Church's new structure faulty?

Not so long ago, we blindly approved a change in the church governance that basically put the power to make decisions in fewer hands. For example, we agreed that no longer would the congregation vote on the annual budget, a decision that may come back to haunt us in the coming weeks.
What's interesting about the change is that it may actually have created the crisis we are in today.
Where we used to have a number of committees that handle different aspects of the church, not always coherently, we now rely on our ministers, our staff and the Policy Board to a much, much greater degree.
And look what's happened.
One overlooked problem is that in wiping out so many committees, we also eliminated all sorts of opportunities for members to be involved in their church. That disconnectedness has, I'm sure, helped spur some to leave, reduce pledges or shrink away from active participation in our communal life.
This is, yet again, an indication that it's not finances at the root of the crisis. It's something deeper than that.
In our quest for a better way to run the church, we seem to have put ourselves in a hole.
Maybe one solution is to restore the old governing structure, at least in part, so that more of us are intimately involved in the decisions that ultimately define our church.