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Berkeley council adopts 2026 referral priority list after reweighted-range voting
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The Berkeley City Council voted to adopt a prioritized list of 39 referrals for 2026 after City Clerk Mark Newmanville presented results from a reweighted range-voting tally that produced a three-way tie for the top-ranked items and showed public works dominating the list.
The Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday to adopt a prioritized list of 39 council referrals for 2026 after City Clerk Mark Newmanville presented the results of a reweighted range-voting (RRV) process that ranked the referrals and produced a three-way tie for the top position among public-works items.
City Clerk Mark Newmanville said council members had scored each referral from 0 to 5 and the RRV method reweighted scores to account for how much influence each member had already used. Newmanville told the council the final rankings are included in the staff packet and that three public-works referrals were tied for the number-one slot; he said the tie was left intact because it better reflected how the algorithm is intended to work.
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