Contested Votes

37 actions where at least one councilor dissented — filtered by "Kenney"

Outcome: All Denied (60) Tabled (102) Approved (940)
Dissenter: All ALL Burton Cryans Gatsas Kenney Liot Hill Pappas Pignatelli Prescott St. Hilaire Stephen Stevens Sununu Van Ostern Volinsky Warmington Wheeler Wieczorek
Date Item Description Vendor Amount Outcome Dissent
02/04/26 #1 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Stephen, seconded by Councilor Liot Hill, voted to adopt this item for the purpose of discussion. Following discussion, with Councilors Kenney, denied
Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
08/27/25 #81 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Stevens, seconded by Councilor Liot Hill, moved to adopt this item for discussion. Following discussion, the Governor and Council, with Council Trustees of Dartmouth Col $219,376 denied
Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
07/09/25 #10 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Liot Hill, seconded by Councilor Kenney, moved to adopt this item for discussion. Following discussion, the Governor and Council, with Councilo denied
Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
06/25/25 #68 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Liot Hill, seconded by Councilor Stevens, with Councilors Kenney, Stephen, and Wheeler voting no, failed to authorize the request to establish $109,601 denied
Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
06/25/25 #93 FAILED – The Governor and Council, with Councilors Kenney, Stephen, and Wheeler voting no, failed to authorize the request to enter into a contract with Strategic Marketing & Research Insights, LLC, I Strategic Marketing & Res $1.2M denied
Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
06/04/25 #100 FAILED - The Governor and Council, with Councilors Kenney, Stephen, and Wheeler voting no, failed to authorize the request to enter into a sole source amendment to an existing contract with Alvarez & RA Properties, LLC $188,076 denied
Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
05/21/25 #42 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Stevens, seconded by Councilor Liot Hill moved to adopt this item for discussion. Following discussion, the Governor and Council, with Councilo $78,984 denied
Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
05/07/25 #54 FAILED - Authorize to enter into a lease agreement with Axon Enterprise, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ in the amount of $2,099,998.84, for Axon TASER® 10 Energy Weapons. Effective upon G&C approval through Apr Axon Enterprise, Inc. $2.1M denied
Kenney, Stevens, Stephen, Wheeler
04/23/25 #16 FAILED - The Governor and Council, with Councilors Kenney, Stephen, and Wheeler voting no and Councilor Stevens abstaining, failed to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the New Hampshire De $521,420 denied
Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
04/23/25 #9 FAILED - Authorize to enter into a sole source amendment to an existing contract with Maximus US Services, Inc., McLean, VA (originally approved by G&C on 6/30/21, Item #13), to continue providing com Maximus US Services, Inc. $4.1M denied
Liot Hill, Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
04/23/25 #35 FAILED - Authorize to enter into a contract with Amy C. McClellan, East Burke, VT in an amount up to and not to exceed $30,000 for the provision of Real Estate Appraisal Expert Consultant Services. Ef New Hampshire Association $362,012 denied
Kenney, Liot Hill, Stevens, Stephen, Wheeler
02/26/25 #16 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Stevens, seconded by Councilor Stephen voted to adopt this item for the purpose of discussion. Following discussion, with Councilors Kenney, St $7.5M denied
Kenney, Stephen, Wheeler
08/07/24 #23 FAILED – Authorize the Bureau of Highway Maintenance to enter into a rental agreement with United Rentals (North America), Inc., for an amount not to exceed $298,710, based on a rental agreement for t $298,710 denied
Warmington, Kenney, Stevens, Gatsas, Wheeler
11/29/23 #20 FAILED - The Governor and Council on a roll call vote as follows: Councilor Kenney – no, Councilor Warmington – yes, Councilor Stevens – no, Councilor Gatsas – no, and Councilor Wheeler – no, failed t Concord Feminist Health C $361,892 denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Wheeler
11/29/23 #21 FAILED - The Governor and Council on a roll call vote as follows: Councilor Kenney – no, Councilor Warmington – yes, Councilor Stevens – no, Councilor Gatsas – no, and Councilor Wheeler – no, failed t Planned Parenthood of Nor $773,474 denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Wheeler
11/29/23 #22 FAILED - The Governor and Council on a roll call vote as follows: Councilor Kenney – no, Councilor Warmington – yes, Councilor Stevens – no, Councilor Gatsas – no, and Councilor Wheeler – no, failed t Feminist Health Center of $144,946 denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Wheeler
09/07/22 #90 Authorize the request to retroactively pay the New Hampshire Department of Transportation $230,644.16, which is 33% of the amount that Granite State Hospitality, LLC, the developer-operator of Hookset $10,386 denied
Kenney, Stevens, Wheeler
07/27/22 #15 FAILED - With Councilors Kenney, Stevens, Gatsas, and Wheeler voting no, the Governor and Council failed to authorize to enter into a contract with Concord Feminist Health Center d/b/a Equality Health JSI Research & Training I $515,000 denied
Kenney, Stevens, Gatsas, Wheeler
07/27/22 #15 FAILED - With Councilors Kenney, Stevens, Gatsas, and Wheeler voting no, the Governor and Council failed to authorize to enter into a contract with the Joan G. Lovering Health Center, Greenfield, NH, JSI Research & Training I $515,000 denied
Kenney, Stevens, Gatsas, Wheeler
07/27/22 #15 FAILED - With Councilors Kenney, Stevens, Gatsas, and Wheeler voting no, the Governor and Council failed to authorize to enter into a contract with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Colchest JSI Research & Training I $515,000 denied
Kenney, Stevens, Gatsas, Wheeler
03/23/22 #34 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Warmington seconded by Councilor Stevens and with Councilors, Kenney, Warmington, Stevens, Gatsas, and Wheeler voting no, failed to approve the University of Massachuset $99,997 denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Warmington, Wheeler
03/23/22 #34 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Warmington seconded by Councilor Kenney, and with Councilors Kenney, Stevens, Gatsas and Wheeler voting no, failed to approve the request to ac University of Massachuset $99,997 denied
Kenney, Stevens, Gatsas, Wheeler
03/23/22 #34 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Warmington seconded by Councilor Kenney, and with Councilors, Kenney, Warmington, Stevens, Gatsas, and Wheeler voting no, failed to approve the University of Massachuset $99,997 denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Warmington, Wheeler
01/12/22 #13 FAILED – Councilor Warmington requested a roll call vote. On a roll call vote as follows: Councilor Kenney – no, Councilor Warmington – yes, Councilor Stevens – no, Councilor Gatsas – no, and Councilo JSI Research and Training $1.5M denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Wheeler
12/22/21 #41 as follows: Authorized: Amoskeag Health, Coos County Family Health, and Lamprey Health Care on motion of Councilor Kenney, seconded by Councilor Stevens, and with Councilors Gatsas and Wheeler voting $20.2M denied
Gatsas, Wheeler, Warmington, Kenney, Stevens
12/08/21 #85 FAILED – Councilors Kenney, Stevens and Wheeler voted no, therefore, the Governor and Council failed to accept and place on file the report of all vehicles which have non-business use exceeding 20% fo denied
Kenney, Stevens, Wheeler
10/13/21 #9 FAILED – The Governor and Council on a roll call vote as follows: Councilor Kenney – no, Councilor Warmington – yes, Councilor Stevens – no, Councilor Gatsas – no, and Councilor Wheeler – no, failed t ConvenientMD LLC $237,600 denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Wheeler
10/13/21 #9 FAILED – The Governor and Council on a roll call vote as follows: Councilor Kenney – no, Councilor Warmington – yes, Councilor Stevens – no, Councilor Gatsas – no, and Councilor Wheeler – no, failed t ConvenientMD LLC $237,600 denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Wheeler
09/15/21 #9 TABLED – The Governor and Council on a roll call vote as follows: Councilor Kenney – no, Councilor Warmington – yes, Councilor Stevens – yes, Councilor Gatsas – no, and Councilor Wheeler – no, failed $200,000 denied
Kenney, Wheeler
08/04/21 #16 Part 1 and Part 2 of this item was voted on separately. (Part 1): the Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Kenney, seconded by Councilor Warmington authorized to accept and place on file the Bu $5,554 denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Wheeler
06/30/21 #97 FAILED – Councilors Kenney, Warmington, Stevens and Gatsas voted no, therefore the Governor and Council failed to approve the request of the Division of Health Professionals to enter into a contract w denied
Gatsas, Kenney, Stevens, Warmington
12/19/18 #18 FAILED - The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Volinsky, seconded by Councilor Pappas, and with Councilors Kenney, Volinsky and Wheeler voting no, failed to authorize the request to enter in $45,000 denied
Kenney, Volinsky, Wheeler
02/01/17 #69 FAILED — Councilors Kenney, Volinsky, Prescott and Wheeler voted no, therefore, the Division of Personnel’s request for waiver of classification decisions failed. Effective upon G&C approval. denied
Kenney, Prescott, Volinsky, Wheeler
07/22/15 #66 FAILED — Councilors Kenney, Sununu and Wheeler voted no, therefore, this item fails to authorize to establish an entrance salary of $96,149.84, salary grade GG, maximum, for Richard Head as Site Evalu $96,150 denied
Kenney, Sununu, Wheeler
07/22/15 #67 FAILED — Councilors Kenney, Sununu and Wheeler voted no, therefore, this item fails to authorize to award grant funds in the amount of $997,500 to ACE-Manchester Solar LLC, to install, own and operate $997,500 denied
Kenney, Sununu, Wheeler
06/24/15 #144 FAILED – The Governor and Councilors, with Councilors Kenney, Van Ostern, and Pappas voting no, failed to authorize Hopgood Bixby Shore Family Trust’s request to perform work on Lake Winnipesaukee in denied
Kenney, Van Ostern, Pappas
04/22/15 #80 FAILED – The Governor and Council on motion of Councilor Van Ostern, seconded by Councilor Pappas, and with Councilors Kenney, Sununu and Pappas voting no, failed to authorize the request of the Divis W.B. Mason Co Inc. $5.0M denied
Kenney, Sununu, Pappas