The Cabot Lore Repository

Council seats, 2023–2026

Cabot has eight council seats: two from each of four wards, elected to two-year terms. This table is compiled from council packet letterheads, meeting minutes, the council voting record, and the Arkansas Leader's election coverage.

Cabot City Council — Seat-by-Year Roster, 2015–2022

Built Oct 27, 2026 from the pre-2023 council minutes corpus (council-pre2023/ texts and

council-ocr/ OCR of the scanned minutes, 172 minutes files), packet cover letterheads in

council/ and council-ocr/, and the Arkansas Leader's 2020/2022 election coverage in

leader-2020/ and leader-2022/. Companion to the 2023–present roster work; mayors

cross-checked against cabot-mayors-roster.md.

How to read the confidence marks

• - (stated) — a record explicitly ties the person to that seat (packet letterhead,

the minutes' own vacancy notes, a resignation letter, or the Leader's filing/election

coverage, including "filed for re-election" items, which document the seat the member

already held).

• - (inferred) — no record states the seat for that period; the assignment follows from

unbroken continuity of attendance plus elimination against the stated seats.

• - (order unknown) — the two members named held the two seats shown, but no source found

says which of them held which. Both names are listed rather than guessing.

Year-by-year table

Per-member appearance summary

Counts are meetings (of the 172 pre-2023 minutes files) whose attendance/roll-call zone

names the member. First/last are bounded by which minutes survive (see Open questions).

Mid-term changes (with the record's own wording)

1. 1. Early 2016 — W2P1 falls vacant, Doug Warner seated. Mar 7, 2016 minutes list six

members present with Ronald Waymack absent and note "(one seat vacant)." Dallan Buchanan,

named in the Jan/Feb 2015 minutes, never appears again; Doug Warner first appears

Apr 4, 2016. The Jan–Feb 2016 minutes are missing from the city's site, so neither the

vacancy declaration nor Warner's appointment/election is in the surviving record.

1. 2. Jan 1, 2017 term start — Tullos and Moore out; Bivins and Naquin in. A term

turnover, not a mid-term event, but recorded here because the January 2017 minutes do

not survive: the new members first appear Feb 6, 2017.

1. 3. Oct 5, 2020 — Doug Warner (W2P1) resigns. Work session minutes: "City Attorney Ben

Hooper announced he was asked by Council Member Doug Warner to read a letter on his

behalf… Ed Long made a motion to accept Doug's resignation, second by Matt [Webber].

Motion passed unanimously by a Roll Call Vote." The seat stayed empty for the rest of

the year — Dec 14, 2020: "The City has a vacancy in Ward 2, Position 1 at this time" —

even though Warner remained on the Nov 3 ballot, finished second of three (Redd 3,766;

Warner 2,962; Jayson Crumpler 2,739), and reached the Dec 1 runoff, which Stephen Redd

won 507–180. Redd was sworn in with the new council Jan 1, 2021. The same election

turned over two more seats: Maggie Waymack-Cope defeated W3P1 incumbent Norma Naquin

outright on Nov 3 (5,925–3,710), and Brandon Hillenburg led the Nov 3 vote for W2P2

(4,674 to incumbent Damon Bivins's 3,219, with former member Jon Moore third at 1,747)

before winning the Dec 1 runoff 402–284.

1. 4. Mar 7, 2022 — Michael Jones (W1P2) resigns. Regular meeting minutes: the city

attorney "read a resignation letter from Council Member Michael Jones"; the motion to

accept passed 5-0 and a second motion "to declare Ward 1, Position 2 as vacant" also

passed 5-0. The letter, filed with the minutes, is addressed to the "People of Cabot" and

cites relocating out of Cabot for new employment.

1. 5. Mar 21, 2022 — Council chooses to leave W1P2 empty. After interviewing two

interested residents (Mr. Zimmerman and Mr. Davis) in executive session: "Motion by

Mr. Redd to leave the seat (Ward 1, Position 2) vacant until the upcoming election,

second by Mr. Webber. Motion passed by a unanimous Roll Call Vote." The seat was still

vacant at the last pre-2023 meeting, Dec 19, 2022: "Council Seat Ward 1/Position 2 is

vacant at this time."

Mayor cross-check against cabot-mayors-roster.md

The minutes agree with the existing roster for every year of this period, and strengthen

two of its inferred entries (no changes made to that file):

• - Bill Cypert presides over every meeting in the minutes from Jan 5, 2015 through

Dec 17, 2018 — direct documentation across the whole span the roster previously knew

only from 2016/2018 spot records and succession inference.

• - Ken Kincade presides from the first 2019 meeting (Jan 7, 2019) through Dec 19, 2022,

consistent with the roster's Jan 1, 2019 start. The legislative audit reports for 2019

and 2022 (in legislative-audit/) also name Kincade as mayor for those years.

• - Presiding officer note: the mayor presides throughout; Ed Long appears as President Pro

Tempore in Jan 2021 and chaired the earlier "Agenda Meeting" (work-session) portion in

the 2015–2018 minutes format.

Completeness

Of the 64 seat-year cells (8 seats × 8 years): **36 are filled from explicit records,

16 by inference, and 12 remain partially unresolved** — in each unresolved cell the two

members who split the pair of seats are known, but not which of them held which seat

(4 cells in 2015–2016 across W2P2/W3P1, and 8 cells in 2015–2018 across W3P2/W4P1).

All 8 mayor-years are explicit. From 2019 onward every seat is explicit except Kevin

Davis's W1P2 (2019–2020, elimination inference), and 2021–2022 are fully explicit.

Open questions

1. 1. Tullos vs. Moore (2015–2016): which held Ward 2, Position 2 and which held Ward 3,

Position 1? Their successors are documented (Bivins → W2P2, Naquin → W3P1 from

Jan 2017), but no surviving 2015–2016 record labels either man's seat. One later clue:

Jon Moore ran for the Ward 2, Position 2 seat in 2020 (third, 1,747 votes) — suggestive

but not proof of where he sat in 2015–2016. The missing Jan–Feb 2016 minutes,

2014/2016 election coverage, or a 2015–2016 packet letterhead would settle it.

1. 2. Gilliam vs. Prentice (2015–2018): which held Ward 3, Position 2 and which held

Ward 4, Position 1? Successors documented (Reid → W3P2, Webber → W4P1 from Jan 2019);

the 2018 election coverage (not in this corpus) would settle it.

1. 3. Buchanan's exit and Warner's arrival (2016): Buchanan's seat is inferred to be

W2P1 because Warner — documented as W2P1 in 2020 — filled the only vacancy. Whether

Warner was appointed by the council or seated another way, and when Buchanan left and

why, are in the missing Jan–Feb 2016 minutes.

1. 4. Kevin Davis = W1P2 rests on elimination: every other 2019–2020 seat is explicitly

documented, Davis is the only departing member left unassigned, and Michael Jones —

explicitly W1P2 — is the only incoming member left unassigned. A 2020 W1P2 race story

or results table naming Davis would confirm it directly; the Leader's Nov 4, 2020

results pages are too column-scrambled in OCR to extract that race.

1. 5. Conflicting record (resolved): the State of the City slides filed with the

Mar 21, 2022 minutes list the 2021–2022 council with "(Resigned)" reading immediately

after Brandon Hillenburg's name. The resignation letter and the Mar 7, 2022 minutes

prove the resigner was Michael Jones; the slide's tag is treated as an OCR

column-order artifact, not evidence about Hillenburg.

1. 6. Coverage gaps bounding this roster: only two 2015 minutes survive (Jan 5, Feb 2);

2016 minutes begin Mar 7; 2017 minutes begin Feb 6; May 16, 2018 minutes are missing

from the city's site. "First/last appearance" dates are therefore earliest/latest

surviving records, and events in the gaps (notably Buchanan's 2015–2016 exit) may

have happened at meetings whose minutes the city no longer posts.