City Council motions, votes and attendance
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Each motion in City Council and committee minutes, how each member voted, and who attended, read from the minutes the City publishes.

Published by: OpenDover, from City of Dover minutes
Source: https://www.cityofdover.gov/meetings
License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Credit line: OpenDover, from City of Dover meeting minutes.
Updated: Daily, as minutes are published
Covers: Meetings with published minutes
Area: Dover, Delaware

OpenDover builds this data from the City's public minutes and shares it under CC BY 4.0. Members' votes and attendance are public record.

Files
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- motions.csv and motions.json: id, meeting_id, agenda_item_id, motion_text, mover_speaker_id, seconder_speaker_id, vote_type, result, yea_count, nay_count, abstain_count, absent_count, timestamp_sec, source_document_id, created_at, mover_name, seconder_name
- votes.csv and votes.json: id, motion_id, meeting_id, speaker_id, vote_cast, created_at, member_name
- meeting_attendance.csv and meeting_attendance.json: id, meeting_id, speaker_id, status, notes, created_at, member_name

Each file is built from OpenDover's database when you download it. In the CSV files, text that a spreadsheet would
treat as a formula (starting with =, +, @ or -) begins with an apostrophe so it opens as plain text. The JSON files
hold the values exactly.

This copy: 2026-11-08

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