Nobody gets their shit together until there's an existential threat. That's just how local government works. The system is biased toward the status quo and in

Nobody gets their shit together until there's an existential threat. That's just how local government works. The system is biased toward the status quo and inaction (by design, this is not a bad thing). You really need a super-majority of the population to want something before the politicians can actually do that thing. Expect them to keep squeezing until politicians start losing elections because of it.