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John Grant

President pro tempore, Los Angeles Board of Public Works

We identified Grant’s voice at 41 meetings.

41 of 72transcribed meetings with their voice identified
98questions at the Board of Public Works

Three clips, newest first

“…if it was— were to be more than an 8th of a mile, the extension, would that mean that the whole, the whole project is subject to HLA, even the 9/10 that was originally granted and exempted?”John GrantMember · Board of Public Works · Aug 5, 2026 · 1:57:03Play at 1:57:03
“The construction of the site, will that take place through Kerwin Place? If you could refresh my memory about how the, the development is to be set up.”John GrantMember · Board of Public Works · Jul 15, 2026 · 2:40:47Play at 2:40:47
“…if the Schedule A is not provided, um, it impedes the ability to assess the bid properly. And therefore, what you’ve presented to us is it automatically disqualifies that contractor proposing. Is that correct?”John GrantMember · Board of Public Works · Jun 26, 2026 · 3:39:00Play at 3:39:00

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Talk time, and Grant’s other bodies
What they talk about

Commendations, ceremonies and memorials took the largest share of Grant’s speech with a checked topic: 58%

By the topic two AI readers agree on for each stretch of their talk, at the Board of Public Works. 88 of 114 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Commendations, ceremonies and memorials58%
Streets, traffic and parking14%
Development and land use6.1%
Questions

Grant asked 98 questions at the 41 Board of Public Works meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Grant’s 64 questions to city departments at the Board of Public Works, 53 went to public works, streets and sanitation.

Who they question: 64 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 2, 2026.

Board of Public Works64 questions to city departments
Board of Public Works: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Public works, streets and sanitation5383%
City attorney / law department813%
Transportation and transit23%
Administration, HR, contracts and facilities12%
Neighborhoods Grant named

2 places Grant named in meetings

Lines where Grant 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
  • Silver Lake 1 time
  • Wilmington 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 Grant was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Grant’s voice

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

  1. Sep 30, 2026Board of Public Works0.4 min1:33:12
  2. Aug 12, 2026Board of Public Works0.3 min1:33:18
  3. Aug 7, 2026Board of Public Works5.3 min11:30
  4. Aug 5, 2026Board of Public Works2.4 min1:03:33
  5. Jul 31, 2026Board of Public Works2.5 min33:13
  6. Jul 15, 2026Board of Public Works2.3 min2:40:33
  7. Jul 1, 2026Board of Public Works1.1 min1:15:31
  8. Jun 26, 2026Board of Public Works17.0 min37:57
  9. Jun 24, 2026Board of Public Works0.9 min1:27:12
  10. Jun 1, 2026Board of Public Works3.0 min1:39:23
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  1. May 29, 2026Board of Public Works4.1 min26:49
  2. May 27, 2026Board of Public Works1.2 min55:01
  3. May 20, 2026Board of Public Works1.0 min40:58
  4. May 18, 2026Board of Public Works8.1 min18:41
  5. Apr 22, 2026Board of Public Works0.5 min1:44:44
  6. Apr 17, 2026Board of Public Works14.3 min35:46
  7. Mar 25, 2026Board of Public Works1.1 min33:33
  8. Mar 23, 2026Board of Public Works1.0 min1:02:12
  9. Mar 20, 2026Board of Public Works0.6 min32:41
  10. Mar 16, 2026Board of Public Works1.5 min1:03:03
  11. Mar 9, 2026Board of Public Works0.5 min1:01:23
  12. Mar 6, 2026Board of Public Works1.1 min12:05
  13. Mar 4, 2026Board of Public Works1.5 min43:33
  14. Feb 27, 2026Board of Public Works2.6 min39:20
  15. Feb 25, 2026Board of Public Works1.2 min1:50:37
  16. Feb 20, 2026Board of Public Works2.8 min24:47
  17. Feb 11, 2026Board of Public Works0.9 min52:58
  18. Feb 4, 2026Board of Public Works1.5 min58:27
  19. Jan 28, 2026Board of Public Works0.5 min53:11
  20. Jan 23, 2026Board of Public Works2.9 min0:58
  21. Jan 21, 2026Board of Public Works4.8 min1:41:56
  22. Dec 19, 2025Board of Public Works0.8 min53:36
  23. Dec 17, 2025Board of Public Works0.5 min1:10:22
  24. Dec 15, 2025Board of Public Works2.1 min30:16
  25. Dec 8, 2025Board of Public Works0.3 min55:49
  26. Dec 5, 2025Board of Public Works6.2 min30:46
  27. Dec 3, 2025Board of Public Works2.7 min1:33:57
  28. Dec 1, 2025Board of Public Works2.4 min43:10
  29. Nov 5, 2025Board of Public Works4.9 min47:19
  30. Oct 31, 2025Board of Public Works1.7 min23:36
  31. Oct 29, 2025Board of Public Works3.2 min52:04
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 Grant was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets John Grant’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 Grant 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 Grant or of Los Angeles alone.