The projection had been assuming a one-year windfall arrives every year v15 · current September 20, 2026 The projected FY28 school shortfall is now $930,273, up from $632,876. Nothing about the town’s costs changed and nothing got worse. This site had been assuming the town would keep handing the schools an extra $350,000 every year, for ever, when that money arrives once. If you have quoted a shortfall figure from this site, it has moved. 5 changes ↓
The analyses are on the page that is meant to hold them v14 September 7, 2026 Eight analyses of how the town’s money moves were reachable only from the bar at the top of the screen. The Money page — the page whose whole job is to hand them over — listed five reference documents and none of the analyses. They are on it now. 2 changes ↓
Ask us a question v13 September 7, 2026 There is now a form on this site for asking a question about the town or school budget. A person reads every one. There is no automated answer — a machine-written answer to a budget question is exactly the kind of confident wrong thing this site exists to argue against. 4 changes ↓
The one assumption with nothing behind it now has the town’s own answer v12 September 7, 2026 This projection assumed state aid would grow 2% a year, and nothing anywhere said why. It now grows at 2.75% — the typical year in the town’s own published estimates of that money, across twenty-three budget years. If you have quoted a shortfall figure from this site, the numbers below have moved. 6 changes ↓
Four doors, and eight questions answered one page at a time v11 September 7, 2026 The front page used to be an argument about FY28 with everything else behind it. It is now four doors — the budget crisis, the money, the database, and a door for AI assistants — and behind the money door are eight new pages, each one taking a single question as far as the published records will carry it and then saying where it stops. 9 changes ↓
Every document downloads, including the seven that never could v10 September 5, 2026 Seven documents were listed here and could not be downloaded — six of them annual town reports, the largest 79MB — because they were over the limit our web host allows for a single file. They download now. So do the town’s 1,422 meeting PDFs, which had never had an address at all. 10 changes ↓
What connects the school budget to the town’s books, and what does not v9.3 September 3, 2026 A new analysis sets out what can be followed from what was budgeted to what was spent. Two levels join. The third cannot, by anybody, and the format a report arrives in decides which. 5 changes ↓
The links for machines were at the bottom of the page, where nothing reads v9.2.2 September 3, 2026 v9.1 put every published address into the link graph. It put them in the footer, and the footer of a 250KB page is not delivered to anything that reads a page and stops. They are now the first thing under the header. 5 changes ↓
The minutes search now says how much of the archive it searched v9.2.1 September 3, 2026 v9.2 made the archive searchable. Thirty-nine of its 1,422 documents had no extracted text and so could not be searched, and nothing said so — meaning a search that found nothing could not be told apart from a subject nobody had raised. All 1,422 are now searchable, and the count is published so a null result can be read for what it is. 4 changes ↓
You can now find a word in two years of meetings without downloading them v9.2 September 2, 2026 The archive holds 1,383 agendas and sets of minutes. Until now the only way to search a board was to download the whole board — a megabyte for the two people most often ask about — and there is now a word index that points straight at the documents that mention it. 5 changes ↓
The archive was described to assistants but not linked to them v9.1 September 2, 2026 Every file this site publishes is now reachable by following links from any page. It sounds like nothing and it was the whole reason assistants kept reporting that this site does not hold the meeting minutes. 5 changes ↓
The town’s own ledger, account by account — and a site an agent can use v9 September 2, 2026 The Town Manager sent the FY26 books at account level, the first time this project has held the school department as anything but a single row. Two analyses read it, a data room shows what is still missing, and the whole database is published and queryable. 9 changes ↓
Show your work — every calculation, and every assumption behind it v8 August 30, 2026 A single document sets out how every figure on this site is arrived at, names each one as published, contractual, statutory, measured or ours, and ranks every assumption by how much the answer moves if it is wrong. 7 changes ↓
Free cash — what it is, what it would buy, and what it costs v7 August 30, 2026 The state’s own free cash figures are published, the site can spend them down to any level, and it now shows which capital projects stop when you do. 11 changes ↓
Every public meeting, in full, and a site an assistant can actually use v6 August 30, 2026 Two years of every town board’s agendas and minutes — 1,383 documents across 40 boards — are published as full text. It is where the town argues, and none of it is in a budget document. 4 changes ↓
Every rate now carries the year it applies to v5 August 30, 2026 Athletic fees for FY26 were modelled at $250 when the district had voted $325: a right number from the wrong year. Every fee figure on the site has moved. 5 changes ↓
A ledger, and a site a machine can read v4 August 29, 2026 Three years of the athletics revolving fund’s cashbook arrived from the Town — the first complete years of ledger data this project has held for school money. 4 changes ↓
Special education, separated out and measured v3 August 28, 2026 About a fifth of the school budget was folded in with salaries and escalated at the teachers’ contract rate. It now has its own section and its own measured rate. 6 changes ↓
Every figure is sourced, and every source is published v2 August 28, 2026 Every headline figure now names the document it came from, and that document is here to download. 4 changes ↓
The projection, first published v1 August 27, 2026 The original build: the FY28 gap, the cut cascade, the levers and the override arithmetic. 2 changes ↓