{"id":13472,"date":"2026-11-08T06:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T11:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=13472"},"modified":"2026-11-08T06:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T11:38:30","slug":"councilor-bouchard-questions-role-of-the-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=13472","title":{"rendered":"Councilor Bouchard Questions Role of the Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11\/2\/2026 &#8211; Councilor Dan Bouchard fiercely criticizes the Chairman Ron Dunn\u2019s leadership, accusing him of overstepping his official authority and violating local governance rules. Bouchard highlights several alleged infractions, including unauthorized financial compensation given to the acting town manager and police chief, as well as deceptive practices regarding closed-door legal meetings and report disclosures. The heated exchange exposes deep political divisions among the elected officials regarding transparency, spending, and adherence to the town charter. As other council members chime in to debate procedural rules and past investigations, the atmosphere grows increasingly contentious and chaotic. Ultimately, the session underscores a severe breakdown in communication and trust within the town council leadership.<\/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=\"Councilor Bouchard Questions Role of the Chairman\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o5SuXVfEzP4?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>11\/2\/2026 &#8211; Councilor Dan Bouchard fiercely criticizes the Chairman Ron Dunn\u2019s leadership, accusing him of overstepping his official authority and violating local governance rules. Bouchard highlights several alleged infractions, including unauthorized financial compensation given to the acting town manager and police chief, as well as deceptive practices regarding closed-door legal&#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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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-13472","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\/13472","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=13472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13485,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472\/revisions\/13485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}