[Foundation-l] A train without destination?

[Thomas Dalton]

>  A
>  preliminary council that is allowed to define its powers itself will risk
>  not to find many supporters in the community.

The preliminary council will be made up of members of the community
with the explicit plan to have the main council elected by the
community. If the powers it ends up having aren't popular, people will
elect councillors who will change those powers (or disband the council
if the powers can't be changed to what the community want).

> What is the need of an
>  advisory council if the Board does not has to accept the "advice"?

Firstly, if the board members are even marginally competent (and the
evidence is that they are), they will listen to the advise of the
community (through the council) whether they have to or not. Secondly,
there is quite a lot of support for the council having the ability to
make binding decisions and not be purely advisory.