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A single-page letter mailed to every Andover address, arriving May 20, 2026, six days before the second budget referendum. It opens with a personal introduction: twenty-five years in Andover, a University of Connecticut accounting degree and CPA, a wife who taught public school for twenty-four years and served on the Andover Board of Education, children through the local schools. It states that in roughly twenty-five town budget referendums he had voted against only one school budget before last year, and that he voted NO last year and intends to again. It sets the FY 2026-2027 proposed budget ($5,013,651) against FY 2023-2024 audited expenses ($3,789,152), a $1,224,499 increase, against a K-6 enrollment rise of 15 students, and derives approximately $81,633 per additional student. It urges a NO vote on May 26. Signed Jeffrey J Maguire, with "Paid For by Jeffery J Maguire" at the foot. Nothing on the letter identifies the writer as First Selectman.
