{"id":12389,"date":"2026-06-16T06:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12389"},"modified":"2026-06-16T06:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:02:36","slug":"citizenship-in-the-balance-a-critique-of-council-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12389","title":{"rendered":"Citizenship in the Balance: A Critique of Council Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Town Council Meeting 6\/15\/2026: Resident Sandra Lagueux criticizes the Town Council\u00a0for their inefficiency and lack of transparency. She expresses deep frustration over the\u00a0repeated delays\u00a0in adopting a\u00a0strategic plan, noting that the town is suffering from decades of poor preparation. A major point of contention involves the\u00a0excessive legal fees, which have reportedly gone $80,000 over budget due to frequent inquiries from the\u00a0council chair Ron Dunn and vice chair Shawn Faber. Lagueux condemns the decision to allow those same leaders to act as\u00a0gatekeepers\u00a0for legal requests, calling the move a conflict of interest that lacks\u00a0accountability. Ultimately, Lagueux highlights a growing\u00a0distrust among citizens\u00a0regarding how their tax dollars are managed and how council members interact with one another.<\/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=\"Citizenship in the Balance: A Critique of Council Conduct\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXm8vRu53uE?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>Town Council Meeting 6\/15\/2026: Resident Sandra Lagueux criticizes the Town Council\u00a0for their inefficiency and lack of transparency. She expresses deep frustration over the\u00a0repeated delays\u00a0in adopting a\u00a0strategic plan, noting that the town is suffering from decades of poor preparation. A major point of contention involves the\u00a0excessive legal fees, which have reportedly&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12389","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\/12389","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=12389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12390,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions\/12390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}