Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.1.235.131-20171022191243/@comment-26397825-20171023223244

Ozpin may not care for the Council, but he still has to deal with them. And they do have a very real power, even over the school - the Council did put Ironwood in charge of security after all, despite Ozpin's protests.

Also, I think you underestimate how much paperwork dealing with officials and making sure everything is running smoothly creates, and how much time that chews up. The bane of powerful men is not that they have to do the grunt work, but that they have to do the paperwork so others can do the grunt work for them.