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At the October 12, 2023 joint meeting of the three boards, a moderator asked the Board of Education directly whether the town had interfered in the application of its role. The board answered: "We were not able to get a permit to pave our upper parking lot over the summer, and therefore it is still sitting unpaved and dangerous for people to walk on," and "we were told about four different reasons for why we were not able to have that permit before we finally gave [in to] an agreement that we would give the money to the town" (~1:04:37-1:04:57). The town's answer, from the First Selectman: the town had not interfered on an operational level, and the issue was "the fact that we did not acquiesce [to] the way that you want to do a capital improvement project" (~1:06:59). He said the only condition requested was that public works and the town administrator create specifications so the job was done correctly, "that's what you and your board failed to do when you went around the [proper] process" (~1:39:25). The town administrator then set out the engineering substance behind the conditions.