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Two weeks after the December 4 tri-board meeting, the Board of Finance adopted a usage policy for the AES Capital Fund. The fund is held on the town's books: the town "may choose to deposit money into this Capital fund through its budget process" (it put in $100,000 that year, the first), and the Board of Education "may also choose to deposit money from its budget," meaning its post-audit surplus, with all money in the fund to be spent on capital projects for the elementary school (~53:19-55:24). The policy was adopted subject to the school board's review and feedback (~63:54). Board members explained the fund's origin: the school, unlike the regional district, had never historically had a capital budget of its own, so its only vehicle to save for capital was its 2 percent non-lapsing account (~39:29).