City facilities and equipment

How much of the council's recorded discussion was about city facilities and equipment, and how contentious it was, year by year.

Scores of the written record, normalized by era. Minutes are the clerk's summaries, not transcripts: tone is muted and the style changed with each clerk and era, so every score is compared only with meetings of the same minute-style era (1962-1979 narrative minutes, 1980-2004, 2005-2016, 2017 on) and shown as a percentile of that era. Signals: divided and failed votes, motions that died for lack of a second, tabled or postponed items, amended motions, ordinance readings that stalled, hearings with objections, public appearances, the length of an item's discussion compared with its era, and words such as "objected", "protest", "concern", "thanked" or "commended", each kept with the sentence it came from. Only pages whose reading scores at or above the archive's score target count. The record is scored, not people: no resident is named or scored, and members appear only through their recorded votes. Meetings named as the most contentious or most congenial are published only after a person reviewed them.
388items on this topic
280meetings
2.9%share of discussion (era average)
15contentious items
12divided votes

Items per year

YearItemsShare of the year's items ContentiousMean contentionWords
19621 3% 0.23200
19633 4% 0.05109
19642 2% 0.1086
19651 1% 0.1152
19663 4% 0.06199
19691 1% 0.0024
19703 2% 0.08178
19722 2% 0.06114
197411 11% 0.06759
19757 5% 0.13511
197612 7% 0.05715
197717 11% 0.04906
197813 7% 0.02737
19803 3%1 0.28253
19815 2% 0.10377
19823 2% 0.12288
19837 2% 0.12403
19845 2% 0.08251
19852 1% 0.13179
19862 1% 0.13108
19874 3%1 0.17206
19887 2%2 0.26927
19902 1% 0.0765
19989 4% 0.05532
19999 2% 0.03489
20001 0% 0.2467
20016 3% 0.08383
20026 3% 0.14576
20051 1% 0.1876
20071 2% 0.31141
20087 3% 0.05121
20092 4% 0.05147
20104 2% 0.0021
20125 2% 0.15573
201312 2%9 0.531,271
201428 7%1 0.061,651
20159 2% 0.03685
201620 2% 0.071,261
201713 2%1 0.13580
201811 1% 0.04383
201913 2% 0.04557
202021 4% 0.041,042
202117 3% 0.03755
202235 6% 0.01957
202318 3% 0.02510
20246 1% 0.05242
202514 2% 0.05817
20264 1% 0.03158

Reviewed examples

Examples appear here once meetings on this topic have been reviewed by a person.

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Data last updated October 21, 2026. Built from the archive's documents; see how the data is built.