Karim Salgado

Commissioner, San Francisco Health Commission

We identified Salgado’s voice at 16 meetings.

16 of 20transcribed meetings with their voice identified

1.8min a meeting at the Health Commission, at least

4 of 6present at roll calls through Aug 17, 2026, from the clerk

Three clips, newest first

“Where do we stand as a department on AI data centers? They’re all being concentrated on the southeastern part of the city that lacks trees, lacks resources, is mostly a minority area of the city.”San Francisco43:05

Artificial intelligenceKarim SalgadoCommissioner · Health Commission · Sep 21, 2026 · 43:05Open the meeting at 43:05

“What’s different in this hospital than the old hospital? Because basically you’re only adding 80 beds with the 48 ED beds.”Karim SalgadoCommissioner · Health Commission · Aug 17, 2026 · 2:01:49 “…for the robotic system, we need to buy supplies from them. Is there a dollar amount that we need to meet?”Karim SalgadoCommissioner · Health Commission · Oct 5, 2026 · 2:17:31

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Salgado raised, by number of meetings

Artificial intelligence1 meeting

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

Every roll call

Present at 4 of 6 roll calls at the Health Commission, roll call through Aug 17, 2026

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Excused 2 · Absent 0. Jun 1, 2026 to Aug 17, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 8 of the 20 meetings we hold, through Aug 17, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

Questions

Salgado asked 31 questions at the 16 Health Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

…to the fatal overdoses numbers, um, what do we know about that new synthetic drug that just hit the streets and it already caused the OD of a 16-year-old?Health Commission · Sep 21, 2026 · Play at 39:37

Of Salgado’s 25 questions to city departments at the Health Commission, 25 went to public health and mental health.

Who they question: 25 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Health Commission25 questions to city departments

Health Commission: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
Public health and mental health		25100%

Neighborhoods Salgado named

2 places Salgado named in meetings

Lines where Salgado 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

Excelsior 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 Salgado was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Salgado’s voice

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

Oct 5, 2026Health Commission0.5 min2:17:30
Sep 21, 2026Health CommissionHealth and behavioral health4.5 min0:54
Aug 17, 2026Health CommissionHealth and behavioral health9.1 min2:00:16
Aug 3, 2026Health Commission1.9 min0:22
Jul 20, 2026Health Commission2.0 min10:18
Jun 1, 2026Health Commission2.0 min2:40:53
May 18, 2026Health CommissionHealth and behavioral health1.3 min1:41:12
May 4, 2026Health CommissionHousing and tenants1.2 min2:05:09
Apr 20, 2026Health CommissionBudget and spending1.0 min2:59:11
Apr 6, 2026Health Commission0.8 min0:22

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Mar 16, 2026Health Commission0.2 min1:47:28
Feb 2, 2026Health CommissionBudget and spending2.8 min3:27:50
Jan 5, 2026Health Commission0.7 min0:13
Dec 1, 2025Health Commission1.5 min1:10:25
Nov 17, 2025Health Commission0.7 min0:16
Nov 3, 2025Health CommissionHealth and behavioral health5.7 min0:30

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 Salgado was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Karim Salgado’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 Salgado 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 Salgado or of San Francisco alone.