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James Butts

Director, Committee, Los Angeles LA Metro Board of Directors

We identified Butts’ voice at nine meetings across three bodies.

4 of 10transcribed meetings with their voice identified
0.4min a meeting at the LA Metro Board of Directors, at least

Chairs the LA Metro Construction Committee; sits on 1 more committee

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Talk time, and Butts’ other bodies
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Butts’ voice

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

  1. Jul 23, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors0.3 min3:07:02
  2. May 28, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors0.2 min38:54
  3. May 20, 2026LA Metro Construction Committee0.1 min0:16
  4. Mar 26, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors3.4 min2:39:58
  5. Feb 26, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors0.1 min1:25:40
  6. Feb 18, 2026LA Metro Construction Committee0.3 min47:22
  7. Jan 14, 2026LA Metro Planning and Programming Committee6.1 min1:58:17
  8. Jan 14, 2026LA Metro Construction Committee0.7 min22:50
  9. Nov 19, 2025LA Metro Planning and Programming Committee3.7 min1:06:57
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Butts was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets James Butts’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 Butts 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 Butts or of Los Angeles alone.