To expand on my previous post, people generally feel like they are not the ones to be suggesting changes or working on making events and other things because they generally feel its not their place to step in, decide things, or rally people.
This was ideally what the PC was going to do, taking more decisions that the HC used to, and I used to. By empowering as I did I hoped that they would do these kind of things. Making them "official" to the masses hopefully conveyed some "difference" in them. Public opinion was quite favourable and they had some quite cool plans and indeed did help with halloween but it didn't overall pan out how I planned.