I am involved with our local water board and we meet each month, usually on the last Sunday evening.
This is one aspect of small town living that I dearly love - we spent 12 minutes on the meeting, called it closed and then spent the next 40 minutes gossiping about stuff in town. A person and a vehicle that are doing opportunistic robberies, fund raising for a new local park, the cougar that has been sighted, the new logging operation going on, people's schedules for the summer, etc...
Rural America has such a different pulse and set of values than urban America.
Fun stuff!