Hypocritical?

I went to a recent NC (Neighborhood Council) meeting and the NC representative, who is City Staff, told the members of the board that they should not talk about the landfill expansion nor make any decisions because it could come before them and such actions would be a problem. So how is it that City Council Member Barbra Williamson can talk about it, has clearly made a decision about it, has created an non-City "task force" in order to further her own agenda, but this is acceptable and it not listed as a conflict of interest with regards to Council meetings.