{"id":11397,"date":"2026-02-18T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:17:07","slug":"councilor-fabers-purchasing-policy-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11397","title":{"rendered":"Video: Councilor Faber&#8217;s Purchasing Policy Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Londonderry Town Council\u00a0meeting on 2\/17\/2026 regarding a proposed update to the municipal\u00a0purchasing policy, proposed by Councilor Shawn Faber. Councilor Dan Bouchard argued that the new regulations are\u00a0untested, lack necessary\u00a0staff input, and fail to meet modern\u00a0legal standards\u00a0for federal grants and ethics. Councilor Deb Paul explicitly characterizes the proposal as a\u00a0personal attack\u00a0on her business interests rather than a legitimate policy improvement. Critics of the measure emphasize that the\u00a0Town Manager\u00a0did not initiate this draft and suggests it bypasses the standard\u00a0methodical review process. Despite a formal motion by Councilor Ted Combes to rescind the existing 2013 policy in favor of the new version, the\u00a0council vote fails, leaving the outdated regulations in place for further revision. Councilor Ron Dunn and Ted Combes voted in favor of the policy Councilor Deb Paul and Dan Bouchard were opposed. Councilor Shawn Faber did not attend the meeting.<\/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=\"TC 02 17 2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4kX4Pd24plU?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Londonderry Town Council\u00a0meeting on 2\/17\/2026 regarding a proposed update to the municipal\u00a0purchasing policy, proposed by Councilor Shawn Faber. Councilor Dan Bouchard argued that the new regulations are\u00a0untested, lack necessary\u00a0staff input, and fail to meet modern\u00a0legal standards\u00a0for federal grants and ethics. Councilor Deb Paul explicitly characterizes the proposal as a\u00a0personal attack\u00a0on&#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-11397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397","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=11397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11401,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11397\/revisions\/11401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}