{"id":10347,"date":"2025-03-06T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2025-03-06T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T00:44:08","slug":"town-council-candidate-deb-paul-on-public-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10347","title":{"rendered":"Town Council Candidate Deb Paul on Public Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Submitted by Town Council Candidate Deb Paul<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If elected, one of the things I would like to be able to do would be to help move forward the ability for the public to make comments at the beginning and end of all meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would also be more than happy to answer any questions raised during public comment at the Town Council meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I brought forth a Warrant Article addressing this issue in the 2024 Election and despite an overwhelmingly favorable vote the current Town Council chose to ignore it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If someone takes the time to go to a meeting they should be able to speak at any point during the meeting with questions. They should have the ability to raise a hand and be allowed to speak, within reason, and have concerns addressed. This may make meetings take a bit longer but I feel it is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Town Council Candidate Deb Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Town Council Candidate Deb Paul If elected, one of the things I would like to be able to do would be to help move forward the ability for the public to make comments at the beginning and end of all meetings. I would also be more than happy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}