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Sheila Russell

7 terms, 1986-99.

Mayor 1996

2,474papers filed135vs their councils100 = the median member2,390roll calls on record2,276roll-call events while seated70.5% of 1,503 rolls that name who was missingrecorded absent2,267votes recorded48of 1,494 votes on rolls that name each sideagainst the majority

Counts are what the record holds, not what happened: coverage thins the further back you look, and a term with little recovered will show small numbers for everyone who sat in it. The index is the figure to compare between people. It measures this councillor against the others on their own council, so the same gaps sit in the numerator and the denominator and largely cancel. Where this comes from.

Term by term

Term	Role	Papers	Index	Roll calls	Votes	Against
1986–87	Councillor	270	185	364	330	2
1988–89	Councillor	320	181	287	277	3
1990–91	Councillor	534	112	335	320	21
1992–93	Councillor	566	110	431	410	9
1994–95	Councillor	383	139	378	360	11
1996–97	Mayor	267	136	327	315	2
1998–99	Councillor	134	83	268	255	0

Who they voted with

Rated on contested roll calls only, the votes with at least one nay: the council adopts most business unanimously, and agreeing on a unanimous vote says nothing about affinity. Pairs sharing fewer than 10 contested votes are not rated. Agreement across all shared votes, unanimous included, is shown for context.

Most often

Councillor	Contested	Agreement	Overall
Walter Sullivan	75 of 82	91%	99% of 1,211 votes
Michael A. Sullivan	43 of 51	84%	99% of 925 votes
Anthony D. Galluccio	27 of 34	79%	99% of 748 votes

Least often

Councillor	Contested	Agreement	Overall
Katherine Triantafillou	20 of 51	39%	97% of 919 votes
Ed Cyr	23 of 58	40%	95% of 709 votes
Jonathan Myers	37 of 92	40%	95% of 1,072 votes