Darlene Mealy
Council member, District 41, New York City CouncilWe identified Mealy’s voice at 25 meetings across six bodies. Named Bedford-Stuyvesant most often: four times.
Also sits on 5 committees
Next New York City Council meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 1:30 pm · Agenda
District 41 on the current New York City Council map
Every roll call, and Mealy’s other bodies
Present at 15 of 23 roll calls at the New York City Council
- Committee on Finance: 0.2 min of speech a meeting, range 0.0–0.7. In the same range as 12 other members.
- Committee on Aging: talk time not compared. Seated for only 7 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee to Combat Hate: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on General Welfare: talk time not compared. Fewer than four members can be compared fairly.
- Committee on Public Housing: talk time not compared. Seated for only 3 meetings in 12 months.
- Committee on Aging: present at 6 of 9 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee to Combat Hate: present at 4 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Finance: present at 13 of 20 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on General Welfare: present at 6 of 10 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Public Housing: present at 2 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
- Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
12 places Mealy named in meetings
- Bedford-Stuyvesant 4 times
- Brooklyn 4 times
- Queens 4 times
- Brownsville 3 times, the most of any official
- Crown Heights 3 times, the most of any official
- East New York 3 times
- Bushwick 1 time
- Canarsie 1 time
- East Flatbush 1 time
- Manhattan 1 time
- Ocean Hill 1 time
- Staten Island 1 time
Every meeting where we identified Mealy’s voice
- Jun 30, 2026New York City Council2.6 min45:58
- Jun 23, 2026Committee to Combat Hate6.9 min57:05
- Jun 16, 2026Committee on Aging2.5 min51:32
- Jun 11, 2026New York City Council1.2 min48:01
- Jun 10, 2026Committee on Finance0.7 min6:58:26
- May 6, 2026Committee on General Welfare1.4 min48:10
- Apr 30, 2026New York City Council1.9 min1:11:19
- Apr 30, 2026Committee on Finance1.7 min5:46
- Apr 16, 2026New York City Council2.6 min57:17
- Apr 15, 2026Committee to Combat Hate0.4 min4:11
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- Apr 10, 2026Committee on Aging7.8 min55:51
- Mar 26, 2026Committee to Combat Hate0.4 min10:02
- Mar 24, 2026Committee on Public Housing3.1 min2:08:46
- Mar 12, 2026Committee on Aging10.0 min1:10:56
- Mar 11, 2026Committee on Finance0.7 min2:02:15
- Mar 10, 2026New York City Council0.1 min39:01
- Feb 25, 2026Committee to Combat Hate3.1 min1:29:18
- Feb 24, 2026New York City Council0.2 min53:29
- Feb 19, 2026Committee on Aging12.0 min9:40
- Feb 12, 2026New York City Council0.5 min34:57
- Feb 10, 2026Committee on General Welfare2.0 min2:43:28
- Jan 29, 2026New York City Council1.7 min56:50
- Jan 7, 2026New York City Council0.9 min54:39
- Dec 18, 2025New York City Council3.6 min1:24:20
- Nov 12, 2025New York City Council0.1 min46:17
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged
A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Mealy was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Darlene Mealy’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Mealy said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Mealy or of New York alone.