Bilal Mahmood

Supervisor, District 5, San Francisco Board of Supervisors

Raised Waymo and robotaxis at three meetings. Named Tenderloin 19 times, more than any other official.

32 of 37transcribed meetings with their voice identified

6.3min a meeting at the Board of Supervisors, at least

11questions at the Board of Supervisors

19 of 19present at roll calls through Apr 14, 2026, from the clerk

Also sits on 2 other bodies

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Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Mahmood raised, by number of meetings

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

Where Mahmood sits

District 5 on the current Board of Supervisors map

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Bilal Mahmood sits for District 5. Click a district to open its member’s page.District lines: DataSF, Supervisor Districts (2022), f2zs-jevy, fetched 2026-10-30.

Every roll call, and Mahmood’s other bodies

Present at 19 of 19 roll calls at the Board of Supervisors, roll call through Apr 14, 2026

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Oct 28, 2025 to Apr 14, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 19 of the 39 meetings we hold, through Apr 14, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board: 0.7 min of speech a meeting, range 0.3–1.4. In the same range as seven other members.

Questions

Mahmood asked 11 questions at the 32 Board of Supervisors meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Before getting into my remarks as a member of the Land Use Committee that has been in the hearings for the last several months, I had a couple questions actually to get a better understanding of the implications of Supervisor Chan’s amendments. Would someone from the Planning Department be available to answer some questions?Board of Supervisors · Dec 2, 2025 · Play at 2:05:42

Of Mahmood’s 8 questions to city departments at the Board of Supervisors, 6 went to planning and zoning.

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

Board of Supervisors8 questions to city departments

Board of Supervisors: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
Planning and zoning		675%
Mayor's office		225%

Neighborhoods Mahmood named

8 places Mahmood named in meetings

Lines where Mahmood 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

Tenderloin 19 times, the most of any official
Western Addition 14 times, the most of any official
Hayes Valley 8 times, the most of any official
Japantown 4 times, the most of any official
Haight Ashbury 3 times, the most of any official
South of Market 2 times
Bayview Hunters Point 1 time
Nob Hill 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 Mahmood was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Mahmood’s voice

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

Oct 8, 2026Public Safety and Neighborhood Services CommitteePolicing and public safety11.1 min1:14:19
Oct 6, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials6.5 min36:30
Sep 29, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials7.4 min1:16:03
Sep 24, 2026Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee4.3 min19:19
Sep 22, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials8.8 min59:32
Sep 15, 2026Board of Supervisors8.2 min2:08:23
Sep 1, 2026Board of Supervisors1.9 min17:12
Jul 28, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials15.6 min1:06:06
Jul 21, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials4.9 min1:11:00
Jul 14, 2026Board of SupervisorsHousing and tenants5.8 min1:39:41

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Jul 7, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials9.7 min26:48
Jun 30, 2026Board of Supervisors2.2 min34:19
Jun 9, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials4.7 min1:11:45
May 19, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials13.7 min57:52
May 14, 2026Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee5.2 min1:10:35
May 12, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials10.3 min38:40
Apr 28, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials · Development and land use10.9 min36:55
Apr 21, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials9.7 min21:18
Apr 14, 2026Board of Supervisors2.0 min1:14:24
Apr 9, 2026Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee3.2 min31:42
Apr 7, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials5.1 min1:10:04
Mar 24, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials6.4 min31:28
Mar 17, 2026Board of Supervisors1.1 min20:46
Mar 12, 2026Public Safety and Neighborhood Services CommitteePolicing and public safety1.6 min3:31:41
Mar 10, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials5.0 min1:01:05
Mar 10, 2026San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board1.6 min33:21
Mar 3, 2026Board of Supervisors1.5 min20:47
Feb 24, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials4.5 min55:02
Feb 12, 2026Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee13.1 min1:13:55
Feb 10, 2026Board of Supervisors8.8 min3:34:47
Feb 10, 2026San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board3.1 min15:41
Jan 27, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials11.8 min24:05
Jan 22, 2026Public Safety and Neighborhood Services CommitteeAlcohol, cannabis and business permits3.0 min3:34
Jan 13, 2026Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials13.1 min48:47
Jan 6, 2026Board of SupervisorsDevelopment and land use · Commendations, ceremonies and memorials4.9 min32:22
Dec 16, 2025Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials7.3 min8:26
Dec 9, 2025Board of Supervisors9.5 min32:24
Dec 9, 2025San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board1.7 min37:32
Dec 2, 2025Board of SupervisorsDevelopment and land use · Appointments to boards and commissions11.8 min59:49
Nov 18, 2025Board of SupervisorsBusiness and economic development12.3 min24:00
Nov 13, 2025Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee0.1 min1:08:56
Nov 4, 2025Board of SupervisorsCommendations, ceremonies and memorials5.2 min41:28
Nov 4, 2025San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board1.0 min32:46
Oct 28, 2025Board of Supervisors3.8 min2:45:51
Oct 28, 2025San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board0.8 min21:16

How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

We identified Mahmood’s voice at 45 meetings across five bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Mahmood was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Bilal Mahmood’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 Mahmood 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 Mahmood or of San Francisco alone.