Other governments and 28E agreements

How much of the council's recorded discussion was about other governments and 28e agreements, 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.
400items on this topic
276meetings
3.0%share of discussion (era average)
10contentious items
7divided votes

A recurring struggle: contentious items in 4 decades (1970s: 2, 1980s: 6, 2000s: 1, 2020s: 1).

Items per year

YearItemsShare of the year's items ContentiousMean contentionWords
19621 3% 0.0027
19631 1% 0.17205
19644 4% 0.07279
19652 2% 0.03139
19673 5% 0.18201
19685 4% 0.04166
19695 3% 0.16405
19704 2% 0.20385
19714 5%1 0.29397
19721 1% 0.21124
19731 1% 0.1156
19742 2%1 0.37113
19759 6% 0.07548
19764 2% 0.09180
19775 3% 0.05231
19786 3% 0.04168
19791 2% 0.0026
19808 8%5 0.39509
19816 2%1 0.21380
19829 5% 0.10600
198316 5% 0.07929
198414 5% 0.07954
19854 3% 0.05522
19862 1% 0.04117
19872 1% 0.13267
198816 5% 0.07841
19897 3% 0.11810
19908 3% 0.09493
199816 6% 0.06987
199920 5% 0.041,594
200021 10%1 0.111,314
200117 7% 0.071,020
200216 9% 0.10954
20052 3% 0.1085
20061 3% 0.0025
200815 5% 0.04389
20092 4% 0.12122
20106 3% 0.0175
20112 1% 0.0668
20126 2% 0.09435
20135 1% 0.10366
201412 3% 0.08796
20157 2% 0.131,025
201612 1% 0.021,190
201720 3% 0.06963
201811 1% 0.09533
20198 1% 0.04292
20209 2% 0.09365
202112 2% 0.05615
20227 1% 0.07337
20233 1% 0.09200
20246 1%1 0.13417
20257 1% 0.10450
20267 1% 0.08606

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.