We don't have to involve programming into this, do we? The council members could have something to denote that they are indeed council members in their sig or you could make a forum which is moderated by the 5 council members when they discuss ratings and such. Once a member is being rated, the council can discuss it in a thread or make a poll and then vote.
This seems a lot easier to me than doing a crapload of programming and coding.
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