Well in that case, what would a council even achieve?
If there was a group of people that debated and made recommendations to pool operators, miners and industry who would you want to hear from, who would you trust?
I honestly don't think anyone should speak for any one other than themselves. I certainly don't want someone speaking for me.
If someone wants to hold a vote on something, that can already be done on the forum or the mailing list.
Want your proposal to be documented once it has a consensus? Put it on the wiki, post a locked thread, summarise it on the mailing list - where ever people feel is appropriate.
You then want to communicate that to pool operators or miners? There should be a place those ideas that reached consensus can be referred to - the wiki seems the best place to me along with an announcement on the forums and the mailing list.
The mailing list (bitcoin, not bitcoin-dev) on sourceforge a bit dead? So what? It's still there to be used and could do with some life.
As for communicating with industry, well... I'm not sure an anonymous group of members that call themselves a council would get listened to...