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At the June 12, 2023 Board of Selectmen meeting, with members of the school board and the superintendent present, the selectmen took up a list of safety and deed concerns the Board of Education had submitted about the community and senior center being built on the elementary school grounds. First Selectman Jeff Maguire, presiding, treated the concerns as matters for the architect, builder, engineer and fire marshal rather than for the board, and the project moved forward. He stated that the school building is "a town asset" and that "it's all the same pot of funds -- the school is town money, the roads are town money, the parking lot is town money" (~14:46). At the same meeting the board voted 4-0 to establish a separate AES Capital Fund. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-u_Seb_VrE