no...we cant cut members...we need more..if it was a close battle....and every voting council member voted and the score was pretty even like 4-3 and since every council member voted(4 members-3 members=7 members which is the total number of voting council members) there would be no one to give that last vote...so we need 9 members....we can cut anyone because then if a battle was close we would only be able to vote up to 5 votes and if it was a close battle and the score was 3-2 there would be no more people to vote