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Jenny Chavez

Vice president, Los Angeles Board of Public Works

Raised 2028 Olympics at four meetings.

48 of 72transcribed meetings with their voice identified
199questions at the Board of Public Works

Six clips, newest first

Los Angeles2:30:39
2028 OlympicsJenny ChavezMember · Board of Public Works · Apr 17, 2026 · 2:30:39The problem here is that the city, as part of our agreement, is the financial backstop for the game. So what we are also financially invested— if LA28 runs a deficit exceeding $540 million, you know who’s on the hook?Open the meeting at 2:30:39
“And, and so at some point there will be another funding report. When is that— when is that coming? When do you expect that to come before this board?”Jenny ChavezMember · Board of Public Works · Sep 23, 2026 · 1:13:59“Can you clarify for me? I understand this is— we are approving 4 different contracts for 5 years, 2 5-year renewals with a 6-month extension for up to 15.5 years. Um, there’s a $14 million amount here that’s across all 4 contracts, correct?”Jenny ChavezMember · Board of Public Works · Jun 24, 2026 · 2:21:06“So I know that this contract has expired and we opted not to go on the month-to-month, that we’re in this like bridge period. Can you explain the rationale for that?”Jenny ChavezMember · Board of Public Works · Aug 28, 2026 · 39:59“I see that this is a renewal of a previous 5-year agreement. Just curious, what, what did the prior term achieve in terms of TMDL?”Jenny ChavezMember · Board of Public Works · Aug 12, 2026 · 1:34:31“I bet you there are near these locations. Um, and so just have a better coordinated, um, method of addressing some of these issues, because as you said, there might be graffiti and vandalism happening at that local shelter, but I guarantee you there’s other activity happening in that area.”Jenny ChavezMember · Board of Public Works · Feb 4, 2026 · 1:17:35

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Chavez raised, by number of meetings

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

Talk time, and Chavez’s other bodies
  • Board of Public Works: talk time not compared. Ran some of its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
What they talk about

Commendations, ceremonies and memorials took 28% of Chavez’s speech with a checked topic

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the Board of Public Works. 192 of 260 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Commendations, ceremonies and memorials28%
Streets, traffic and parking16%
Development and land use10%
Questions

Chavez asked 199 questions at the 48 Board of Public Works meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Chavez’s 176 questions to city departments at the Board of Public Works, 165 went to public works, streets and sanitation.

Who they question: 176 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 2, 2026.

Board of Public Works176 questions to city departments
Board of Public Works: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Public works, streets and sanitation16594%
City attorney / law department53%
Transportation and transit42%
Administration, HR, contracts and facilities21%
Neighborhoods Chavez named

2 places Chavez named in meetings

Lines where Chavez named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Los Angeles
  • Wilmington 2 times
  • Van Nuys 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Neighborhood Councils (Certified) file (City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering (LA GeoHub)). A dot says the place was named, not where Chavez was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Chavez’s voice

48, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Chavez’s first remark.

  1. Sep 30, 2026Board of Public Works6.1 min1:36:29
  2. Sep 23, 2026Board of Public Works3.4 min1:10:17
  3. Aug 28, 2026Board of Public Works0.4 min39:58
  4. Aug 19, 2026Board of Public Works2.9 min1:23:42
  5. Aug 12, 2026Board of Public Works2.2 min1:34:30
  6. Jul 31, 2026Board of Public Works4.7 min39:04
  7. Jul 29, 2026Board of Public Works4.5 min1:19:40
  8. Jul 15, 2026Board of Public Works10.7 min1:07:40
  9. Jul 1, 2026Board of Public Works1.6 min1:53:20
  10. Jun 24, 2026Board of Public Works15.8 min18:12
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  1. Jun 1, 2026Board of Public Works7.7 min53:42
  2. May 29, 2026Board of Public Works10.1 min28:23
  3. May 27, 2026Board of Public Works8.7 min50:22
  4. May 20, 2026Board of Public Works5.6 min27:16
  5. May 18, 2026Board of Public Works4.0 min1:03:52
  6. Apr 22, 2026Board of Public Works12.2 min1:17:38
  7. Apr 17, 2026Board of Public Works6.7 min1:26:00
  8. Mar 25, 2026Board of Public Works10.3 min1:01:21
  9. Mar 23, 2026Board of Public Works10.1 min15:20
  10. Mar 20, 2026Board of Public Works2.4 min35:40
  11. Mar 16, 2026Board of Public Works7.4 min49:42
  12. Mar 11, 2026Board of Public Works2.5 min37:58
  13. Mar 6, 2026Board of Public Works4.5 min13:44
  14. Mar 4, 2026Board of Public Works2.1 min41:32
  15. Feb 27, 2026Board of Public Works2.5 min40:00
  16. Feb 25, 2026Board of Public Works4.9 min1:07:00
  17. Feb 20, 2026Board of Public Works8.0 min28:23
  18. Feb 4, 2026Board of Public Works5.3 min1:02:04
  19. Jan 30, 2026Board of Public Works4.7 min43:02
  20. Jan 26, 2026Board of Public Works3.0 min17:01
  21. Jan 23, 2026Board of Public Works6.1 min2:49
  22. Jan 21, 2026Board of Public Works13.3 min1:09:41
  23. Jan 16, 2026Board of Public Works7.1 min1:05:04
  24. Jan 7, 2026Board of Public Works2.7 min45:55
  25. Jan 5, 2026Board of Public Works6.1 min1:26:17
  26. Dec 19, 2025Board of Public Works9.0 min8:47
  27. Dec 17, 2025Board of Public Works6.0 min30:15
  28. Dec 15, 2025Board of Public Works5.0 min26:32
  29. Dec 8, 2025Board of Public Works2.9 min56:11
  30. Dec 3, 2025Board of Public Works5.5 min1:28:20
  31. Dec 1, 2025Board of Public Works0.7 min51:06
  32. Nov 21, 2025Board of Public Works2.5 min1:14:22
  33. Nov 19, 2025Board of Public Works1.6 min1:04:29
  34. Nov 17, 2025Board of Public Works3.8 min1:16:31
  35. Nov 10, 2025Board of Public Works0.6 min45:48
  36. Nov 5, 2025Board of Public Works2.4 min59:44
  37. Oct 31, 2025Board of Public Works4.0 min22:30
  38. Oct 29, 2025Board of Public Works5.7 min1:07:29
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

We identified Chavez’s voice at 48 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Chavez was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Jenny Chavez’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 Chavez 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 Chavez or of Los Angeles alone.