{"id":13059,"date":"2026-10-06T19:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:18:27","slug":"town-council-meeting-10-5-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=13059","title":{"rendered":"Town Council Meeting, 10\/5\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Town Council Meeting on 10\/5\/2026 captures significant community tension regarding the sudden and opaque termination of the town manager, with residents and council members clashing over financial transparency, the hiring of outside legal counsel, and the governance process. Acting Town Manager and Police Chief Bernard provides updates on municipal operations, while citizens express deep frustration over a lack of communication, rising legal and project costs, and the implementation of state zoning and water assessment changes. Additionally, community members celebrate successful local events like the Senior Expo and the reopening of the library, even as the board struggles with internal division, procedural rules, and public accountability.<\/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, 10\/5\/2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EJjMLqxcD9Y?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 on 10\/5\/2026 captures significant community tension regarding the sudden and opaque termination of the town manager, with residents and council members clashing over financial transparency, the hiring of outside legal counsel, and the governance process. Acting Town Manager and Police Chief Bernard provides updates on municipal operations,&#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-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059","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=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13060,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions\/13060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}