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A census of the attendance blocks of every Board of Finance minutes document in the town's archive. The First Selectman is not listed present at a single Board of Finance meeting from 2015 through 2024, across fifty-two readable meetings in the 2020-2024 stretch alone. He first appears on May 7, 2025, and from October 2025 forward he is present at most meetings, in consecutive months: October 22, November 19 and December 17, 2025, and January 28, February 25, March 24, April 1, May 6 and May 27, 2026. These minutes routinely name non-members in attendance, including the town administrator, the treasurer, the board clerk, Board of Education representatives, and, where applicable, "Public Present: none," which is what makes the earlier absence meaningful. Jeff Maguire has held the office of First Selectman throughout this period; the Board of Selectmen minutes of June 8, 2020 record him calling that meeting to order.