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Al Perez

Arts commissioner, Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission

We identified Perez’s voice at 21 meetings.

21 of 44transcribed meetings with their voice identified
1.1min a meeting at the Arts Commission, at least
74questions at the Arts Commission

Next Arts Commission meeting: Mon, Nov 2, 2:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Three clips, newest first

“Does that mean all grants will be 2 years, it takes 2 years to reimburse, or can there be some grants that can be done in 1 year?”Al PerezCommissioner · Arts Commission · Aug 3, 2026 · 1:24:00Play at 1:24:00
“I think this is a great program for artists that are looking to get into public works and also getting into understanding how to navigate arts organizations and things of that nature, how to apply, how to present your work, how to structure, how to get client-artist relationships down.”Al PerezCommissioner · Arts Commission · Jun 25, 2026 · 42:04Play at 42:04
“All right, thanks for being here. My first question is, were there any previous incident before this that happened?”Al PerezCommissioner · Arts Commission · Jun 23, 2026 · 1:08:32Play at 1:08:32

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

What they talk about

Arts, culture and libraries took the largest share of Perez’s speech with a checked topic: 82%

By the agenda item on the floor when they spoke, at the Arts Commission (clerk’s agenda times). 33 of 50 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Arts, culture and libraries82%
Parks and recreation6.1%
Development and land use3.4%
Questions

Perez asked 74 questions at the 21 Arts Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Perez’s 41 questions to city departments at the Arts Commission, 27 went to libraries, arts and culture.

Who they question: 41 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Arts Commission41 questions to city departments
Arts Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Libraries, arts and culture2766%
Public works, streets and sanitation615%
Parks and recreation37%
Airports and ports37%
Transportation and transit25%
Neighborhoods Perez named

2 places Perez named in meetings

Lines where Perez 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.

San Francisco
  • Excelsior 1 time
  • McLaren Park 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Analysis Neighborhoods file (DataSF (City and County of San Francisco)). A dot says the place was named, not where Perez was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Perez’s voice

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

  1. Sep 21, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries2.9 min1:10
  2. Sep 16, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries0.5 min32:54
  3. Aug 19, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries2.3 min36:44
  4. Aug 3, 2026Arts Commission0.6 min1:23:44
  5. Jul 27, 2026Arts CommissionAlcohol, cannabis and business permits3.2 min4:34
  6. Jul 20, 2026Arts CommissionPublic transit2.2 min29:28
  7. Jul 15, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries1.0 min16:21
  8. Jun 25, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries6.1 min21:44
  9. Jun 23, 2026Arts CommissionAlcohol, cannabis and business permits2.4 min1:08:16
  10. Jun 15, 2026Arts Commission1.1 min13:55
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  1. May 20, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries1.3 min36:25
  2. May 4, 2026Arts Commission0.5 min1:08:22
  3. Apr 15, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries3.4 min47:43
  4. Apr 6, 2026Arts Commission0.1 min27:19
  5. Mar 18, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries3.7 min27:07
  6. Mar 16, 2026Arts Commission4.1 min1:28:46
  7. Feb 19, 2026Arts Commission3.8 min37:13
  8. Jan 21, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries1.4 min43:29
  9. Dec 17, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries4.8 min28:01
  10. Nov 19, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries3.7 min5:38
  11. Nov 3, 2025Arts Commission1.0 min2:04
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 Perez was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Al Perez’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 Perez 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 Perez or of San Francisco alone.