{"id":9815,"date":"2024-12-06T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2024-12-06T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:45:01","slug":"which-board-allow-public-comment-article-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=9815","title":{"rendered":"Which Boards Allow Public Comment? Article 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Article 18 which passed on 3\/12\/2024 with a vote of 3,085 for and 1,077 against the article. Article 18 would added public comment to the beginning and end all public meetings in Town.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.png 643w, https:\/\/townunderground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Did the boards and committees in town implement Article 18?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reviewing agendas the implementation of Article 18 is poor at best. Only 3 boards added two sessions for public comment. 13 boards do not allow public comment, or do not have it as part of their agenda. Although Article 18 was amended at the Deliberative Session to be &#8216;Advisory Only&#8217; the residents came out and voted, board committee chairpersons clearly did not listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public Comment Beginning and end of meeting:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/leach-library\/pages\/leach-library-trustees\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/leach-library\/pages\/leach-library-trustees\">Leach Library Trustees<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/senior-resources-committee\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/senior-resources-committee\">Senior Resources Committee<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/londonderry-utilities-committee\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/londonderry-utilities-committee\">Londonderry Utilities Committee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public Comment at Beginning of meeting only<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/beautify-londonderry\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/beautify-londonderry\">Beautify Londonderry<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/budget-committee\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/budget-committee\">Budget Committee<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/master-plan-steering-committee\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/master-plan-steering-committee\">Master Plan Steering Committee<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/lionshall\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/lionshall\">Reverend Morrison Meetinghouse Study Committee<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderry.org\/school-board\/board-members\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderry.org\/school-board\/board-members\">School Board<\/a> &#8211; Public comment floats<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/town-council\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/town-council\">Town Council<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Public Comment at en<\/strong>d of meeting only<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/heritagehistoric-district-commission\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/heritagehistoric-district-commission\">Heritage Commission Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No Public Comment:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/londonderry-arts-council\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/londonderry-arts-council\">Arts Council<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/capital-improvements-program\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/capital-improvements-program\">Capital Improvement Committee<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/cemetery-trustees\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/cemetery-trustees\">Cemetery Meeting Agenda<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/conservation-commission\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/conservation-commission\">Conservation Commission<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/demolition-review-committee\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/demolition-review-committee\">Demolition Review Committee<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/londonderry-housing-and-redevelopment-authority\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/londonderry-housing-and-redevelopment-authority\">Londonderry Housing and Redevelopment Authority<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/londonderry-old-home-day\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/londonderry-old-home-day\">Londonderry Old Home Day<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/planning-board\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/planning-board\">Planning Board<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/recreation-commission\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/recreation-commission\">Recreation Commission<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/supervisors-checklist\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/supervisors-checklist\">Supervisors of the Checklist<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/traffic-safety-committee\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/traffic-safety-committee\">Traffic Safety Committee<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/trustees-trust-fund\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/trustees-trust-fund\">Trustees of the Trust Fund<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/zoning-board-adjustment\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/zoning-board-adjustment\">Zoning Board of Adjustment<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Unknown<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/manchester-airport-authority\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/manchester-airport-authority\">Manchester Airport Authority<\/a> Publishes no information on agenda<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/so-nh-planning-commission\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.londonderrynh.gov\/so-nh-planning-commission\">Southern NH Planning Commission<\/a> Last agenda published was 1\/25\/2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><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=7831\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=7831\">Video: Deliberative Session Article 18 Public Input at Meetings<\/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=8911\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8911\">Articles 17 thru 22, Did You Understand What You Voted For?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=8078\">Unofficial Town and School Election Results, 3\/12\/2024<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article 18 which passed on 3\/12\/2024 with a vote of 3,085 for and 1,077 against the article. Article 18 would added public comment to the beginning and end all public meetings in Town. Did the boards and committees in town implement Article 18? Reviewing agendas the implementation of Article 18&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9815","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\/9815","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=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9824,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions\/9824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}