Tim Sandoval

• LA Metro Board of Directors: 0.6 min of speech a meeting, range 0.2–1.7. In the same range as seven other members.
• LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
• LA Metro Executive Management Committee: talk time not compared. Ran some of its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.

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