There are factions who have decided that nothing can be done, that no compromise will work and that committee meetings are the ideal place to air decades old complaints and frustrations. No one is sure why we are there and tries to assume its 1956. Same issues hashed and rehashed. The committee feels they must have the church council approval before they can move ahead with anything. No one is in charge.
People like to hear themselves talk.
People turn a deaf ear to reality. You can see no real reason why you should have given up an evening of doing whatever in order to be here. When a church council or committee bogs down on minute details of a project instead of letting folks working on a project to solve these questions. One item of business is not completed before going on to the next item. So we wallow and wait rather than risk failure or success.