These are the traditional duties and powers of all councilmembers:

Post polls and discussions to determine citizen desires for departmental policies, plans and agendas.
Cast a tie-breaking vote in the polls determining their departmental policies, plans and agendas.
Formulate departmental policies, plans and agendas based on citizen feedback.
Formulate departmental policies, plans and agendas of their own in the absence of citizen feedback (forum outage, low participation, etc).
Convey these policies, plans and agendas to the President for play in the game.
Call Legislative and Override Council Votes.
Vote in Council Votes of all types

These are the duties assigned to the culture leader:

Can supercede a provincial build queue with cultural improvements under certain circumstances.

Please Accept or Decline any nominations you receive.

I nominate Curufinwe.

I accept.

And I will throw my own hat into this paticular ring.

Erm, Oct, you don't have a hat, according to your avatar! I'll second you.

Ill nominate eyrie, ct, 40j and padma.

I'll throw my cape into this one, being that I am the current culture leader...

I'll second Plexus.