I attended my first-ever City Council meeting earlier this month!
Can you say Mayor Bailey? lol
Although I live in the Dallas-Fort worth metro-plex, I physically live in a very small city so we have our own small city hall, with a Mayor, and once a month they have city council meetings.
It has been on my (what I thought would be a very distant) to-do list to attend one of these to get more involved, and I finally had the time to attend my first time. I attended more readily because my next door neighbor is the mayor and that helped break the ice walking into something completely new - I wasn't alone and sat with his wife.
It was a pretty interesting experience to say the least.
And ironically, it's just like running an Omega Tour! Meet once a month, some people give kudos, some people get upset, issues are looked into or resolved, and it's for the people.
:)