{"id":8898,"date":"2024-06-19T06:59:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2024-06-19T06:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:59:19","slug":"article-22-discussion-not-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8898","title":{"rendered":"Article 22 &#8216;Discussion&#8217; Not Needed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Town Council Chairman briefly addressed Article 22 at the 6\/17\/2024 meeting. The Town Council Chairman, Chad Franz, stated he did not put the item on the initial agenda that was published on 6\/14\/2024. The reason given was that the petitioner stated previously that they would begin gathering signatures to put the question on the ballot a second time next March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Councilor Farrell gave a number of legal definitions, one of which was &#8216;advisory non-binding&#8217; &#8216;Not necessary to obey or follow&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If these &#8216;discussion&#8217; session were for people to better understand the articles, why did the chair initially opt not to discuss the article?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those of you who have followed along, it seems clear that the majority of the Town Council is not interested in moving any these warrant articles forward. The council has held their &#8216;discussions&#8217; it will be interesting to see if any of these article are addressed in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Town Council Chairman has yet to answer if he will support two sessions of public comment at the meeting he runs and sets the agenda. I think  we know the answer.<\/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=\"Article 22 Discussion\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q5otX5_jNHs?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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8796\">Londonderry Times: Ethics in Government: Charting the Right Course<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8845\">Planning Board Member, Lynn Wiles Responds to the Londonderry Times Editorial \u2013 Ethics in Government: Charting the Right Course<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8587\">Why is the Town Council Chairman Asking Why?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8772\">Town Council Discusses Article 20, Recording Public Meetings<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8641\">Town Council Discusses Article 19, Committees and board shall meet at a time best for the general population<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8657\">Are 80 to 99% of Town Meetings Recorded?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8775\">How Do You Open The Charter to Implement Article 17 and 22?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8427\">Town Council Discusses Article 18 Public Comment at All Meetings<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8347\">Town Council Discusses Article 17 \u201cShould the Planning board Be Elected\u201d 4\/22\/2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Town Council Chairman briefly addressed Article 22 at the 6\/17\/2024 meeting. The Town Council Chairman, Chad Franz, stated he did not put the item on the initial agenda that was published on 6\/14\/2024. The reason given was that the petitioner stated previously that they would begin gathering signatures to&#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-8898","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\/8898","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=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8899,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}