[Madhatter]

Well your council has a very strange negative way of working in my opinion. A group should be independent and work together with the council, not be run by the council. You can say an independent group can be blocked by the council, but a group run by the council is a waste of time because only ideas that they will agree with will get discussed and put into action. A member of the council can be on it as a representative of the council if it's voted for them to be by the council, or they can be individuals. but as far as I know councils and councilors shouldn't be putting themselves on committees, or starting them, it starts allegations such as corruption and wasting taxpayers money.