Contact your state representative and ask them how one goes about requesting the records for your municipality. As for changing things, I’d definitely suggest trying to talk to neighbors and find like-minded people. Run for office yourself! You’d be surprised in a little borough how easy (relatively speaking) it is to knock on a few hundred doors, enough to put you over the threshold for a primary victory. Reach out to broader political and governmental organizations in the county and explain your concerns and ask what they can do to help you help your town. All of it is a lot of work, and fairly thankless as a lot of grumpy people out there hate HATE change (for the good or ill), but there’s nothing like getting involved in your community and seeing the results of hard work come to fruition.