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Gerald Turner

Commissioner, San Francisco Public Works Commission

We identified Turner’s voice at 11 meetings.

11 of 14transcribed meetings with their voice identified
10 of 10present at roll calls through Jul 23, 2026, from the clerk

One clip, newest first

  • Gerald Turner · Commissioner · Public Works Commission · Apr 30, 2026 · 37:06

    “I’m probably getting myself in trouble, but, you know, you guys, whoever that team is, they need to be a part of the office residential conversion, because that’s really where we’re running into problems. It’s just, you know, we have such rigid approaches to seismic and all these approach— sorry, building systems.”

Issues Turner raised, by number of meetings

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

Every roll call, and Turner’s other bodies

Present at 10 of 10 roll calls at the Public Works Commission, roll call through Jul 23, 2026

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Dec 11, 2025 to Jul 23, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 11 of the 15 meetings we hold, through Jul 23, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
What they talk about

Streets, traffic and parking took the largest share of Turner’s speech with a checked topic: 61%

By the agenda item on the floor when they spoke, at the Public Works Commission (clerk’s agenda times). 32 of 48 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Streets, traffic and parking61%
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Turner’s voice

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

  1. Oct 8, 2026Public Works Commission6.6 min14:31
  2. Sep 24, 2026Public Works Commission4.4 min1:28:11
  3. May 14, 2026Public Works Commission1.7 min9:52
  4. Apr 30, 2026Public Works CommissionArts, culture and libraries5.5 min4:52
  5. Apr 9, 2026Public Works CommissionBusiness and economic development5.5 min14:43
  6. Feb 26, 2026Public Works Commission3.9 min15:41
  7. Feb 12, 2026Public Works CommissionBudget and spending · Fire and emergency services4.3 min5:30
  8. Jan 22, 2026Public Works CommissionBudget and spending2.7 min1:14:09
  9. Jan 8, 2026Public Works Commission3.6 min15:28
  10. Dec 11, 2025Public Works CommissionBudget and spending8.4 min13:06
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  1. Nov 13, 2025Public Works Commission1.3 min8:34
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 Turner was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Gerald Turner’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 Turner 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 Turner or of San Francisco alone.