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Ernesto Cardenas

Commissioner, Los Angeles Board of Public Works

We identified Cardenas’ voice at 41 meetings.

41 of 71transcribed meetings with their voice identified
128questions at the Board of Public Works

Two clips, newest first

  • Ernesto Cardenas · Commissioner · Board of Public Works · Jul 15, 2026 · 3:14:15

    “Since they’re not requirements and they’re recommendations, what happens when those recommendations aren’t followed and trees begin to die?”

  • Ernesto Cardenas · Commissioner · Board of Public Works · Mar 23, 2026 · 1:34:38

    “…is it that we don’t have these watchbooks in an app or digitally available so that it’s more readily available? If somebody can answer that, that’d be great.”

Issues Cardenas raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Talk time, and Cardenas’ other bodies
What they talk about

Streets, traffic and parking took the largest share of Cardenas’ speech with a checked topic: 23%

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the Board of Public Works. 50 of 64 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Streets, traffic and parking23%
Development and land use3.7%
Questions

Cardenas asked 128 questions at the 41 Board of Public Works meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Cardenas’ 122 questions to city departments at the Board of Public Works, 113 went to public works, streets and sanitation.

Who they question: 122 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 2, 2026.

Board of Public Works122 questions to city departments
Board of Public Works: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Public works, streets and sanitation11393%
Transportation and transit97%
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Cardenas’ voice

41, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Cardenas’ first remark.

  1. Sep 30, 2026Board of Public Works0.5 min1:35:46
  2. Sep 23, 2026Board of Public Works1.9 min1:16:00
  3. Aug 28, 2026Board of Public Works1.2 min47:43
  4. Aug 19, 2026Board of Public Works1.4 min1:59:27
  5. Aug 7, 2026Board of Public Works1.0 min43:59
  6. Aug 5, 2026Board of Public Works0.9 min1:07:43
  7. Jul 31, 2026Board of Public Works1.5 min37:59
  8. Jul 15, 2026Board of Public Works0.6 min2:47:27
  9. Jul 1, 2026Board of Public Works0.1 min1:05:50
  10. Jun 26, 2026Board of Public Works4.7 min1:10:02
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  1. Jun 24, 2026Board of Public Works0.8 min1:26:26
  2. Jun 22, 2026Board of Public Works0.3 min1:13:36
  3. Apr 17, 2026Board of Public Works4.1 min1:24:17
  4. Mar 25, 2026Board of Public Works2.1 min34:12
  5. Mar 23, 2026Board of Public Works1.4 min1:03:16
  6. Mar 20, 2026Board of Public Works1.4 min33:32
  7. Mar 16, 2026Board of Public Works1.4 min48:42
  8. Mar 11, 2026Board of Public Works2.0 min35:48
  9. Mar 9, 2026Board of Public Works1.8 min54:41
  10. Mar 6, 2026Board of Public Works0.3 min13:26
  11. Mar 4, 2026Board of Public Works1.6 min40:32
  12. Feb 27, 2026Board of Public Works1.2 min1:26:08
  13. Feb 25, 2026Board of Public Works0.4 min1:07:48
  14. Feb 20, 2026Board of Public Works0.8 min27:29
  15. Feb 4, 2026Board of Public Works4.6 min1:18:39
  16. Jan 30, 2026Board of Public Works0.6 min42:19
  17. Jan 21, 2026Board of Public Works5.3 min1:13:44
  18. Jan 16, 2026Board of Public Works0.1 min1:02:08
  19. Jan 14, 2026Board of Public Works0.5 min1:03:43
  20. Jan 5, 2026Board of Public Works1.0 min1:13:56
  21. Dec 19, 2025Board of Public Works0.8 min52:45
  22. Dec 17, 2025Board of Public Works0.7 min1:11:43
  23. Dec 15, 2025Board of Public Works2.6 min28:31
  24. Dec 8, 2025Board of Public Works3.2 min33:44
  25. Dec 5, 2025Board of Public Works1.7 min33:56
  26. Dec 3, 2025Board of Public Works1.3 min1:27:31
  27. Dec 1, 2025Board of Public Works0.3 min41:46
  28. Nov 26, 2025Board of Public Works0.8 min58:47
  29. Nov 21, 2025Board of Public Works1.2 min1:18:16
  30. Nov 19, 2025Board of Public Works1.2 min1:18:34
  31. Nov 5, 2025Board of Public Works4.3 min12:56
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Cardenas was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Ernesto Cardenas’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Cardenas said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Cardenas or of Los Angeles alone.