{"id":10815,"date":"2025-07-12T08:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10815"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:35:45","slug":"appointment-of-assistant-town-treasurer-delayed-by-councilor-bouchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10815","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Assistant Town Treasurer Delayed By Councilor Bouchard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A tense discussion\u00a0regarding the\u00a0appointment of a Deputy Town Treasurer at the 7\/7\/2025 Council meeting. The current Treasurer, Tom Dolan, proposes former Town Councilor John Farrell, highlighting his\u00a0selfless community service\u00a0and\u00a0relevant experience. However, Town Councilor Dan Bouchard objects, citing a lack of prior information and ongoing investigations involving the proposed candidate, ultimately invoking\u00a0council privilege to delay the vote. A former Town Treasurer, Kath Wagner, then interjects, clarifying that the\u00a0Treasurer holds the authority to appoint\u00a0their deputy as a courtesy notification to the council, not requiring a formal vote, and expresses\u00a0disappointment in the council&#8217;s contentious behavior. The conversation underscores the\u00a0friction between the Treasurer&#8217;s prerogative and council oversight\u00a0in this appointment process.<\/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=\"Appointment of Assistant Town Treasurer Delayed By Councilor Bouchard\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wkqQ137NrB0?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><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10706\">Video: Code of Ethics &amp; Town Charter Complaints Addressed, 6\/2\/2025<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10699\">Code of Ethics &amp; Town Charter Complaints Filed<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tense discussion\u00a0regarding the\u00a0appointment of a Deputy Town Treasurer at the 7\/7\/2025 Council meeting. The current Treasurer, Tom Dolan, proposes former Town Councilor John Farrell, highlighting his\u00a0selfless community service\u00a0and\u00a0relevant experience. However, Town Councilor Dan Bouchard objects, citing a lack of prior information and ongoing investigations involving the proposed candidate, ultimately&#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-10815","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\/10815","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=10815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10816,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815\/revisions\/10816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}