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JD Beltran

Commissioner, Visual Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission

We identified Beltran’s voice at 18 meetings. Named Golden Gate Park three times, more than any other official.

18 of 42transcribed meetings with their voice identified
3.0min a meeting at the Arts Commission, at least
40questions at the Arts Commission

Next Arts Commission meeting: Mon, Nov 2, 2:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Three clips, newest first

“In the stated motion, it says enter into agreement with the San Francisco Symphony to support 1 free outdoor concert and 12 live performances. Are the 12 live performances also free?”JD BeltranCommissioner · Arts Commission · May 27, 2026 · 28:25Play at 28:25
“I just want to make one more comment that you may not notice unless you look at it more carefully. And I think one of the things that appealed to us was the major central image is actually of a parent throwing a child up in the sky.”JD BeltranCommissioner · Arts Commission · Jan 21, 2026 · 1:06:41Play at 1:06:41
“I’m just getting clarification on this whole thing. Is there an appeal process if an artist is not certified?”JD BeltranCommissioner · Arts Commission · Jun 1, 2026 · 2:30:58Play at 2:30:58

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

What they talk about

Arts, culture and libraries took the largest share of Beltran’s speech with a checked topic: 92%

By the agenda item on the floor when they spoke, at the Arts Commission (clerk’s agenda times). 93 of 126 minutes of their speech have a checked topic. How much they talk about it, not which side they take.

Arts, culture and libraries92%
Questions

Beltran asked 40 questions at the 18 Arts Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Beltran’s 36 questions to city departments at the Arts Commission, 36 went to libraries, arts and culture.

Who they question: 36 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Arts Commission36 questions to city departments
Arts Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Libraries, arts and culture36100%
Neighborhoods Beltran named

3 places Beltran named in meetings

Lines where Beltran 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
  • Golden Gate Park 3 times, the most of any official
  • McLaren Park 1 time
  • North Beach 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 Beltran was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Beltran’s voice

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

  1. Sep 11, 2026Arts Commission1.2 min1:00:31
  2. Aug 19, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries3.2 min19:22
  3. Aug 3, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries3.3 min29:34
  4. Jul 15, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries9.7 min4:46
  5. Jul 6, 2026Arts CommissionCommendations, ceremonies and memorials4.3 min2:11:56
  6. Jun 25, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries13.2 min31:35
  7. Jun 1, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries10.2 min49:07
  8. May 27, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries5.1 min5:07
  9. May 20, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries19.1 min0:23
  10. May 4, 2026Arts Commission2.9 min35:00
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  1. Apr 6, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries7.3 min27:36
  2. Mar 2, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries9.4 min16:30
  3. Feb 2, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries · Budget and spending9.7 min5:22
  4. Jan 21, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries11.4 min32:45
  5. Jan 14, 2026Arts CommissionBudget and spending1.4 min47:12
  6. Jan 5, 2026Arts Commission6.0 min1:29:12
  7. Dec 1, 2025Arts CommissionCommendations, ceremonies and memorials3.5 min1:11:20
  8. Nov 19, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries5.2 min53:43
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 Beltran was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets JD Beltran’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 Beltran 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 Beltran or of San Francisco alone.