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At the May 14, 2025 Board of Education meeting the superintendent gave a detailed public account of how the elementary school receives and spends its money, in response to a newspaper insert that had made claims about the school's finances. She said the school's separate bank account and monthly allowance were established at the First Selectman's request: he asked her to open a separate account for the school, and the town would give it an allowance, as it does for the regional district (~20:47). She described the mechanics as an electronic transfer of about $434,000 in ten payments, July through April, with none in May or June. In the same meeting she set out the preschool's out-of-town admissions logic: a room the school is running anyway has empty seats, an out-of-town child cannot be placed here for special education, and such a child pays full tuition (~1:24:32).