Heh, the town meeting in the movie Jaws is ample illustration of how it would descend into an exercise in herding cats…
I find the cultural mirror of that movie to be most entertaining…even some 35+ years later!
Oops, 45+years later!
Having worked in public sevice for 30 years, Jaws is a perfect case study of the problems with city government. A political motivated mayor, refusing to listen to logic, who throws his police chief under the bus for trying to do the job he was hored to do