Community leaders will create advisory boards to oversee governmental operations to show their openness to community input. The one thing that many of these boards have is attracting people with special interests. Those same community leaders aren’t smart enough to know what they have done.
It is difficult to direct a governmental operation when your advisory board does not share your vision. The no-kill movement exasperated the problem for animal shelters when their advisory boards were led by animal rights nuts demanding that the shelter meet its 90% live release rate to satisfy the board’s directive to become no-kill.
It is very easy to get onto an advisory board. In most cases, you just express your desire. Since most hard-working people aren’t interested in nightly meetings, special-interest folks will pack the board. Usually, each county commissioner or city council member appoints a person for each board. I witnessed incidents in which members of an animal rights interest would send letters and emails to specific council members to direct their appointee.
Keep in mind, the only purpose for creating advisory boards is to make the commission or council feel better about themselves. They have no idea as to what they have unleashed upon the departments. I have not witnessed many effective boards because most of those boards fail to represent the citizens at large.
School Boards and Animal Shelter Advisory Boards seem to draw the moths of the liberal hivemind to them as an automobile speeding down the highway with its highbeams on.
Imagine being given the task of solving the deer overpopulation in your community and recommending a kill solution. That is going to make your life with the animal rights members of your advisory board difficult. I remember hunting with my father as a child in Utah. That seemed like a good place to move to.