I respectfully disagree with this proposal.
Council members are community members first. If the Association creates a rewards program that is available to all participants, I don’t see why elected council members should be excluded from participating simply because they serve in a governance role.
In fact, I would argue the opposite. The people helping shape and oversee these programs should have firsthand experience using them. Participation creates alignment between council members and the broader community. If a program is beneficial to users, council members should be experiencing those same benefits and incentives alongside everyone else, and help encourage usage.
Creating a class of community members who are expected to volunteer their time, contribute to governance, and simultaneously be excluded from programs available to everyone else could actually discourage qualified people from serving.
The Telcoin ecosystem has always been built on community involvement. Council members should be held to standards of transparency and ethics, but they should not be stripped of the ability to participate in the very ecosystem they are helping govern.
Equal access, transparent disclosure, and clear conflict of interest policies seem like a better solution than outright exclusion.