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112 conflict instances were recorded (9 high, 55 medium, 44 low, 4 ungraded). The recurring fault lines:
- Lockett and Brown Sr. repeatedly voted against the same pro-development items: the Simmons conveyance (5-3 no), the hotel $3M note (6-2 no, Brown Sr. abstained on the 2024-08-19 revision), the $300K go-kart reallocation (6-2), the $48K urban-renewal transfer (5-3), and the go-kart $860K commitment (Jun 8, 2026 high conflict: Lockett–Mays–Flowers, with Lockett demanding the $1.2M pledge parameters be set in the resolution and the city attorney agreeing "parameters should have been set out"). Lockett is the archive's most vocal institutional critic ("bleed this city for the next 30 years").
- Mays (the senior member) sits with Lockett on several 2024 votes but broke away on the go-kart $860K (joining the high conflict) and on the Chief Richardson termination (Mays in support, upheld 5-3 with Frazier raising process concerns — a Mays–Frazier friction point, Apr 2026).
- Jan 2025: council overrides the mayor's removal of the Inspection & Zoning director (all eight members in the conflict record).
- Sep 2025: the CARDs vote — 4-4 with Flowers casting the deciding fifth vote for CARDs (KATV: "The vote resulted in a tie; however, Flowers casted a vote in favor").
- Dec 2025: police executive reclassification ($94K savings) — all members + mayor in a high-severity conflict.
- Feb 2026: Flowers' veto of Resolution 4993 overridden 6-2; her four stated reasons (document "out of context, incorrect at best and dishonest…") vs. the council's URA funding position — a documented public feud.
- Aug 2025: Maize vs. Flowers high conflict over the 1-cent sales/use tax and street maintenance.
Mays, Frazier, Fails for the ordinance vs. Holcomb, Brown Jr., Lockett, Brunson, Denton against — notably Frazier and Lockett on opposite sides of where they were on other items, showing the issue cut across the old alliances.
- Lockett vs. Finley (Sep 15, 2025) — code-enforcement lien process and a FOIA list (councilman and citizen-opponent entangled over the same liens).
- Brown Sr. vs. the majority (2023–2024) — consistent minority position on small-box retail, hotel, go-kart.
- Maize vs. Brown (Mar 18, 2024) — the 4-4 small-box zoning failure (Maize no, Brown Jr. no, Brown Sr. no, Frazier yes, Brunson yes).
- The Jun 8, 2026 special call also logged a low conflict between Lockett and the city attorney over the $100,000 mayor's-special-projects transfer to the Civic Auditorium Complex bypassing Ways & Means.
Pattern: the council's conflicts are overwhelmingly policy-side (who funds development) rather than personal, with three durable coalitions: {Lockett, Brown Sr.} as development skeptics; {Fails, Brown Jr.} as the 2026 tax-proposal bloc (the only 6-2 "for" votes on the 1-cent tax); and the mayor occupying a shifting third position — overridable 6-2 or 5-3 on URA/hotel items, but the tie-breaker on CARDs.
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