# \[ELECTION CLOSED\] Index Council V2: Nomination Thread and Process

**URL:** <https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/election-closed-index-council-v2-nomination-thread-and-process/4040>\
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**Created:** [21 March 2022 19:58 UTC](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/election-closed-index-council-v2-nomination-thread-and-process/4040 "2022-03-21T19:58:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [21 March 2022 21:36 UTC](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/election-closed-index-council-v2-nomination-thread-and-process/4040/10 "2022-03-21T21:36:54Z")

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> [@Matthew\_Graham](#):
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> Further to the above, I think 7 people is too many. There are several long serving members of the community who favour a smaller group and there is intent from a founder to move to a more CEO led organisational structure. I believe it would be a mistake to repeat the mistakes of the last council and run V2 with 7 elected members. I believe 5, or eve 3 is preferred by many within the community.
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> Would you be open to a sentiment poll here to gauge feedback ?

While I won’t speak to the right size for a council in my capacity as GovNest Lead I can speak to precedent in establishing the processes that GovNest facilitates. Given that this is a nomination process that is underway and mostly informed by the v1 iteration and polling that was done by the outgoing v1 council I believe there was ample opportunity to have surfaced this concern ahead of this time.

As an INDEX holder and contributor, given you’re expressing an opinion here, I will as well. On a personal note I find further centralization in the form a of a smaller council to be unappealing and would vote AGAINST a smaller council were it to be polled. That said - any contributor can create a poll in a comment to this post if they wish. I’d urge care in framing any question you pose to this DAO (please remember that this is a DAO election and not an INDEX holder vote; target audience is not the usual), and believe that an ex-council-member such as yourself (high context, heavily involved in the v2 scoping process) calling into the question basic council composition at this stage would be disruptive. Having previously experienced you [pivoting on a proposal](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/community-ownership-compensation-v2-proposal/3361/15) that you helped craft to disruptive effect; and given the [council composition that you yourself put forth less than three weeks ago is 7-members](https://gov.indexcoop.com/t/v2-index-council-contributor-vote-update/3958), I urge prudence in this regard and would prefer to see this be a consideration for v3 as opposed to a poll within this post.

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