2025-2026 Grand Jury Report - Montague: A City In Chaos

The jury investigates city organization, overlapping elected/fire roles, training, personnel complaints, contracts, public resources, privacy and council vacancies. Its assertions of legal violations, incompatible offices, ineffective advice and possible perjury remain attributed allegations/conclusions, not independent legal or criminal findings. Seventeen findings and seventeen recommendations are interleaved on physical PDF pages 14–19; page 20 identifies Council, City Administration and Fire Department respondents. Preserve source wording, including F7’s internally inconsistent “did step down” and R14’s “victims of are”; do not silently resolve them. No verified final response is among supplied sources; that gap establishes neither nonresponse nor timeliness. Entire unchanged 21-page original, including legal-authority appendix.