Dontaye Ball

Commissioner, San Francisco Homelessness Oversight Commission

Raised homelessness at four meetings.

7 of 11transcribed meetings with their voice identified

1.9min a meeting at the Homelessness Oversight Commission, at least

13questions at the Homelessness Oversight Commission

Two clips, newest first

Dontaye Ball · Commissioner · Homelessness Oversight Commission · May 7, 2026 · 1:41:43
“It is our most vulnerable population. It is, you know, I’ve done some work with young people at Job Corps, and I can remember those young people saying that if if I didn’t have this program, I would be homeless.”
Dontaye Ball · Commissioner · Homelessness Oversight Commission · Feb 13, 2026 · 2:09:57
“How do we support those CBOs to find outside resources outside city resources, right? Is there a working group for these CBOs to find additional revenue sources to help with programming?”

Issues Ball raised, by number of meetings

Homelessness4 meetings

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

Questions

Ball asked 13 questions at the seven Homelessness Oversight Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Ball’s 11 questions to city departments at the Homelessness Oversight Commission, 11 went to homelessness services.

Who they question: 11 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Homelessness Oversight Commission11 questions to city departments

Homelessness Oversight Commission: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
Homelessness services		11100%

Neighborhoods Ball named

One place Ball named in meetings

Lines where Ball 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

Bayview Hunters Point 3 times

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 Ball was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Ball’s voice

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

Oct 1, 2026Homelessness Oversight CommissionHomelessness2.7 min24:45
Sep 3, 2026Homelessness Oversight CommissionHomelessness5.2 min1:47:52
Jun 4, 2026Homelessness Oversight Commission1.6 min1:00:18
May 7, 2026Homelessness Oversight CommissionHomelessness4.2 min1:33:44
Apr 2, 2026Homelessness Oversight Commission2.2 min1:21:06
Feb 13, 2026Homelessness Oversight CommissionBudget and spending2.3 min2:09:43
Nov 21, 2025Homelessness Oversight Commission2.9 min8:25

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 Ball’s voice at seven meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Ball was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Dontaye Ball’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 Ball 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 Ball or of San Francisco alone.