How they voted

Member-by-member voting records for the Cabarrus County Schools Board of Education and the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners on budget-cycle motions, with timestamp links into the public meeting recordings. So readers know exactly how each elected official has voted before they vote in November.

Confirmed budget-cycle votes

April 21, 2026 · Cabarrus County Commission

Vote: 5-0 to refuse to hear the CCS budget presentation for FY27. Unanimous; no abstentions or absences reported.

Chair Laura Blackwell Lindsey, Yes
Vice Chair Ian Patrick, Yes
Larry Pittman, Yes
Kenny Wortman, Yes
Jeff Jones, Yes

Five Yes votes in a five-member body; no public report of any absence or recusal. The motion text, mover, and seconder are not in publicly available news coverage; we have asked the County for the minutes that contain the motion as it was recorded. [Confirmed] on the 5-0 tally per WSOC (which describes it as "unanimously voted 5-0 to block Cabarrus County Schools from presenting their 2026-27 budget") and Cabarrus Compass.

Minutes for meetings after January 12, 2026: not yet published

Most other budget-cycle motions from the current dispute do not have a publicly recorded per-member tally. Specifically:

CCS BOE meeting minutes (a public record under N.C.G.S. § 132-1) have not been posted on the district's meeting-minutes index for any meeting after January 12, 2026. That window covers the entire most-contentious-in-years FY27 budget cycle, including the April 6 public hearing and the April 13 budget-adoption meeting.
The April 13, 2026 CCS BOE budget adoption reportedly included a signal of support for raising the local teacher supplement from 13% to 14% Claimed (per Cabarrus Compass; specific percentages pending verbatim verification), but no per-member roll-call has been published.
BoardDocs packets for the same meetings are public, but the published agenda does not by itself record how each member voted; that comes from the minutes.

This page does not yet hold the per-member voting records of every motion this cycle, because those records have not been published. The window of unpublished minutes (meetings after January 12, 2026) covers the FY27 budget public hearing and the April 13 budget adoption. We have filed a request under NC G.S. § 132-1 for those minutes and will publish what comes back.

What we've asked for, and what's coming

CCS BOE minutes, January 12, 2026 through current. Filed (or to be filed) under NC G.S. § 132-1 (public records) and the open-meetings statute. Per N.C.G.S. § 143-318.10(e), minutes of open sessions are public; general accounts of closed sessions become public once the reason for closure expires.
County Commission minutes for the April 21 meeting, including any roll-call sheet attached to the motion.
Meeting recordings with timestamp links for both bodies' key votes. The Cabarrus County Commission posts to a YouTube playlist; CCS BOE meetings are typically recorded as well.
Tabled motions and motions failing for lack of second (FACTS.md verification queue item #2), which the published minutes would surface if the minutes were posted.

The November 3, 2026 election picture

CCS BOE seats are up for election on November 3, 2026. Pam Escobar and Sam Treadaway are two of the seats with terms ending December 2026, per the project's prior research; we are verifying the full slate of seats up for election. County Commission seats are also on the ballot, and any of the five commissioners who voted on the April 21 motion (Lindsey, Patrick, Pittman, Wortman, Jones) who are up this cycle should be surfaced for voters too. Election information on Ballotpedia.

The deep accountability angle for this page is to surface, before voters cast their ballots, how each incumbent has voted on the budget motions of this cycle. That research depends in part on the CCS BOE minutes the district has not yet posted.

Confidence tiers used on this page match the project's editorial standards: [Confirmed] means a primary source or two independent secondary sources. We don't publish unverified per-member votes; we publish the gap.

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