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Steve S. Kang

President, Los Angeles Board of Public Works

Presides over the Board of Public Works; asked 151 questions at the 59 meetings where we identified them. Named Koreatown most often: three times.

59 of 72transcribed meetings with their voice identified
151questions at the Board of Public Works

Presides over the Board of Public Works

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Two clips, newest first

  • Steve S. Kang · Member · Board of Public Works · Aug 19, 2026 · 1:45:10

    “…there is a notice requirement in the contract that says a differing site condition Uh, you, you have to notify within 24 hours, and a detailed cost breakdown is required within 20 days. So my question is, why did MBCC not comply with those requirements?”

  • Steve S. Kang · Member · Board of Public Works · Aug 12, 2026 · 1:22:14

    “I know that the emergency authorization was granted to ensure that you all were able to complete this before the Summer Olympics.”

Issues Kang raised, by number of meetings

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

Talk time, and Kang’s other bodies
  • Board of Public Works: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Questions

Kang asked 151 questions at the 59 Board of Public Works meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Kang’s 124 questions to city departments at the Board of Public Works, 109 went to public works, streets and sanitation.

Who they question: 124 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 2, 2026.

Board of Public Works124 questions to city departments
Board of Public Works: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Public works, streets and sanitation10988%
Transportation and transit1411%
City attorney / law department11%
Neighborhoods Kang named

9 places Kang named in meetings

Lines where Kang 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
  • Koreatown 3 times
  • Hollywood 2 times
  • Boyle Heights 1 time
  • Chinatown 1 time
  • Downtown Los Angeles 1 time
  • Northridge 1 time
  • Pacoima 1 time
  • Sylmar 1 time
  • Westwood 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 Kang was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Kang’s voice

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

  1. Sep 30, 2026Board of Public Works2.8 min13:35
  2. Sep 23, 2026Board of Public Works5.5 min33:02
  3. Sep 14, 2026Board of Public Works2.3 min24:42
  4. Aug 28, 2026Board of Public Works3.1 min16:35
  5. Aug 19, 2026Board of Public Works5.6 min22:21
  6. Aug 12, 2026Board of Public Works4.2 min49:59
  7. Aug 5, 2026Board of Public Works2.0 min24:49
  8. Jul 31, 2026Board of Public Works7.7 min20:34
  9. Jul 29, 2026Board of Public Works2.8 min26:00
  10. Jul 15, 2026Board of Public Works9.4 min16:07
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  1. Jul 1, 2026Board of Public Works6.4 min19:22
  2. Jun 26, 2026Board of Public Works12.6 min36:50
  3. Jun 22, 2026Board of Public Works3.6 min53:04
  4. Jun 1, 2026Board of Public Works7.0 min25:30
  5. May 29, 2026Board of Public Works20.4 min21:36
  6. May 27, 2026Board of Public Works7.5 min34:28
  7. May 20, 2026Board of Public Works9.1 min3:11
  8. May 18, 2026Board of Public Works6.7 min14:07
  9. Apr 22, 2026Board of Public Works9.4 min51:16
  10. Apr 17, 2026Board of Public Works4.5 min29:14
  11. Mar 25, 2026Board of Public Works8.4 min25:44
  12. Mar 23, 2026Board of Public Works6.5 min14:11
  13. Mar 20, 2026Board of Public Works6.6 min15:03
  14. Mar 16, 2026Board of Public Works7.5 min17:42
  15. Mar 11, 2026Board of Public Works5.6 min10:17
  16. Mar 9, 2026Board of Public Works2.9 min16:53
  17. Mar 6, 2026Board of Public Works9.0 min5:12
  18. Mar 4, 2026Board of Public Works8.0 min13:10
  19. Feb 27, 2026Board of Public Works11.6 min12:44
  20. Feb 25, 2026Board of Public Works7.0 min39:14
  21. Feb 20, 2026Board of Public Works8.0 min14:39
  22. Feb 11, 2026Board of Public Works7.6 min16:34
  23. Feb 6, 2026Board of Public Works3.2 min15:40
  24. Feb 4, 2026Board of Public Works6.0 min19:15
  25. Feb 2, 2026Board of Public Works2.5 min19:28
  26. Jan 30, 2026Board of Public Works1.6 min32:12
  27. Jan 28, 2026Board of Public Works5.6 min36:21
  28. Jan 23, 2026Board of Public Works6.3 min6:04
  29. Jan 21, 2026Board of Public Works18.3 min23:43
  30. Jan 16, 2026Board of Public Works10.8 min29:54
  31. Jan 14, 2026Board of Public Works5.6 min20:46
  32. Jan 7, 2026Board of Public Works7.1 min21:20
  33. Jan 5, 2026Board of Public Works2.7 min49:10
  34. Dec 15, 2025Board of Public Works7.2 min11:56
  35. Dec 10, 2025Board of Public Works3.4 min23:55
  36. Dec 8, 2025Board of Public Works5.0 min14:36
  37. Dec 5, 2025Board of Public Works12.8 min18:47
  38. Dec 3, 2025Board of Public Works11.5 min50:13
  39. Dec 1, 2025Board of Public Works6.3 min20:38
  40. Nov 26, 2025Board of Public Works4.9 min17:39
  41. Nov 21, 2025Board of Public Works7.4 min52:32
  42. Nov 19, 2025Board of Public Works5.4 min47:51
  43. Nov 17, 2025Board of Public Works4.6 min43:54
  44. Nov 12, 2025Board of Public Works6.1 min1:09:50
  45. Nov 10, 2025Board of Public Works4.7 min17:09
  46. Nov 5, 2025Board of Public Works5.2 min0:20
  47. Oct 31, 2025Board of Public Works15.2 min21:48
  48. Oct 29, 2025Board of Public Works10.2 min48:45
  49. Oct 27, 2025Board of Public Works3.0 min17:54
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 Kang’s voice at 59 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Kang was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Steve S. Kang’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 Kang 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 Kang or of Los Angeles alone.