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Mike Petouhoff

Chair, Oakland Budget Advisory Commission

Raised city budget and Measure E at five meetings.

5 of 6transcribed meetings with their voice identified
Talk time, and Petouhoff’s other bodies
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Petouhoff’s voice

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

  1. Sep 15, 2026Budget Advisory Commission26.1 min2:53
  2. Aug 12, 2026Budget Advisory Commission37.4 min6:01
  3. Jul 8, 2026Budget Advisory Commission70.5 min6:58
  4. Mar 11, 2026Budget Advisory Commission36.5 min1:46
  5. Dec 3, 2025Budget Advisory Commission15.8 min3:33
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 Petouhoff’s voice at five meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Petouhoff was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Mike Petouhoff’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 Petouhoff 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 Petouhoff or of Oakland alone.