We often have skilled people show up at town meetings. Often their good suggestions get ignored and sometimes resented.
If your town has its own genuine/trained engineer, you are way ahead of any of the small towns I own homes in.
I've got three places in rural New York and one in northern Michigan. Otsego, Hamilton, and Jefferson Counties NY and Presque Isle county,MI. In all, the town planning board is an advisory board only (no enforcement capabilities). Also none of the town board members or planning board members get any special training, nor do they have to know anything to become a member. Just recquires being appointed or elected. Most know little about the laws they sometimes enforce on an ad hoc basis.
Only person in any of the town governments that gets some training AFTER being elected, is the town highway supervisor, constable, and judge. We just had a new town clerk get removed because he screwed the books up so badly. His defense?? He claimed nobody gave him any training. My question is . . . if he didn't know how to do the job, why the heck did he run for the office??
I was a town board member for a few years. A pure exercise in futility. Many members wanted to make decisions based on who they knew and liked, not on the laws that exisited. I suspect that happens a bit in bigger governments also.
My wife's parents live in the somewhat rural city/town of Alpena in northern MI. There it's totally different. Everybody on the board seems dilligent and genuinely concerned about the public good. So, I guess it does exist in some places.
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