Andover, Connecticut
Longstanding reference works and archives that don't fit the report or charter-guide format but are part of the same project.
Small utilities and machine-readable data files — the sort of thing that's handy to have but doesn't fit the report or archive format. First up: the town's budget, hand-rebuilt from its published PDF into a working spreadsheet you can actually sort and total. Offered as a convenience, with a plain warning that it's one resident's transcription and may contain errors.
Recordings of public meetings — Selectmen, Board of Finance, Board of Education, and others — collected in one place and indexed by date and body, most with searchable, timestamped transcripts. A useful supplement to the official meeting minutes when the precise wording or tone of a discussion matters.
An anonymous flyer was distributed with the May 2, 2025 Rivereast News Bulletin in advance of the town budget referendum. It contained a number of factual errors and several claims that were not merely wrong but defamatory; published without attribution, it could not be answered through ordinary channels. The budget failed narrowly at that referendum, and the Board of Finance subsequently scaled back the Board of Education request.
This site is a structured response. It reproduces the flyer page-by-page and walks through the specific claims under an Issues section, citing the underlying records that contradict each one. Compiled by Scott Sauyet with help from others.