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At the March 11, 2026 Board of Finance budget meeting the preschool was discussed at length. One member said she had "questions about the fact that we have no idea how much the taxpayers are paying for preschool," and that out-of-town families "are not coming here for any other reason" than the full-day preschool and its wraparound care (~2:11:36-2:13:24). Another member set out the empty-seat logic unprompted: "when you put together a preschool class, you look at how many Andover kids there are, and then you sprinkle in out of town kids to fill that room." The First Selectman was not the speaker on either side of this exchange.