I find all this board number talk interesting in that people assume the 3P members will always vote together and the others will oppose. Is it not the idea of a 7 member board that people vote as they feel will benefit the club not as some puppet master tell them to vote.
I would hope each member votes with their conscience as to what they feel is best for the club not who their mates are.
Having members a number of members on both boards works in each entities best interest. The FC needs the money from the LC, so the LC has some control over how the money is spent and the LC was/is there to look after the interest of the FC, so as was mentioned earlier the LC can not shaft the FC of funds.