Yeas & NaysBoston City Council votes

Docket 1007

Roll call 4 of 4 at the meeting of December 16, 2009: 17 yes, 22 no.

See it on boston.gov

The motion

City Council Discusses Term Limits for Mayor and Councilors, Including Length of Service.

The City's own summary of the docket.

The effective date shall be January 2, 2012."

The clerk's full description

Amendment of City Councilor John Connolly to Docket #1007, relative to a petition for a Special Law regarding Mayoral Term Limits in the City of Boston, to include "No Councilor shall serve for more than six consecutive two municipal year terms. The effective date shall be January 2, 2012."

How each councillor voted

39 recorded

The City's open dataset records this vote differently

This page follows boston.gov. The City's 2008–2024 dataset has the same roll call with these differences:

  • Ross: no in the dataset, yes on boston.gov.

How this record was read

The City's data gives surnames and short vote codes. These changes were made to read it, and nothing else:

  • Ciommo appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Connolly appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Consalvo appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Feeney appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Flaherty appears more than once in this roll call.
  • LaMattina appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Linehan appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Murphy appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Ross appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Tobin appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Turner appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Yancey appears more than once in this roll call.
  • Yoon appears more than once in this roll call.