Kathryn Barger

1st vice chair, LA County Supervisor, District 5, Los Angeles LA Metro Board of Directors

Raised 2028 Olympics at four meetings.

6 of 11transcribed meetings with their voice identified

2.5min a meeting at the LA Metro Board of Directors, at least

Also sits on 2 committees

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Two clips, newest first

Kathryn Barger · 1st vice chair · LA Metro Board of Directors · Sep 16, 2026 · 32:36
“It’s about identifying the problems and fixing them and owning them. And so, um, it’s not insurmountable, and I’m confident we’ll be ready for the Olympics.”
Kathryn Barger · Member · LA Metro Board of Directors · Jan 14, 2026 · 1:03:03
“One of the things that came to mind for me, um, first of all, the fiscal challenges are real, and that’s a huge gap, and we know that it’s not going to be an easy lift. But one of the things I did not hear was figuring in with an estimated 1.2 million additional users per day during the Olympics.”

Issues Barger raised, by number of meetings

2028 Olympics4 meetings

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

Talk time, and Barger’s other bodies

LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee: talk time not compared. Seated for only 7 meetings in 12 months.
LA Metro Executive Management Committee: talk time not compared. Fewer than four members can be compared fairly.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Barger’s voice

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

Sep 16, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors2.2 min30:02
Jul 23, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors4.7 min4:14:42
May 28, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors8.7 min20:21
Apr 15, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors4.1 min26:06
Mar 26, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors2.8 min2:29:35
Mar 19, 2026LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee0.9 min23:42
Mar 19, 2026LA Metro Executive Management Committee2.7 min30:16
Jan 15, 2026LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee7.3 min12:51
Jan 15, 2026LA Metro Executive Management Committee1.2 min42:48
Jan 14, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors4.7 min22:53

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

We identified Barger’s voice at 10 meetings across three bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Barger was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Kathryn Barger’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 Barger 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 Barger or of Los Angeles alone.