How these letters were calculated

What is counted

Only votes the official cast. Absences, abstentions, and recusals are left out. Fewer than three cast votes is a dash, not a grade.

• Taxes uses the topic “Tax & fee increases.” A higher letter means more no votes.
• Development uses “Development agreements & annexation.” A higher letter means more no votes.
• PIDs uses “Public infrastructure districts (PIDs).” A higher letter means more no votes.

A motion can sit in more than one topic. The report card uses the same topic rows as the record pages. It does not retag the minutes. Heidi Franco, Scott Phillips, Mark Nelson, Colleen Bonner, Michael Murphy, and Spencer Park do not have those topic tables, so their cards are a dash. That is not a grade.

The scale

The letter is that share of the votes they cast.

• A is 90% or more
• B is 80% or more
• C is 70% or more
• D is 60% or more
• Under 60% is an F

The line under each letter is the count that produced it, such as “3 no · 15 yes.”

One example

Erik Rowland’s tax row is 13 yes, 1 no, and 2 absent. The absences drop out, so the score is 1 no out of 14 cast votes, about 7%, an F. His development-agreement row is 19 yes and 0 no, an F. His PID row is 5 yes and 2 no, 2 of 7, also an F.

That is why these letters are mostly F’s. On those motions the file is almost all yes votes, and this scale treats a yes on a tax increase, a development agreement, or a PID as the low score.

The topic tables are on each person’s page under Voting records.