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At the December 12, 2022 Board of Selectmen meeting the town administrator reported an upcoming planning and zoning hearing on "the zone change that will enable a community center to be built on the town's property," and that a surveyor had been researching the town's records and walking the School Road parcel (~39:39). At the January 9, 2023 meeting he reported that the survey was due and that he had filed the statutory 8-24 referral for the community center parcel "on behalf of the board of selectmen, from myself," which the commission approved (~1:45:54, ~1:47:51). Each of these steps was an ordinary, public municipal process. The Board of Education's own account, given the following June, is that its building committee had not met since May 2022, that it had "been in the dark," and that its first notice was a map; the First Selectman said at that meeting that he should have done a better job of inviting a board member onto the committee.