council already IS merged into both HiFo and MCeV. For HiFo we even had a referendum adjusting rules between maemo council and HiFo council so that after that (and two councilors stepping down since they were no member of "both councils") the council could legally declare it's ONE council now and obeys both rulesets (which were identical in that moment) The rest of HiFo bylaws had no rules conflicting with those council rules (obviously since otherwise the HiFo rules would have been self-contradicting) - but then HiFo also had no GA that allegedly is allowed to change council rules with 2/3 majority. For MCeV the maemo council got "elected" to be the MCeV council. Nevertheless the council is bound to all three rulesets, it cannot cherrypick. When MCeV bylaws have rules that are conflicting with council rules, then MCeV has a massive problem. And HiFo has a massive problem with handing over assets to MCeV, since that could create liabilities which I myself want to steer clear of as far as possible. So we now have one council with three "jobs"

The ONLY point of discussion is that some funny people think we should abolish it now, while most think council has no voice and BoD should ignore it. (well, a further point of discussion is the new GA/regular members creating exactly this "we, the new leete community, and they the old obsolete lazy zombies" mentalilty.