The Eagle-Tribune published a story Monday asking North Andover, Mass. school and town officials about whether they were concerned about their new superintendent and business administrator leaving a $3.3 million shortfall in their previous school district.

The short answer? No.

“It doesn’t seem applicable to our situation here,” Town Manager Mark Rees told the Eagle-Tribune. “I’ve had conversations with (Christopher Hottel). I think whatever occurred in Nashua will not reoccur here.”

Hottel, Nashua’s former superintendent, and Jim Mealey, the district’s former chief operating officer, both left for similar jobs in North Andover this summer. It was shortly after they left that school officials in Nashua discovered that the district had overspent its budget by $3.3 million last year.

There is also a projected $3 million shortfall for this year.

In a written statement to the Eagle-Tribune, Hottel again pointed to the “antiquated” accounting system used by the city. Hottel told the paper it would not happen in North Andover since the town’s budgeting software is much more advanced and “state-of-the-art.”

“There are protocols and procedures in place to prevent reporting errors of the type Nashua has experienced,” Hottel said in his statement. “All users of the financial and accounting software … are thoroughly trained in the use of the system.”

School Committee Chairman Stanley Limpert told the Eagle-Tribune that the committee was not alarmed by the news since Hottel’s explanation seemed logical.

“It seemed all pretty straightforward,” Limpert said. “We have a brand new accounting system, only a couple years old. It seems like a different situation than here.”

“There is all kinds of new transparency of where the money is going that wasn’t there before,” Limpert said of the town’s new accounting system. “We’re doing very well.”