{"id":7686,"date":"2024-01-29T20:41:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2024-01-29T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T02:30:12","slug":"former-town-councilor-suggests-retracting-public-comment-at-council-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7686","title":{"rendered":"Former Town Councilor Suggests Restricting Public Comment at Council Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Town Councilor and current State Representative Tom Dolan has recommended restricting public comment at future meetings. In Dolans opinion residents are invited guest to observe the council performing Town business. Dolan has recommended that future meetings only allows comments on agenda items. So if the Town Council chooses not to post an agenda item, residents would be barred from speaking. Planning Board member Ann Chiampa disagreed.<\/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=\"Former Town Councilor and State Rep Tom Dolan suggests Limiting Public Comment\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MJJUBWl2atw?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>Former Town Councilor and current State Representative Tom Dolan has recommended restricting public comment at future meetings. In Dolans opinion residents are invited guest to observe the council performing Town business. Dolan has recommended that future meetings only allows comments on agenda items. So if the Town Council chooses not&#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-7686","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\/7686","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=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7693,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}