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A step-by-step guide showing the creation of a council motion

What is a council? 
To represent passive stakeholders, Porta introduces the idea of a "council". The council is an on-chain entity comprising several actors, each represented as an on-chain account. On Porta, the council currently consists of 13 members. 
The purpose of the council is to: 
Control the treasury 
Propose referenda 
Cancel referenda consider dangerous or malicious by the council and community 
Electing the technical committee 
For a referendum to be proposed by the council, a strict majority of members must be in favor, with no member exercising a veto. Vetoes may be exercised only once by a member for any single proposal; if, after a cool-down period, the proposal is resubmitted, they may not veto it a second time. 
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What is a council motion? 
A council motion is a proposal to perform a function call in the runtime using a privileged account. 
Only members of the council can create a council motion. The public version of a council motion is called a proposal and is accessible on the Governance > Democracy page of PolkadotJS Apps. 
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Guide 
Access Porta-UI
​https://console.porta.network/#/council/motions​
Porta Explorer
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Governance > Council > Motions
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Click: +Propose Motion
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In our example we use ROOT (a council member account) to create a council motion. The motion is to set the balance of GENERIC-USER to 500 tokens, but you can specify whatever function call you would like to request.
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Once the council motion has been processed, the proposal will appear in the motions list

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