The challenge is to be able to remain undecided for as long as possible. You make the decision at the end. That's the way you bought that car. That's the way you make tough decisions, waiting until you've learned everything you need to know and have time to sift it and apply it. That's called deliberation.
Deliberation is an essentially mysterious process.
It is exempt from the open meeting law, to allow boards to meet and talk about decisions without worrying about the formalities of public notice and minutes. They need time alone to think, and the law sanctions it. Ideally, the board takes a two-step process to reach its decision. First it makes findings of fact. That's cold, hard numbers, shapes, values, taken from the evidence.