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Ron Benitez

Commissioner, San Francisco Small Business Commission

We identified Benitez’s voice at eight meetings.

8 of 9transcribed meetings with their voice identified
7 of 8present at roll calls, from the clerk
Every roll call, and Benitez’s other bodies

Present at 7 of 8 roll calls at the Small Business Commission

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 1. Oct 27, 2025 to Aug 24, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 8 of the 9 meetings we hold, through Aug 24, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
Neighborhoods Benitez named

One place Benitez named in meetings

Lines where Benitez 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
  • Japantown 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 Benitez was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Benitez’s voice

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

  1. Sep 28, 2026Small Business CommissionBusiness and economic development2.3 min18:38
  2. Aug 24, 2026Small Business CommissionBusiness and economic development2.6 min20:36
  3. Apr 27, 2026Small Business CommissionBusiness and economic development · Health and behavioral health4.6 min33:00
  4. Mar 23, 2026Small Business CommissionBusiness and economic development2.7 min20:02
  5. Feb 23, 2026Small Business CommissionBusiness and economic development · Alcohol, cannabis and business permits3.0 min26:49
  6. Jan 26, 2026Small Business CommissionBusiness and economic development1.6 min24:11
  7. Dec 8, 2025Small Business CommissionAlcohol, cannabis and business permits · Business and economic development6.5 min23:09
  8. Oct 27, 2025Small Business CommissionBusiness and economic development0.7 min7:43
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 Benitez was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Ron Benitez’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 Benitez 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 Benitez or of San Francisco alone.