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Art Howard

President, San Francisco Health Service Board

Runs the Health Service Board’s meetings; we identified Howard’s voice at nine of its 11 meetings.

9 of 11transcribed meetings with their voice identified
7 of 8present at roll calls through Jun 11, 2026, from the clerk

Presides over the Health Service Board

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Every roll call, and Howard’s other bodies

Present at 7 of 8 roll calls at the Health Service Board, roll call through Jun 11, 2026

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Excused 1 · Absent 0. Nov 13, 2025 to Jun 11, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 10 of the 11 meetings we hold, through Sep 10, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
  • Health Service Board: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Howard’s voice

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

  1. Oct 8, 2026Health Service Board4.4 min5:22
  2. Sep 10, 2026Health Service Board5.1 min6:00
  3. Aug 13, 2026Health Service Board4.7 min13:44
  4. Jun 11, 2026Health Service BoardCity workforce and labor1.9 min42:54
  5. May 14, 2026Health Service Board4.4 min27:14
  6. Mar 12, 2026Health Service BoardCity workforce and labor2.7 min38:57
  7. Feb 12, 2026Health Service BoardBudget and spending3.9 minVideo
  8. Jan 8, 2026Health Service BoardBudget and spending1.1 min45:19
  9. Dec 11, 2025Health Service Board0.9 min1:11:32
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 Howard’s voice at nine meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Howard was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Art Howard’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 Howard 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 Howard or of San Francisco alone.