Tim Chandler
City Council Member
Ward 4, seen in attendance lists from 2025-01-02 to 2025-03-06; listed by name in attendance lists to 2026-07-06, the latest minutes read; Ward 4, seen in attendance lists 2017-01-03 to 2020-12-17
Shows Clarksville City Council records from 2016-01-04 to 2026-11-05. Minutes fetched between 2026-11-09 and 2026-11-12.
- 110meetings with attendance shown
- 98meetings recorded present
- 857votes in confirmed roll calls
- 103votes in not confirmed* roll calls
- 13motions moved
- 26motions seconded
Attendance
Recorded present at 98 and absent at 12 of 110 meetings with attendance shown, 2016-01-04 to 2026-11-05.
- Meetings present: 98
- Meetings absent: 12
Roll-call votes
Confirmed roll calls
Of 949 confirmed roll calls at meetings where this person is listed in the attendance, or where a vote is recorded for them: a vote is recorded for this person in 857; 84 were held at meetings where this person is recorded absent; 8 have no vote recorded for this person while recorded present. The bar shows confirmed roll calls only.
- Yes: 703
- No: 152
- Abstain: 1
- Other: 1
- Roll calls while recorded absent: 84
- No vote recorded: 8
Not confirmed roll calls*
Of 150 not confirmed roll calls at meetings where this person is listed in the attendance, or where a vote is recorded for them: a vote is recorded for this person in 103; 21 were held at meetings where this person is recorded absent; 26 have no vote recorded for this person while recorded present.
* They did not pass the automatic checks, so no vote from them is shown here. Each row in the history links to its page of the minutes. Confirmed and not confirmed roll calls are never added together.
Totals
- Recorded absent at 12 of 110 meetings with an extracted attendance section, 2016-01-04 to 2026-11-05.
- Roll call votes, 2016-01-04 to 2026-11-05: 703 Yes, 152 No, 1 Abstain, 1 Other confirmed; 103 votes in not confirmed* roll calls, see each page.
- 430 votes in this period have a name that could not be matched to an official and are not counted for any member.
- 204 meetings in this period have no extracted attendance section and are not counted.
- 4 meetings in this period have an attendance section that is under review and are not counted.
* Not confirmed: the automatic checks could not confirm it against the minutes. Each such row below says which check did not pass and links to the page. Confirmed and not confirmed votes are never added together.
Called on in meetings (transcript)
Where the automatic transcript of a meeting's video shows the chair calling on this person by title and surname, with the surname matched to that meeting's attendance list in the minutes (never to the voice). Each entry links to that moment in the city's video and quotes about 20 seconds of transcript text after the call-on, word for word. The transcript is made by speech-recognition software and may contain errors; the video is the record.
- 2026-01-08, regular session: 0:39:16 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Thank you, Mayor. My concern is, I heard Mr. Ligon make the statement a while ago that the turning lane, and it's got to have a study done, and that's the next step after this. That's kind of putting a cart in front of the horse. You're asking us to approve this, and then maybe or maybe not this traffic study will come back
- 2026-01-08, regular session: 0:51:51 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Thank you, Mayor. I'll be voting no on this. I think it's just too much traffic to add right there beside the school. The city has spent a huge sum of money at the roundabout trying to, you know, alleviate traffic problems and to me this is just going to add even more headache
- 2026-01-08, regular session: 0:56:22 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “councilman chandler you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
thank you mayor i i'm torn on this one and the reason why is that there is a we're not that far from what we just turned down and you know we still got the unanswered question of how to eliminate some of this
- 2026-01-08, regular session: 1:23:20 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Thank you for your call to question. Question has been called on the amendment. Any objection to the question on the amendment? Seeing none, we're now voting on the amendment to Resolution 34. All members, please cast your vote. Okay
- 2026-01-08, regular session: 2:11:33 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Questions been called for any objection to ceasing discussion on the motion to postpone. No objection to ceasing discussion. So we are now voting on the motion to postpone. Ordinance 45 until the March 5th, 2026 regular session. All members, please cast your vote
- 2026-01-08, regular session: 2:27:59 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “councilman chandler you recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
thank you mayor i would like to publicly uh thank uh councilwoman mclaughlin she has been uh an inspiration to me we haven't always seen eye to eye but we've come become real close and good friends and i i appreciate what she does
- 2026-03-05, regular session: 0:44:02 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “councilman Chandler you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
thank you mayor do you and the other residents realize that if we vote no on this you still got the same flooding issues sir I really don't mean to be disrespectful but I'm not looking for a magic wand to
- 2026-03-05, regular session: 1:47:15 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Thank you, Mayor. I'd just like to make a statement that we've heard about flooding, we've heard about narrow streets, if we vote this down, the flooding issue is still going to be there
- 2026-05-07, regular session: 1:09:51 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Thank you, Mayor. You do realize that no matter what our vote is tonight, he's still going to be able to develop this? Yes, sir. I realize he can put the R1 in. So what's the difference, in your opinion, of R1? He does nothing that he doesn't have to do
- 2026-05-07, regular session: 2:13:15 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Call for question, Mayor. Question been called. Any objection to the question? There is objection. We're going to put it on the board. We did. I did hear your second. But we are going to vote on ceasing discussion, which is calling for the question. So we will be voting to cease discussion on Ordinance 58. As soon as the clerk gets the board ready
- 2026-05-07, regular session: 2:45:53 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
I discussed this in fair amount of length last Thursday. You can see tonight how much time we spent on zoning cases. Years ago, it was you get one bite at the apple, you get one shot at the target
- 2026-06-04, regular session: 0:44:49 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Thank you, Mayor. How many children are planning on being enrolled here? I don't know the answer to that. About 150. 150 kids. And how many in the up front part, how many different stores will there be
- 2026-06-04, regular session: 0:55:00 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Thank you, Mayor. I'm not belittling anybody. But when you ask a person that comes in to speak about something that's supposed to be this important, and how many children, I don't know, hold on, how many bitches up front, I don't know, hold on
- 2026-06-04, regular session: 1:17:30 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “councilman chandler you recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
thank you mayor right now i'm i i haven't pushed my button yet so i have a problem with the offer that the developer put out if we rezone it he will do x y and z my problem lies in that if we don't rezone it he's going to
- 2026-06-04, regular session: 1:57:09 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Call the question. Call the question. Any objection to calling for the question on this issue? Thank you. All right. Seeing none, we will vote now on the motion to postpone the marquee amendment to the August, so it travels with the ordinance. Every member voted. Any member wish to change their vote
- 2026-06-04, regular session: 2:05:01 in the video (opens in a new tab) (line in the transcript)
Matched words: “Councilman Chandler, you're recognized”
Transcript text after the chair called on Tim Chandler:
Thank you, Mayor. I was working for the city when the 10 year thing was put in and it was put in to reward the people for staying. I agree with Councilman Brown. We need to stop, step back and look at that. Right now, I'm not going to mention which department I talked to an employee of a department today, and they are short, so shorthanded
History
Votes, attendance, and motions and seconds the minutes attribute to this person, one page per year.
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