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Janine Shiota

Commission vice president, Performing Arts & Literary Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission

We identified Shiota’s voice at 22 meetings.

22 of 44transcribed meetings with their voice identified
2.9min a meeting at the Arts Commission, at least
31questions at the Arts Commission
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Next Arts Commission meeting: Mon, Nov 2, 2:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Three clips, newest first

“Can you explain what the cost of doing business funds— what that designation is? I just haven’t seen it before.”Janine ShiotaCommissioner · Arts Commission · May 27, 2026 · 12:46Play at 12:46
“The $156,000 that is going offsite for the art enrichment, is it going to stay in Lake Merced or is it going to Yeah, where is— is there a plan for it?”Janine ShiotaCommissioner · Arts Commission · Mar 16, 2026 · 28:47Play at 28:47
“Is the double— I’m going to call it double roofline because it is very thick. Is that to hide mechanical or is that functional in any way?”Janine ShiotaCommissioner · Arts Commission · Jun 15, 2026 · 43:28Play at 43:28

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Questions

Shiota asked 31 questions at the 22 Arts Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Shiota’s 18 questions to city departments at the Arts Commission, 16 went to libraries, arts and culture.

Who they question: 18 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Arts Commission18 questions to city departments
Arts Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Libraries, arts and culture1689%
Water, power and utilities211%
Neighborhoods Shiota named

One place Shiota named in meetings

Lines where Shiota 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
  • South of Market 2 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 Shiota was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Shiota’s voice

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

  1. Oct 5, 2026Arts Commission1.0 min43:01
  2. Sep 11, 2026Arts Commission1.1 min1:08:41
  3. Aug 17, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries0.5 min1:10:43
  4. Aug 3, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries4.3 min31:36
  5. Jul 27, 2026Arts CommissionAlcohol, cannabis and business permits6.8 minVideo
  6. Jul 20, 2026Arts Commission3.1 minVideo
  7. Jul 6, 2026Arts Commission6.4 min1:31:52
  8. Jun 17, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries11.0 minVideo
  9. Jun 15, 2026Arts Commission3.5 min13:35
  10. Jun 1, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries10.5 min5:19
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  1. May 27, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries3.7 min13:37
  2. Apr 6, 2026Arts Commission2.7 min1:14:01
  3. Mar 25, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries5.1 min13:19
  4. Mar 16, 2026Arts Commission3.9 min0:46
  5. Mar 2, 2026Arts Commission4.6 min1:40:07
  6. Feb 25, 2026Arts Commission4.9 min11:30
  7. Feb 24, 2026Arts CommissionAlcohol, cannabis and business permits19.0 min0:46
  8. Feb 19, 2026Arts Commission8.2 min5:16
  9. Jan 5, 2026Arts Commission4.8 min23:19
  10. Dec 1, 2025Arts CommissionCommendations, ceremonies and memorials4.6 min45:14
  11. Nov 3, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries5.5 min33:31
  12. Oct 28, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries10.3 min1:14
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 Shiota was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Janine Shiota’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 Shiota 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 Shiota or of San Francisco alone.