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Votes

Recorded motions, movers, seconders, and results across every meeting in the archive.

6,466
Recorded votes
4,787
Unanimous
335
Non-unanimous
1,335
No recorded tally
4
Tally recorded, neither a unanimous pass nor a split
5
Minutes disagree about whether a member voted

Archive-wide totals — these cards always describe the entire archive; the member / keyword filters below don't change them. 4,787 unanimous + 335 non-unanimous + 1,335 with no recorded tally + 4 with a recorded tally that is neither a unanimous pass nor a split + 5 on which the minutes' text and the printed ballot disagree about whether a member voted = 6,466 recorded votes. “No recorded tally” are motions whose outcome was captured (e.g. “Passed”) but the numeric split wasn’t — the official roll-call record below fills many of these in.

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Mover / seconder pairings

How often each pair of councilmembers paired up as mover + seconder on the same motion, out of the motions in this table where either of them was mover or seconder. 23 / 47 reads as: of the 47 motions where either was on the record as a mover or seconder, they paired with each other on 23 of them. A coarse proxy for working together; the archive does NOT capture individual ballots on voice votes, so this is intentionally a co-occurrence count, not a "loyalty score".

Pair Paired / either active
Brenda Warner ↔ Don Boisvert 430 / 1640 (26%)
Mike Blake ↔ Alex Goins 246 / 1888 (13%)
Mike Blake ↔ Herbert "Rip" Dyal 199 / 1455 (13%)
Alex Goins ↔ Lorraine Koss 196 / 1755 (11%)
Herbert "Rip" Dyal ↔ Alex Goins 174 / 1536 (11%)
Don Boisvert ↔ Alex Goins 159 / 2103 (7%)
Herbert "Rip" Dyal ↔ Lavander Hearn 149 / 1061 (14%)
Mike Blake ↔ Lavander Hearn 143 / 1491 (9%)
Brenda Warner ↔ Lorraine Koss 140 / 1619 (8%)
Don Boisvert ↔ Lorraine Koss 139 / 1884 (7%)
Mike Blake ↔ Patricia Weeks 126 / 1357 (9%)
Don Boisvert ↔ Clarence Whipple Jr. 121 / 1325 (9%)
Jeri Blanco ↔ Don Boisvert 118 / 1286 (9%)
Alex Goins ↔ Lavander Hearn 114 / 1576 (7%)
Lorraine Koss ↔ Patricia Weeks 109 / 1191 (9%)
Mike Blake ↔ Don Boisvert 107 / 2099 (5%)
Alex Goins ↔ Patricia Weeks 103 / 1436 (7%)
Brenda Warner ↔ Clarence Whipple Jr. 95 / 1087 (8%)
Lavander Hearn ↔ Patricia Weeks 86 / 953 (9%)
Lavander Hearn ↔ Lorraine Koss 85 / 1366 (6%)
Larry J. Brown ↔ Jackie Isom 72 / 294 (24%)
Mike Blake ↔ Lorraine Koss 72 / 1823 (3%)
Brenda Warner ↔ Mike Blake 68 / 1874 (3%)
Brenda Warner ↔ Jeri Blanco 63 / 1077 (5%)
Herbert "Rip" Dyal ↔ Lorraine Koss 61 / 1410 (4%)
Brenda Warner ↔ Alex Goins 53 / 1945 (2%)
Jeri Blanco ↔ Clarence Whipple Jr. 50 / 466 (10%)
Jewel Collins ↔ Delores Martin 41 / 151 (27%)
Mike Blake ↔ Tyler Furbish 35 / 1053 (3%)
Larry J. Brown ↔ Amy Robinson 27 / 263 (10%)
Larry J. Brown ↔ Crystal McQueen 27 / 276 (9%)
Larry J. Brown ↔ Ed Jones 21 / 273 (7%)
Larry J. Brown ↔ Delores Martin 19 / 328 (5%)
Matthew Barringer ↔ Mike Blake 19 / 1063 (1%)
Jackie Isom ↔ Crystal McQueen 15 / 164 (9%)
Matthew Barringer ↔ Alex Goins 14 / 1124 (1%)
Ed Jones ↔ Delores Martin 11 / 140 (7%)
Brenda Warner ↔ Tyler Furbish 10 / 942 (1%)
Brenda Warner ↔ Jake Williams Jr. 8 / 923 (0%)
Lorraine Koss ↔ Jake Williams Jr. 7 / 877 (0%)

Voting together, by seat

How often each pair of City Council seats voted the same way (both yes or both no) on the 187 divided Council votes in the City's minutes from 2016-02-09 to 2026-09-22. A divided vote is one where at least one member voted no; on unanimous votes every pair agrees, so they are left out.

Mayor District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4
Mayor 66%183 votes 59%179 votes 59%176 votes 26%173 votes
District 1 66%183 votes 67%183 votes 58%180 votes 32%177 votes
District 2 59%179 votes 67%183 votes 57%176 votes 38%173 votes
District 3 59%176 votes 58%180 votes 57%176 votes 35%170 votes
District 4 26%173 votes 32%177 votes 38%173 votes 35%170 votes
0% 100% voted the same way

Each cell: the share of divided votes on which both seats voted the same way, and how many divided votes both seats took part in. A seat's member is whoever held it on the meeting date, from the council roster.

Members who held each seat in these votes: Mayor: Henry Parrish III (10 votes), Jake Williams Jr. (26 votes), Mike Blake (147 votes); District 1: Mike Blake (5 votes), Clarence Whipple Jr. (5 votes), Alex Goins (177 votes); District 2: Brenda Warner (33 votes), Lavander Hearn (150 votes); District 3: Don Boisvert (35 votes), Herbert "Rip" Dyal (85 votes), Matthew Barringer (17 votes), Patricia Weeks (43 votes); District 4: Tyler Furbish (3 votes), Jeri Blanco (5 votes), Lorraine Koss (169 votes).

Set aside: 2 votes whose named votes did not match the printed tally, 1 taken on a swearing-in day, 2 where the minutes print a result and names that do not agree.

Voting together: members and seats

How often each Mayor or Council member voted the same way as whoever held each seat, on the 187 divided Council votes in the City's minutes from February 9, 2016 to September 22, 2026. A member's row pools every divided vote they cast, in whichever seat they held at the time.

Member Mayor District 1 District 2 District 3 District 4
Serving today
Mike BlakeDistrict 1 2016; Mayor 2021–2026 · 152 divided votes –5 votes 66%147 votes 60%151 votes 64%146 votes 19%143 votes
Alex GoinsDistrict 1 2019–2026 · 177 divided votes 66%173 votes own seat 69%174 votes 58%170 votes 31%169 votes
Lavander HearnDistrict 2 2021–2026 · 150 divided votes 61%146 votes 75%150 votes own seat 56%144 votes 41%143 votes
Patricia WeeksDistrict 3 2024–2026 · 43 divided votes 37%43 votes 37%43 votes 40%43 votes own seat 71%41 votes
Lorraine KossDistrict 4 2019–2026 · 169 divided votes 24%165 votes 31%169 votes 38%166 votes 35%162 votes own seat
Former members
Don BoisvertDistrict 3 2016–2020 · 35 divided votes 40%35 votes 46%35 votes 66%32 votes own seat 28%32 votes
Brenda WarnerDistrict 2 2016–2020 · 33 divided votes 48%33 votes 30%33 votes own seat 66%32 votes 27%30 votes
Jake Williams Jr.Mayor 2019–2020 · 26 divided votes own seat 65%26 votes 50%24 votes 32%25 votes 60%25 votes
Herbert "Rip" DyalDistrict 3 2021–2023 · 85 divided votes 76%82 votes 72%85 votes 64%84 votes own seat 22%82 votes
Matthew BarringerDistrict 3 2023–2024 · 17 divided votes 75%16 votes 71%17 votes 53%17 votes own seat 27%15 votes
0% 100% voted the same way

Each cell: the share of divided votes on which the member and the holder of that seat both voted and voted the same way (both yes or both no), and how many such votes there were. "Own seat": the member held that seat for all of their divided votes. “–”: fewer than 15 divided votes in common, with the count shown. The years beside each name are the years of their divided votes in this set, not their full terms.

Not shown. A member appears only if they share at least 15 divided votes with at least one seat. These members do not; most of their recorded votes were unanimous, and the vote records begin on December 8, 2015:

  • Henry Parrish III (Mayor 2016–2018): 10 divided votes; 747 Council votes recorded by name in these records, December 8, 2015 to October 24, 2018.
  • Tyler Furbish (District 4 2016): 3 divided votes; 111 Council votes recorded by name in these records, December 8, 2015 to July 26, 2016.
  • Clarence Whipple Jr. (District 1 2017–2018): 5 divided votes; 474 Council votes recorded by name in these records, January 10, 2017 to November 20, 2018.
  • Jeri Blanco (District 4 2017–2018): 5 divided votes; 537 Council votes recorded by name in these records, October 4, 2016 to November 20, 2018.

"Council votes recorded by name": Council motions in the records (procedural motions left out) on which the record names the member as voting yes or no, including a swearing-in day on which the member is named voting before the oath.

Votes: City Council motions (procedural ones left out) in the City's minutes, where the minutes name at least one "no" vote. Set aside: 2 votes whose named votes did not match the printed tally; 1 taken on a swearing-in day; 2 where the minutes print a result and names that do not agree. Each member's vote: "no" as named; "yes" as named or, where only the no votes are named, every seated member not otherwise listed, used only when the counts match the printed tally. A member compared with a seat they themselves held at the time is left out of that comparison. The figure counts matching yes and no votes only.

Unanimous Council votes by year

The share of City Council motions each year on which no member voted no, from the vote count the City's minutes print with each motion. It measures agreement among the Council members on recorded votes, not agreement among residents.

Share of City Council motions that were unanimous, by year, 2015 to 2026A line chart with one point per year; the numbers are in the table below.75%80%85%90%95%100%2015: 14 of 14 motions unanimous (100.0%); 0 with at least one no vote100.0%20152016: 285 of 290 motions unanimous (98.3%); 5 with at least one no vote98.3%20162017: 238 of 239 motions unanimous (99.6%); 1 with at least one no vote99.6%20172018: 278 of 283 motions unanimous (98.2%); 5 with at least one no vote98.2%20182019: 284 of 297 motions unanimous (95.6%); 13 with at least one no vote95.6%20192020: 331 of 345 motions unanimous (95.9%); 14 with at least one no vote95.9%20202021: 250 of 280 motions unanimous (89.3%); 30 with at least one no vote89.3%20212022: 188 of 218 motions unanimous (86.2%); 30 with at least one no vote86.2%20222023: 189 of 227 motions unanimous (83.3%); 38 with at least one no vote83.3%20232024: 231 of 245 motions unanimous (94.3%); 14 with at least one no vote94.3%20242025: 210 of 233 motions unanimous (90.1%); 23 with at least one no vote90.1%20252026*: 170 of 188 motions unanimous (90.4%); 18 with at least one no vote90.4%2026*

The vertical axis starts at 75%. *2026: minutes in the archive run through September 22, 2026.

YearMeetingsMotions countedUnanimous At least one no voteUnanimous shareNo count printed
2015114140100.0%1
201626290285598.3%5
201724239238199.6%3
201825283278598.2%0
2019232972841395.6%7
2020323453311495.9%7
2021282802503089.3%11
2022252181883086.2%14
2023262271893883.3%6
2024262452311494.3%12
2025252332102390.1%14
2026*231881701890.4%6

Motions: City Council motions in the City's minutes as read by CocoaCivic, procedural motions such as adjourning left out. Meetings: sets of minutes with at least one non-procedural Council motion (a special and a regular meeting on the same day count separately); meetings with no published minutes (recording-only meetings) are not included. Unanimous or not: from the vote count printed with the motion; a motion is unanimous when no member voted no (absent, abstaining or recused members do not count either way). Where no count is printed, the named yes and no votes are used; where neither is printed, the motion is left out ("No count printed"). A count or the names are used as printed even where the minutes print no result word (the page says "result not printed; worked out from the count"); a vote whose printed result and printed names do not agree is left out, and so is a motion on which the minutes' text says a member recused while the printed ballot lists that member voting ("The minutes disagree").

What it does not show: disagreement that never reaches a vote (motions withdrawn, tabled, amended, or dying for lack of a second), and how many items one vote covers (a consent agenda approves many items in one motion).

Reset

3 meetings have votes on their recordings only (machine transcript; the City's minutes are not yet available), not in the table below; see the meeting pages: 2026-10-27 City Council, 2026-10-13 City Council, 2026-09-23 City Council.

Matching votes

Showing 680 votes in 2019 (the newest 400 are listed). Where the City's minutes are on file, a vote comes from the minutes, with its ballots and recusals; otherwise it comes from the meeting recording and is labelled so.

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