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Steve Heminger

Director, SFMTA Board of Directors

Raised Muni budget and service at nine meetings, more than any other official we can identify.

17 of 20transcribed meetings with their voice identified
55questions at the SFMTA Board of Directors
1 of 1present at roll calls through Dec 2, 2025, from the clerk

Four clips, newest first

“I read somewhere that the city of Paris just got rid of their scooter program. Is that true?”Steve HemingerDirector · SFMTA Board of Directors · Oct 6, 2026 · 3:13:51Play at 3:13:51
Muni budget and service“We’re liable to get more riders and more fare revenue that way. And it also means that the general fund itself is growing, which we get a piece of thanks to some foresighted forebears who changed the way we do budgeting in San Francisco.”Steve HemingerDirector · SFMTA Board of Directors · Apr 21, 2026 · 1:30:26Play at 1:30:26
“Lieutenant, I just had a couple of questions for you. Have we done this anywhere else in the city, closed a street?”Steve HemingerDirector · SFMTA Board of Directors · Jun 16, 2026 · 2:01:42Play at 2:01:42
“I know some other Bay Area transit operators have a hedging program where they buy sort of some insurance in case prices go up crazy, which is what they’re doing now.”Steve HemingerDirector · SFMTA Board of Directors · May 5, 2026 · 1:25:56Play at 1:25:56

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Heminger raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Every roll call, and Heminger’s other bodies

Present at 1 of 1 roll calls at the SFMTA Board of Directors, roll call through Dec 2, 2025

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Dec 2, 2025. The clerk’s record covers 4 of the 22 meetings we hold, through Aug 4, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
  • SFMTA Board of Directors: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 59% and 83% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
Questions

Heminger asked 55 questions at the 17 SFMTA Board of Directors meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Heminger’s 54 questions to city departments at the SFMTA Board of Directors, 50 went to transportation and transit.

Who they question: 54 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

SFMTA Board of Directors54 questions to city departments
SFMTA Board of Directors: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Transportation and transit5093%
Police36%
City attorney / law department12%
Neighborhoods Heminger named

One place Heminger named in meetings

Lines where Heminger 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 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 Heminger was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Heminger’s voice

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

  1. Oct 6, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors5.6 min1:25:33
  2. Sep 1, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors2.3 min58:06
  3. Jun 16, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsPublic transit5.6 min45:10
  4. Jun 2, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors1.3 min18:10
  5. May 19, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors8.0 min13:36
  6. May 5, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsPublic transit1.3 min1:25:17
  7. Apr 21, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending6.3 min1:27:45
  8. Apr 7, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending10.7 min19:24
  9. Mar 17, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending13.9 min1:11:59
  10. Mar 3, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsHousing and tenants5.5 min1:55:29
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  1. Feb 17, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending7.9 min11:06
  2. Feb 3, 2026SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending5.3 min2:18:37
  3. Jan 20, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors4.3 min2:12:48
  4. Jan 6, 2026SFMTA Board of Directors5.6 min34:22
  5. Dec 2, 2025SFMTA Board of DirectorsBudget and spending4.7 min16:23
  6. Nov 18, 2025SFMTA Board of Directors1.9 min1:58:39
  7. Nov 4, 2025SFMTA Board of DirectorsPublic transit4.7 min1:27:01
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 Heminger’s voice at 17 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Heminger was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Steve Heminger’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 Heminger 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 Heminger or of San Francisco alone.