Imelda Padilla

Present at 45 of 71 opening roll calls at the City Council

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

Absent at opening roll call 26 · voted later in 15 of those. Oct 24, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 72 of the 101 meetings we hold, through Sep 30, 2026.

• LA Metro Board of Directors: 2.4 min of speech a meeting, range 1.2–4.5. In the same range as 10 other members.
• LA Metro Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee: 3.1 min of speech a meeting, range 0.5–6.5. In the same range as three other members.
• City Council: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 31% and 78% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
• Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.
• LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee: talk time not compared. Seated for only 1 meeting in 12 months.

We identified Padilla’s voice at 84 meetings across seven bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Padilla was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Imelda Padilla’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 Padilla said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Padilla or of Los Angeles alone.