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Robert Vergara

Commissioner, Seat 4 Historian, San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission

We identified Vergara’s voice at 12 meetings.

12 of 18transcribed meetings with their voice identified
1.6min a meeting at the Historic Preservation Commission, at least
32questions at the Historic Preservation Commission
16 of 16present at roll calls through Aug 5, 2026, from the clerk
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Next Historic Preservation Commission meeting: Wed, Nov 4, 12:30 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Four clips, newest first

“I guess I understand, but it just seems that artwork is It’s part of the building. It just seems that if we’re talking about a city landmark, that the Historic Preservation Commission should have some say.”Robert VergaraCommissioner · Historic Preservation Commission · Nov 19, 2025 · 25:26Play at 25:26
“Assuming you get all the yeses that you need, When do you expect to have the project complete?”Robert VergaraCommissioner · Historic Preservation Commission · Apr 1, 2026 · 1:51:37Play at 1:51:37
“Just wondering if there’s any information on the proposed changes to the Historic Preservation Commission that the board was going to— Board of Supervisors is, I guess, planning to send to the voters in November?”Robert VergaraCommissioner · Historic Preservation Commission · Jul 15, 2026 · 7:03Play at 7:03
“…you tell us— give us an update on the status of the Historic Preservation Commission with regard to the Proposition E task force?”Robert VergaraCommissioner · Historic Preservation Commission · Jul 1, 2026 · 7:11Play at 7:11

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Every roll call

Present at 16 of 16 roll calls at the Historic Preservation Commission, roll call through Aug 5, 2026

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Nov 19, 2025 to Aug 5, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 17 of the 20 meetings we hold, through Aug 19, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
Questions

Vergara asked 32 questions at the 12 Historic Preservation Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Vergara’s 27 questions to city departments at the Historic Preservation Commission, 26 went to planning and zoning.

Who they question: 27 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Historic Preservation Commission27 questions to city departments
Historic Preservation Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Planning and zoning2696%
Clerk and legislative staff14%
Neighborhoods Vergara named

3 places Vergara named in meetings

Lines where Vergara 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
  • West of Twin Peaks 2 times
  • Chinatown 1 time
  • Glen Park 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 Vergara was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Vergara’s voice

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

  1. Aug 5, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation4.9 min7:57
  2. Jul 15, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionDevelopment and land use1.6 min26:53
  3. Jul 1, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation1.6 min7:05
  4. Jun 17, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation1.9 min14:52
  5. Jun 3, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation0.5 min1:27:28
  6. May 20, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation2.1 min4:22
  7. Apr 1, 2026Historic Preservation Commission1.6 min1:02:02
  8. Mar 18, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation3.6 min8:35
  9. Jan 21, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation0.8 min3:01:49
  10. Jan 7, 2026Historic Preservation CommissionBusiness and economic development1.8 min3:30
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  1. Dec 17, 2025Historic Preservation CommissionHistoric preservation3.2 min11:39
  2. Nov 19, 2025Historic Preservation Commission4.3 min20:50
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 Vergara was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Robert Vergara’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 Vergara 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 Vergara or of San Francisco alone.