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Paula Collins

President, San Francisco Fire Commission

Runs the Fire Commission’s meetings; we identified Collins’ voice at 10 of its 12 meetings.

10 of 12transcribed meetings with their voice identified
9 of 10present at roll calls through Jul 8, 2026, from the clerk

Presides over the Fire Commission

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Every roll call, and Collins’ other bodies

Present at 9 of 10 roll calls at the Fire Commission, roll call through Jul 8, 2026

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Excused 1 · Absent 0. Nov 12, 2025 to Jul 8, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 10 of the 13 meetings we hold, through Jul 8, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
  • Fire Commission: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Neighborhoods Collins named

One place Collins named in meetings

Lines where Collins 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
  • 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 Collins was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Collins’ voice

10, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Collins’ first remark.

  1. Sep 30, 2026Fire CommissionFire and emergency services4.3 min2:40
  2. Jul 8, 2026Fire CommissionFire and emergency services9.5 min2:02
  3. Jun 10, 2026Fire CommissionFire and emergency services11.7 min2:04
  4. May 13, 2026Fire CommissionFire and emergency services8.1 min1:37
  5. Apr 8, 2026Fire CommissionFire and emergency services3.7 min2:14
  6. Mar 11, 2026Fire CommissionFire and emergency services5.5 min1:59
  7. Feb 11, 2026Fire CommissionFire and emergency services · Budget and spending5.9 min1:51
  8. Jan 28, 2026Fire CommissionBudget and spending · Fire and emergency services4.8 min2:18
  9. Jan 14, 2026Fire CommissionBudget and spending6.2 min24:53
  10. Nov 12, 2025Fire CommissionFire and emergency services5.1 min49:18
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 Collins’ voice at 10 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Collins was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Paula Collins’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 Collins 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 Collins or of San Francisco alone.