How about a Council vote, melee guild leaders vote and everyone else that wants to participate vote, and out of those three separate voting sessions, whichever of the two separate sessions out of three vote and agree upon, we inact that. I suggest this because a single Council vote is already predetermined and we all know what the outcome is going to be.
So the Council, guild leaders and participants have three separate votes and whichever two vote the same, wins.
Or is this asking too much? I think there's plenty of time to do something like this. This way, no one group of voters controls the outcome.