{"id":10657,"date":"2025-05-22T07:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10657"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:14:33","slug":"town-clerk-pay-narrative-responsibility-and-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10657","title":{"rendered":"Town Clerk Pay, Narrative, Responsibility, and Fake News?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Town Council meeting 5\/19\/2025: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Londonderry Town Clerk Sherry Farrell addresses the council, highlighting the\u00a0importance of elected officials maintaining a high standard of conduct at all times\u00a0and the significant\u00a0influence their actions and reported information have on the public. She expresses gratitude to colleagues who spoke in favor of her position&#8217;s value, then shares a story about a resident who misunderstood her compensation based on a newspaper article, revealing how\u00a0incomplete or potentially misleading media coverage can create false narratives and misinform the community. A subsequent speaker challenges a previous statement about the clerk&#8217;s lack of cost of living adjustments, referencing town reports as evidence of annual salary increases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Farrell implied &#8216;Fake News&#8217; by a local paper, which was not named, she herself, also left out key details. Town Councilor, Dan Bouchard, noted that statements made at a prior meeting were incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Town Clerk Pay, Narrative, Responsibility, and Fake News?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvUIMl7QHV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Related Posts:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10635\">Acting Town Manager Recommends Increasing Town Clerks Compensation<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7929\">Town Clerk Compensation, No Answers, just more Questions<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7820\">Town Clerk\u2019s Compensation?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhmunicipal.org\/town-city-article\/legal-qa-municipal-official-vs-municipal-employee-what-difference-does-it-matter\">LEGAL Q&amp;A: Municipal Official vs Municipal Employee: What is the Difference &amp; Does it Matter for Compensation &amp; Personnel Policies?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7936\">Is the Town Withholding Information Prior to an Election?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Council meeting 5\/19\/2025: Londonderry Town Clerk Sherry Farrell addresses the council, highlighting the\u00a0importance of elected officials maintaining a high standard of conduct at all times\u00a0and the significant\u00a0influence their actions and reported information have on the public. She expresses gratitude to colleagues who spoke in favor of her position&#8217;s value,&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10657","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\/10657","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=10657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10658,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657\/revisions\/10658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}