Vote Database
Every recorded Cedar Rapids City Council vote since January 2023, drawn from the published meeting minutes: who voted for what, who was in the room, which items passed quietly inside a bulk consent motion, and who owns the property the council was discussing.
Read this before you read a vote
Cedar Rapids minutes rarely record how each member voted. Most items pass on a single line such as “the motion carried,” so an individual member’s AYE is usually inferred from the result, not written down. Every vote on this page carries a label saying which it is. An inferred vote is not evidence of a member’s recorded position.
The same caution applies to the identifier beside each item. Where the City issued a resolution or ordinance number, that number is shown as printed in the minutes. Many items — procedural motions, ordinance readings, motions setting hearing dates — never received one, so an identifier shown with a dashed underline was assigned here, not by the City, and is not a number you can cite.
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Attendance
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Property and owners
What this does and does not show
Addresses are pulled out of the agenda text and matched against Linn County assessor records, which are public. Ownership is accurate as of the assessment year shown; the link between an agenda item and a parcel is inferred, and every row says how it was matched. An item mentioning an address is not evidence that the owner sought it, benefited from it, or knew about it. Many appearances simply mean owning land on a busy corridor, or holding a liquor licence renewed in bulk each year.
Owners most often before the council
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Addresses in the record
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About this data
Where the votes come from
The source is the city’s own published meeting minutes. Those PDFs are machine-read and the votes extracted automatically, then checked against the roster and the stated tallies. Each meeting carries a QA status; a small number of items are marked where the extractor could not match an agenda identifier and one was assigned here instead.
Closed sessions appear as meetings, but their content is not public and is not here. Public comment is not yet transcribed.
Where the property data comes from
Addresses are read out of the agenda text and matched against Linn County assessor records; owners are matched against the Iowa business entity registry. Both are public records. Matching is limited to Cedar Rapids, because street names repeat across Linn County and a match in the wrong town would name an entirely unrelated person.
Roughly one address in seven cannot be matched to a parcel at all — usually a property since redeveloped, vacated, or given as a range. Those are shown with no owner rather than a guess.
Where the packet page links come from
The city publishes a packet for each meeting — every staff report, contract and map behind that day’s agenda, in one PDF that can run to four hundred pages. Those PDFs carry the city’s own bookmark list, keyed to the agenda item numbers.
A link here is worked out in two steps. The item text from the minutes is matched against the meeting agenda to find its agenda number, and that number is looked up in the packet’s bookmark list. Only the second step is the city’s own; the first is a text match this project does, and it can be wrong. So a link is shown only where the match was clear, where it fell in agenda order, and where something on the page itself corroborated the item. Where any of those failed, no page is offered.
A page is where a section of the packet begins. It is not a claim that a particular sentence appears on it. A dashed underline means the link points at the start of a block that covers other items too — where one motion adopted several resolutions, the packet prints one section for all of them, and every one of them points there rather than at separate guesses.
Procedural motions — approving the agenda, the minutes, the consent agenda, adjourning — never carry a link, because the packet contains no section for them.
What this page does not do
Nothing here records who visits: no analytics, no tracking, and no log tying a search to a person.