{"id":11399,"date":"2026-02-18T20:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11399"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:14:39","slug":"video-town-council-meeting-2-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=11399","title":{"rendered":"Video: Town Council Meeting, 2\/17\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Londonderry Town Council meeting\u00a0held on February 17, 2026, which covers several municipal transitions and community updates. A primary focus of the session is the\u00a0introduction of James Young Jr.\u00a0as the new fire chief and the formal recognition of\u00a0Deputy Chief Phil LeBlanc\u00a0for his interim leadership. The council also celebrates the latest graduates of the\u00a0Leadership Londonderry program\u00a0and reviews a new\u00a0Community Choice Aggregation\u00a0initiative aimed at reducing electricity costs for residents. Significant debate occurs regarding a proposed\u00a0purchasing policy, with members expressing concerns over administrative vetting and potential personal conflicts. Additionally, the\u00a0Town Manager\u00a0submits a formal memorandum into the record to clarify the workload and staffing needs of the\u00a0Human Resources department\u00a0following comments made at a previous deliberative session. The meeting concludes with updates on the\u00a02026 Master Plan\u00a0and the approval of funding for\u00a0winter road maintenance.<\/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 Council Meeting, 2\/17\/2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rN_Dsj68PMg?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 meeting\u00a0held on February 17, 2026, which covers several municipal transitions and community updates. A primary focus of the session is the\u00a0introduction of James Young Jr.\u00a0as the new fire chief and the formal recognition of\u00a0Deputy Chief Phil LeBlanc\u00a0for his interim leadership. The council also celebrates the latest graduates&#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-11399","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\/11399","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=11399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11400,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11399\/revisions\/11400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}