Mike Sullivan
President, San Francisco Commission on the EnvironmentRuns the Commission on the Environment’s meetings; we identified Sullivan’s voice at eight of its nine meetings.
Presides over the Commission on the Environment
Every roll call, and Sullivan’s other bodies
Present at 2 of 2 roll calls at the Commission on the Environment
- Commission on the Environment: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
2 places Sullivan named in meetings
- Treasure Island 1 time
- Visitacion Valley 1 time
Every meeting where we identified Sullivan’s voice
- Sep 28, 2026Commission on the Environment4.3 min1:04
- Aug 24, 2026Commission on the Environment6.6 min0:54
- Jun 22, 2026Commission on the Environment6.1 min1:11
- Apr 27, 2026Commission on the EnvironmentBudget and spending4.3 min0:57
- Mar 23, 2026Commission on the Environment6.9 min1:12
- Feb 4, 2026Commission on the EnvironmentBudget and spending8.3 min1:15
- Jan 6, 2026Commission on the EnvironmentBudget and spending9.1 min1:06
- Oct 27, 2025Commission on the Environment6.5 min1:17
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
We identified Sullivan’s voice at eight meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Sullivan was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Mike Sullivan’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 Sullivan 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 Sullivan or of San Francisco alone.