What rights are they losing?
You know, the opposite of a very few deciding without paying attention to the many that stood outside locked doors in the cold.
If they didn't listen, it wasn't for lack of physically hearing the arguments and seeing significant support.
There's the lack of a specific community vote on a large decisive issue affecting the entire town and utility availability and prices for at least a decade.
For small towns such things are over and above the usual day to day of town council business and often warrant a community referendum and some time spent on presenting options.
But specifically in terms of how much representation they allowed at the meetings, I give them a C.
Every person with an opinion doesn't deserve to have it heard frankly