Mercedes Narcisse

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.

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

• Committee on Finance: 2.1 min of speech a meeting, range 0.8–4.6. In the same range as 12 other members.
• Committee on Parks and Recreation: 3.1 min of speech a meeting, range 1.7–5.1. In the same range as six other members.
• Committee on Education: 0.8 min of speech a meeting, range 0.3–1.8. In the same range as 10 other members.
• Committee on Health: 4.9 min of speech a meeting, range 0.7–10.8. In the same range as four other members.
• Committee on Hospitals: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
• Committee on Civil Service and Labor: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Criminal Justice: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: talk time not compared. Seated for only 3 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Finance: present at 20 of 20 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Parks and Recreation: present at 14 of 16 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Hospitals: present at 7 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Education: present at 14 of 18 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Health: present at 15 of 17 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Civil Service and Labor: present at 5 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Criminal Justice: present at 4 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: present at 4 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Task Force to Combat Antisemitism: present at 0 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

We identified Narcisse’s voice at 63 meetings across nine bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Narcisse was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Mercedes Narcisse’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 Narcisse 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 Narcisse or of New York alone.