FredrickJones

In small towns sure everybody may know your name, but this is not Mayberry and never will be.
Mayberry was a fictional town with script writers that dictated everything that happened on the set, and to trying use Mayberry as example would turn a town from democracy into dictatorship.
The town counsel if want to call it that, does not care about the town as a whole but only their little piece of it (aka their property) and village ordinances does not bother the members of counsel they do what they please but if you go against the ordinances they'll be down on you in a heart beat, they don't like plow roads in the winter because it will wear out their plow. But they raise the water rates so they can buy a new truck, but will not maintain the roads with it.
Don't even waste time going to counsel meeting they will flat out pay no attention or look at you while you presenting a opposition. What needs to happen counsel needs to be replaced by people who more interested in the whole town.