The public records cited in this section, in the order they appear: the minutes, packets and recordings of Andover's own meetings.
At the January 12, 2026 Board of Selectmen meeting the board reviewed the contracting of the elementary school's bathroom renovation. The project had been expected to go out to a competitive request for proposals, but had become a design-build arrangement in which the school's engineering firm sought to act as general contractor and roll the trades into a single bid (~36:33, ~1:04:41). The school board's dedicated bathroom committee meeting of January 5, 2026 records the project's origin, a leak in May 2024 that proved to be a larger drainage failure, and the move to seek additional contractor bids.
At the October 9, 2025 Board of Education meeting First Selectman Jeff Maguire questioned the selection of the general contractor for the bathroom renovation. After the superintendent reported that the school's engineering firm, in a design-build arrangement, had recommended a general contractor with identified subcontractors, he pressed that the board had announced a general contractor with no cost figures attached: "if you're announcing the general contractor... What's the number? And you're all telling me we have no number." He argued that the town's prior capital projects had been managed by the town administrator, and that the boards should work together and use the expertise available.
At the December 17, 2025 Board of Finance meeting First Selectman Jeff Maguire questioned the bathroom-renovation spending and the process behind it, saying he would support the project but had "a problem with how we've been doing things." He challenged whether the work was needed at the school's current enrollment, and tied it to his objection that the school's unexpended funds had been moved into the capital fund without selectmen or capital-committee oversight. The finance board chair, Robert England, responded that the board weighs the whole town's needs and that he himself sits on the capital improvement committee.