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Pollard: voting record
Commissioners Court and the Houston ISD board record every vote in their clerk's system, member by member; those records are read directly. The other school boards' votes come from their own minutes, read when the minutes are posted for approval. Every vote shows the record it came from, word for word, and links to it. If the record did not name who voted which way, nobody is named here.
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Houston City Council · October 7, 2026
Passed, unanimously · Pollard: Absent
MOTION 2026-0555: Motion: adopt the minutes of September 29 - 30 by Council Member Peck,
The record, word for word
No. 2026-0554-1 City Hall Council Chamber October 7, 2026 9:00 a.m. Troy D. Lemon, City Secretary, read the description or captions of the Items on the Agenda. A consolidated meeting of the Houston City Council was held at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, October 7, 2026, Mayor John Whitmire presiding with Council Members Amy Peck, , Joe Panzarella, Carolyn Evans-Shabazz, Tiffany D. Thomas, Mary Nan Huffman, Mario Castillo, Joaquin Martinez, Edward Pollard, Martha Castex-Tatum, Julian Ramirez, Willie Davis, Twila Carter, Alejandra Salinas and Sallie Alcorn; Arturo Michel, City Attorney, Marta Crinejo, Agenda Director, and Troy D. Lemon, City Secretary, present. Council Member Fred Flickinger absent on personal business. At 9:08 a.m., Mayor Whitmire called the meeting to order and recognized Council Member Jackson for the Invocation after which she led the Pledge of Allegiance. Council Member Castex -Tatum moved to adopt the minutes of September 29 - 30 by Council Member Peck, all voting aye, nays none. Council Members Thomas and Pollard absent. MOTION A DOPTED Council Members Thomas and Pollard came into the meeting. Mayor Whitmire recognized Council Member Castex-Tatum for a procedural motion. Council Member Castex-Tatum seconded by Council Member Peck, all voting aye, nays none. MOTION 2026-0555 ADOPTED
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Houston City Council · September 22, 2026
Passed · Pollard: For
ORDINANCE 2026-0825: After further discussion, a roll call vote was requested for the item as amended. Roll Call Vote: Mayor Whitmire voting aye Council Member Martinez voting aye Council Member Peck voting aye Council Member Pollard voting aye Council Member Jackson aye Council Member Castex-Tatum…
The record, word for word
After further discussion, a roll call vote was requested for the item as amended. Roll Call Vote: Mayor Whitmire voting aye Council Member Martinez voting aye Council Member Peck voting aye Council Member Pollard voting aye Council Member Jackson aye Council Member Castex-Tatum absent Council Member Panzarella voting aye Council Member Ramirez voting aye Council Member Evans-Shabazz voting aye Council Member Davis voting aye Council Member Flickinger voting aye Council Member Carter voting aye Council Member Thomas aye Council Member Salinas voting aye Council Member Huffman voting aye Council Member Alcorn voting aye Council Member Castillo absent ORDINANCE 2026-0825 ADOPTED
For: Alcorn, Carter, Davis, Evans-Shabazz, Flickinger, Huffman, Martinez, Panzarella, Peck, Pollard, Ramirez, Salinas, Whitmire
Absent: Castex-Tatum, Castillo
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Houston City Council · July 21, 2026
Passed, unanimously · Pollard: Absent
MOTION 2026-0411: Motion: the rules be suspended for the purpose of moving John Branch to the top of the three (3) minute Non-Agenda List of Speakers
Moved by Castillo.
The record, word for word
Council Member Castillo moved that the rules be suspended for the purpose of moving John Branch to the top of the three (3) minute Non-Agenda List of Speakers and seconded by Council Member Huffman, all voting aye, nays none. Council Members Jackson, Pollard and Salinas absent. MOTION 2026-0411 ADOPTED
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Houston City Council · July 21, 2026
Passed, unanimously · Pollard: Absent
MOTION 2026-0410: Motion: adopt the minutes of July 14 - 15, 2026
Moved by Castex-Tatum.
The record, word for word
Council Member Castex-Tatum moved to adopt the minutes of July 14 - 15, 2026 and seconded by Council Member Peck, all voting aye, nays none. Council Members Jackson, Pollard and Salinas absent. MOTION A DOPTED Mayor Whitmire recognized Council Member Panzarella for a procedural motion. Council Member Panzarella moving Mehdi Rais to follow Lucia Moreno on the three (3) minute Non-Agenda List of Speakers and seconded by Council Member Huffman, all voting aye, nays none. Council Members Jackson, Pollard and Salinas absent. MOTION 2026-0410 ADOPTED
How this is put together
A vote is recorded against a named member only when the record names that member as voting for, against, abstaining, recused or absent. Nothing is worked out by inference. "The motion passed unanimously" is kept as a tally and never turned into individual votes, because the minutes have not said who was in the room.
Minutes are read motion by motion in the wording these boards actually use ("Motion by…, seconded by…", "AYES:/NOES:", "6 votes in favor | 1 vote opposed", "Kalmbach – Nay", "Yea: 7, Nay: 0", "RESULT: APPROVED"). Where a count and a list of names disagree, or a name appears on two sides, the names are dropped rather than guessed at. Scanned minutes are transcribed from the page images first.
Minutes that record no votes. Texas law says a board's minutes must "indicate each vote, order, decision, or other action taken" (Government Code §551.021). These boards' posted minutes, read in full, record no motion and no vote at all: Stafford MSD (6 sets of minutes). Who voted which way on what they approved is not in the public record they post.
Minutes read so far
- Alief ISD: 4 minutes found, 3 read, 0 votes recorded
- Channelview ISD: 9 minutes found, 2 read, 16 votes recorded
- Clear Creek ISD: 23 minutes found, 11 read, 21 votes recorded
- Crosby ISD: 15 minutes found, 6 read, 34 votes recorded
- Cy-Fair ISD: 19 minutes found, 7 read, 44 votes recorded
- Goose Creek CISD: 12 minutes found, 5 read, 24 votes recorded
- Houston City Council: 14 minutes found, 14 read, 364 votes recorded
- Klein ISD: 8 minutes found, 2 read, 0 votes recorded
- La Porte ISD: 14 minutes found, 9 read, 25 votes recorded
- Pasadena ISD: 21 minutes found, 10 read, 102 votes recorded
- Sheldon ISD: 7 minutes found, 5 read, 19 votes recorded
- Spring Branch ISD: 17 minutes found, 9 read, 19 votes recorded
- Stafford MSD: 6 minutes found, 6 read, 0 votes recorded
- Waller ISD: 8 minutes found, 8 read, 35 votes recorded
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