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Fiona Hinze

Director, SFMTA Board of Directors

We identified Hinze’s voice at 18 meetings.

18 of 20transcribed meetings with their voice identified
48questions at the SFMTA Board of Directors

Three clips, newest first

“…we heard some concerns about the travel time for 12 Folsom, can you talk a little bit about the expected impacts to travel time for the 12 Folsom, if there are any?”Fiona HinzeDirector · SFMTA Board of Directors · Oct 6, 2026 · 1:01:08Play at 1:01:08
“…you have like a specific plan to deal with the overflow? To deal with the overflow folks that are, that are now being displaced? Do you have like a plan for the displacement?”Fiona HinzeDirector · SFMTA Board of Directors · Jun 16, 2026 · 2:06:46Play at 2:06:46
“When you say GO bonds, do you mean a 2026 GO bond or the one that passed in 2024?”Fiona HinzeDirector · SFMTA Board of Directors · Feb 3, 2026 · 2:10:41Play at 2:10:41

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Talk time, and Hinze’s other bodies
  • SFMTA Board of Directors: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 59% and 83% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
What they talk about

Streets, traffic and parking took the largest share of Hinze’s speech with a checked topic: 70%

By the agenda item on the floor when they spoke, at the SFMTA Board of Directors (clerk’s agenda times). 65 of 94 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Streets, traffic and parking70%
Questions

Hinze asked 48 questions at the 18 SFMTA Board of Directors meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Hinze’s 41 questions to city departments at the SFMTA Board of Directors, 35 went to transportation and transit.

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

SFMTA Board of Directors41 questions to city departments
SFMTA Board of Directors: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Transportation and transit3585%
Housing37%
Police37%
Neighborhoods Hinze named

2 places Hinze named in meetings

Lines where Hinze 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 2 times
  • Tenderloin 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 Hinze was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Hinze’s voice

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

  1. Oct 6, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors5.5 min1:01:03
  2. Sep 1, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors2.2 min1:40:49
  3. Aug 4, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors5.4 min32:07
  4. Jul 21, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors1.1 min1:44:42
  5. Jun 16, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors6.2 min2:06:34
  6. May 19, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors8.9 min31:33
  7. Apr 21, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending · City workforce and labor4.6 min1:43:33
  8. Apr 7, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending6.9 min1:47:06
  9. Mar 17, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending9.6 min55:54
  10. Mar 3, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsHousing and tenants3.4 min1:48:30
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  1. Feb 17, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending4.5 min1:32:30
  2. Feb 3, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending4.2 min2:07:30
  3. Jan 20, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors7.2 min1:12:00
  4. Jan 6, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsPublic transit3.6 min1:53:59
  5. Dec 16, 2025SFMTA Board of DirectorsPublic transit4.6 min1:53:37
  6. Dec 2, 2025SFMTA Board of Directors3.4 min2:03:34
  7. Nov 18, 2025SFMTA Board of Directors8.7 min29:44
  8. Nov 4, 2025SFMTA Board of Directors4.4 min58:03
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 Hinze was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Fiona Hinze’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 Hinze 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 Hinze or of San Francisco alone.