Read the passage. The political science passage first diagnoses why town halls attract the same small group of residents. Meetings are long, formal, and scheduled when many workers cannot attend. The proposed remedy is not to abandon meetings but to multiply the ways residents can speak before decisions are final. The passage then describes surveys, rotating meeting times, and neighborhood listening sessions. Which option best explains the sentence-level purpose of "The proposed remedy is not to abandon meetings but to multiply the ways residents can speak before decisions are final."?