Unpopular opinion, I honestly think a lot of the solutions and ideas shared in these meetings that are just not good ideas and come from bad intentions. People complain about spending and rather than focus on larger solutions and resort to regressive, tax cutting measures as a first course of action because most of the rural communities are struggling and people who have the time to attend are mostly retired. You also find the handful townie business folks that act in a similar fashion, if it benefits them they’re interested, otherwise the same regressive shoot down ideas attitude. Civics overwhelming have been lost, where people actually care about the well being of the community at large and engage with this top of mind rather than looking out for number one. But I guess, bad discussion is better than none at all.