The public records cited in this section, in the order they appear: the minutes, packets and recordings of Andover's own meetings.
The posted agenda for the regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen on Monday, July 13, 2026. The most prominent items were the appointments of new selectmen to replace Carol Lee and Jeff Murray. But also on the agenda: "Discussion and Action on AES Operating Budget Funding Procedure."
A request for records under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, submitted to the Town of Andover on July 13, 2026, seeking all documents and communications "concerning any proposed, contemplated, or implemented change to the method, schedule, or amount by which the Town funds the Andover Elementary School operating budget or the Andover Public School Operating Account." The Town's records response of July 16, 2026 is at https://andoverct.info/reference/docs/records-production-2026-07-16.pdf.
The recording of the Board of Selectmen's July 13, 2026 meeting. At about 7:03 the First Selectman moves to delete the item "Discussion and Action on AES Operating Budget Funding Procedure" from the agenda, and the meeting proceeds without it.
The official results, as posted by the town, of the June 16, 2026 referendum. The elementary school's budget, reduced to a 6.0% increase, passed, 420 YES to 317 NO. The RHAM operating budget passed, 479 to 252, and passed region-wide. This is the vote that settled the budget the school operates under in FY 2026-2027.
The recording of the July 23, 2025 Board of Finance meeting, at which the board took up the elementary school's levy schedule (agenda item four, ~2:35) and adopted it unanimously (~16:36). The finance officer explained the board's practice: the district does not submit a broken-out schedule the way the regional district does, so the board divides the appropriation into equal monthly payments. Asked "Has it always been 10?", the answer on the record was that this is "only the third year we did this, because before that we just paid their expenses directly. We had a combined checking account" (~3:40). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KKKZq0tsr4
The minutes of the July 23, 2025 Board of Finance meeting, carried in the following month's packet, record the item as "Levy Schedule for AES Payments -- proposed schedule provided in packet, 10 equal payments from July to April." The motion to accept the schedule as presented was made by board chair Robert England, seconded, and carried 7-0-0. It is the vote behind the schedule and figures in the July 23 packet.
The July 1, 2026, 11:02 AM email from First Selectman Jeff Maguire to Board of Education chair Caitlin Greenhouse, copied to Board of Finance chair Robert England and blind-copied to the Town Treasurer and the Town Administrator, announcing that effective July 1, 2026 the Town would be implementing a revised funding process for the AES operating budget. States its purposes as strengthening cash management, maximizing the investment of Town funds, and eliminating reconciliation issues identified during the Town's annual audit. States that the Town "has deposited" $100,000 into the Andover Public School Operating Account (M&T Bank, account number redacted), effective July 2, 2026, to initiate the new process, and sets out the replacement mechanism: the AES business manager submits weekly check registers and payroll registers, reviewed and approved, to the Town Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer and Town Administrator; the Town then transfers funds equal to the approved disbursements; the business manager prepares a monthly reconciliation; and the Treasurer ensures cumulative funding does not exceed the approved operating budget. Produced in the Town's July 16, 2026 records response, production pages 12-13.
The correspondence, from the Town's July 16, 2026 records response, that establishes in writing that no board voted on the funding change. June 22: the First Selectman sends both board chairs a written "Proposed AES Operating Account Structure" -- the same account, the same weekly registers (pp. 6-7). June 23: BOE chair Caitlin Greenhouse declines in writing; the board is "likely not interested in pursuing this proposal at this time," and she will share it with the full board (pp. 8-9). June 24: he forwards the proposal to all six Board of Finance members "so that we can have a discussion" (pp. 10-11); no meeting of any board takes it up. July 1, hours after the announcement: the chair replies that no responsibility of a First Selectman allows this "without BOF, BOS and BOE approval," that AES should have received one tenth of its operating budget that day, and that the board has reached out to its attorney (pp. 14-15). July 2: BOF chair Robert England: "It is very unclear to me that this is right and proper. First, did the BOS vote on this? The BOF certainly didn't," quoting and attaching the July 23, 2025 minutes of the 7-0 levy-schedule vote (pp. 27-30). July 3: Selectman Anne Creme: she does "not agree," a change "would require a discussion and vote by the Board of Finance and the Board of Education," "The BOS has not discussed or voted on this new process," and "I think you overstepped your role" (p. 31). July 6: the First Selectman himself, in writing: "The Board of Selectmen has not yet voted on this procedural change... Until such time, I am responsible for implementing this change" (p. 38) -- while, the same morning, the change has become "the proposed funding procedure," which the full Board of Selectmen "will have the opportunity to discuss, modify, or affirm" at its July 13 meeting (pp. 32-37).