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Patrick Carney

Commissioner, Architecture, San Francisco Arts Commission

We identified Carney’s voice at 18 meetings.

18 of 44transcribed meetings with their voice identified
2.6min a meeting at the Arts Commission, at least
32questions at the Arts Commission

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

Three clips, newest first

“I’ve received small grants, you know, grants for the arts for $1,000 and then one for $10,000, and I used Excel spreadsheets. I don’t have QuickBooks. And, you know, the stringent requirements, is there some flexibility for the smaller grant recipients in their reporting?”Patrick CarneyCommissioner · Arts Commission · Aug 3, 2026 · 1:34:55Play at 1:34:55
“So the jump, jump from the top of the fence onto the roof is very easy. And you said it’s a high-security area. There’s no razor wire or barbed wire up there?”Patrick CarneyCommissioner · Arts Commission · Mar 16, 2026 · 56:46Play at 56:46
“I noticed the name of one of the groups of ground cover is hummingbird sage. Will it attract hummingbirds?”Patrick CarneyCommissioner · Arts Commission · Jan 29, 2026 · 23:38Play at 23:38

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Questions

Carney asked 32 questions at the 18 Arts Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Carney’s 19 questions to city departments at the Arts Commission, 9 went to airports and ports.

Who they question: 19 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Arts Commission19 questions to city departments
Arts Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Airports and ports947%
Water, power and utilities632%
Libraries, arts and culture316%
Public works, streets and sanitation15%
Neighborhoods Carney named

2 places Carney named in meetings

Lines where Carney 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
  • Treasure Island 2 times
  • Bayview Hunters Point 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 Carney was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Carney’s voice

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

  1. Oct 5, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries3.7 min33:32
  2. Sep 21, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries6.9 minVideo
  3. Sep 11, 2026Arts Commission5.8 min45:17
  4. Aug 17, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries16.0 minVideo
  5. Aug 3, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries1.1 min28:56
  6. Jul 6, 2026Arts CommissionCommendations, ceremonies and memorials4.9 min1:45:00
  7. Jun 15, 2026Arts Commission8.4 min0:41
  8. May 18, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries3.3 min5:44
  9. Apr 6, 2026Arts Commission5.1 min31:10
  10. Mar 16, 2026Arts Commission22.7 min5:25
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  1. Mar 2, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries10.2 min48:24
  2. Feb 19, 2026Arts Commission4.4 minVideo
  3. Feb 2, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries2.7 min1:12:54
  4. Jan 29, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries2.6 min20:16
  5. Jan 5, 2026Arts Commission10.6 min38:42
  6. Dec 15, 2025Arts Commission2.8 min15:52
  7. Dec 1, 2025Arts Commission2.9 min50:11
  8. Nov 3, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries2.0 min31:55
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 Carney was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Patrick Carney’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 Carney 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 Carney or of San Francisco alone.