Linda Lee

Council member, District 23, New York City Council

We identified Lee’s voice at 39 meetings across seven bodies. Named Queens most often: four times.

10 of 17transcribed meetings with their voice identified

62questions at the Committee on Education

22 of 23present at roll calls, from the clerk

Chairs the Committee on Finance; sits on 4 more committees

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Next New York City Council meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 1:30 pm · Agenda

One clip, newest first

Linda Lee · Chair · Committee on Finance · Jul 15, 2026 · 44:36
“Is there any additional targeted outreach to residents, um, you know, that are subject to significant rent increases?”

Issues Lee raised, by number of meetings

Rent and the Rent Guidelines Board2 meetings
NYCHA and public housing1 meeting

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Every roll call, and Lee’s other bodies

Present at 22 of 23 roll calls at the New York City Council

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 1. Oct 29, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

New York City Council: 0.6 min of speech a meeting, range 0.2–1.3. In the same range as 46 other members.
Committee on Education: 4.8 min of speech a meeting, range 0.9–14.8. In the same range as 10 other members.
Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics: 1.0 min of speech a meeting, range 0.3–2.3. In the same range as six other members.
Committee on Parks and Recreation: 2.4 min of speech a meeting, range 0.2–8.1. In the same range as six other members.
Committee on Finance: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Aging: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
Committee on Finance: present at 19 of 20 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Education: present at 18 of 18 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics: present at 16 of 16 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Parks and Recreation: present at 15 of 16 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use: present at 6 of 6 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Aging: present at 2 of 3 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Land Use: present at 0 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
Committee on Mental Health and Addiction: present at 0 of 1 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
Committee on Oversight and Investigations: present at 4 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

Questions

Lee asked 62 questions at the four Committee on Education meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

And Have you gotten feedback from providers and different folks who maybe perhaps use both systems, right, who can then look at it and say, here are some best practices from either/or that would actually help us to streamline things so that we’re not spending so much time working on this?Committee on Education · Jun 8, 2026 · Play at 3:03:49

Of Lee’s 43 questions to city departments at the Committee on Education, 43 went to schools / school district.

Who they question: 43 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Committee on Education43 questions to city departments

Committee on Education: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
Schools / school district		43100%

Neighborhoods Lee named

8 places Lee named in meetings

Lines where Lee named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

New York

Queens 4 times
Manhattan 3 times
Rockaway 2 times
Flushing 1 time
Gowanus 1 time
Long Island City 1 time
Queens Village 1 time
Staten Island 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) file (NYC Department of City Planning, via NYC Open Data). A dot says the place was named, not where Lee was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Lee’s voice

39, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Lee’s first remark.

Oct 8, 2026Committee on Finance1.7 min0:15
Sep 30, 2026Committee on Parks and Recreation2.3 min48:02
Sep 18, 2026Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use2.0 min2:49:10
Sep 10, 2026New York City Council0.1 min43:07
Sep 10, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics0.1 min5:31
Sep 1, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics2.5 min53:21
Jul 16, 2026Committee on Finance0.9 min3:33
Jul 15, 2026Committee on Finance11.7 min5:19
Jun 11, 2026Committee on Finance1.3 min0:25
Jun 11, 2026New York City Council1.7 min32:05

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Jun 10, 2026Committee on Finance60.6 min5:15
Jun 9, 2026Committee on Finance16.0 minVideo
Jun 8, 2026Committee on Finance26.7 min0:30
Jun 8, 2026Committee on Education26.7 min0:30
May 27, 2026Committee on Finance19.4 min0:33
May 27, 2026Committee on Parks and Recreation19.4 min0:33
May 14, 2026New York City Council3.0 min16:47
Apr 30, 2026Committee on Finance2.9 min0:22
Apr 16, 2026Committee on Finance0.7 min0:14
Apr 6, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics2.9 min0:32
Mar 26, 2026Committee on Finance1.6 min0:23
Mar 25, 2026Committee on Finance31.9 minVideo
Mar 23, 2026Committee on Education4.2 min46:43
Mar 23, 2026Committee on Parks and Recreation1.8 min1:34:29
Mar 12, 2026Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics3.3 min1:17:45
Mar 11, 2026Committee on Finance39.8 min0:26
Mar 10, 2026Committee on Finance1.7 min0:06
Mar 10, 2026New York City Council0.1 min38:03
Mar 4, 2026Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use2.9 min26:07
Feb 12, 2026New York City Council0.1 min34:33
Feb 10, 2026Committee on Education3.2 min1:18:48
Jan 30, 2026Committee on Education4.0 min32:26
Jan 29, 2026Committee on Finance4.6 min0:34
Jan 29, 2026New York City Council1.4 min1:39:43
Jan 7, 2026New York City Council2.7 min24:00
Dec 18, 2025New York City Council0.7 min1:58:02
Dec 9, 2025Committee on Aging2.9 min56:52
Nov 12, 2025New York City Council0.0 min45:31
Oct 29, 2025New York City Council0.1 min1:04:50

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 Lee was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Linda Lee’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 Lee 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 Lee or of New York alone.