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Ramirez: 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 · September 22, 2026

Passed · Ramirez: 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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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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