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At the March 27, 2024 Board of Finance meeting the town administrator recounted the mechanics of the school's parking-lot money. He said that when the school wanted to do the parking lot the previous summer, what was agreed was that it transfer a check; that the town requested $130,000; that the school "originally wrote a check for like 124... which they then took back because they didn't actually have 124 to write"; and that the final figure was about $112,000 (~2:58). Board members confirmed the arrangement: the school transfers the money to the town, into the town-held capital account, with the town's $100,000 budget contribution added to it, because, as one member put it, the town "controls the account" (~5:55). Later in the meeting the board discussed the school's plumbing failure -- seventy-year-old cast iron pipe, three unusable bathrooms -- and concluded it was significantly more expensive and much more pressing than a parking lot, so it moved to first priority.