{"id":11255,"date":"2026-01-14T17:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11255"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:38:43","slug":"town-councilor-dan-bouchard-addresses-town-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11255","title":{"rendered":"Town Councilor Dan Bouchard Addresses Town Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Town Councilor Dan Bouchard\u00a0addresses the public to defend the\u00a0Town Manager\u00a0and the professional staff of\u00a0Londonderry\u00a0against recent political attacks and criticism. He emphasizes that the\u00a0Town Charter\u00a0grants the manager specific authority over\u00a0employee compensation\u00a0and administrative decisions, arguing that these actions have been lawful and necessary to remain\u00a0competitive. Bouchard expresses frustration with a lack of\u00a0unified council direction\u00a0and calls for an investigation into confidential information leaked from\u00a0non-public sessions. Throughout his remarks, he praises the manager&#8217;s\u00a0transparency and proactive leadership, specifically regarding the hiring of a new\u00a0fire chief\u00a0and long-term infrastructure planning. Ultimately, the councilor urges the community to move past\u00a0political hostility\u00a0to support a stable and effective local government.<\/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 Councilor Dan Bouchard Addresses Town Residents\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cOrCErhbP0Y?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Councilor Dan Bouchard\u00a0addresses the public to defend the\u00a0Town Manager\u00a0and the professional staff of\u00a0Londonderry\u00a0against recent political attacks and criticism. He emphasizes that the\u00a0Town Charter\u00a0grants the manager specific authority over\u00a0employee compensation\u00a0and administrative decisions, arguing that these actions have been lawful and necessary to remain\u00a0competitive. Bouchard expresses frustration with a lack of\u00a0unified&#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-11255","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\/11255","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=11255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11256,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255\/revisions\/11256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}