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Across the June 9 and June 12, 2025 Board of Selectmen meetings, First Selectman Jeff Maguire challenged the Board of Finance's authority to move the school's unexpended year-end appropriation into the AES capital fund, arguing the transfer was done incorrectly and should require a town-meeting vote. He restated his framing that the school is town property: "The school building is a town asset. The town hall is a town asset. The community center is a town asset," and that the capital fund "is a town account, not a board of education account." The superintendent objected on the record ("respectfully, Mr. Maguire, you're offering some misinformation... we have a good auditor who has done right by this town"). The town's auditor subsequently found no impropriety in the transfer. On June 12 the board voted to set a town meeting on the question.