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Suzanne Ferras

Commissioner, Visual Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission

We identified Ferras’ voice at 26 meetings. Named McLaren Park three times, more than any other official.

26 of 44transcribed meetings with their voice identified
4.8min a meeting at the Arts Commission, at least
31questions at the Arts Commission
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Next Arts Commission meeting: Mon, Nov 2, 2:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Three clips, newest first

“So the 25-year fade-free guarantee, what happens after 25 years and it starts to fade?”Suzanne FerrasCommissioner · Arts Commission · Aug 19, 2026 · 14:41Play at 14:41
“Are there templates and things that you’re providing the artists and the organizations for reporting templates for the documentation so that they already have— this is how it needs to be reported, these are the sections?”Suzanne FerrasCommissioner · Arts Commission · Aug 3, 2026 · 59:13Play at 59:13
“Let’s say one of the private sector partners wants to do these things but is not really like aware of what organizations there are that they should be reaching out to, is SFAC able to provide like, you know, these are the different districts, these are different organizations, maybe reach out to these folks?”Suzanne FerrasCommissioner · Arts Commission · Feb 18, 2026 · 26:22Play at 26:22

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Questions

Ferras asked 31 questions at the 26 Arts Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Ferras’ 14 questions to city departments at the Arts Commission, 14 went to libraries, arts and culture.

Who they question: 14 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Arts Commission14 questions to city departments
Arts Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Libraries, arts and culture14100%
Neighborhoods Ferras named

11 places Ferras named in meetings

Lines where Ferras 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
  • McLaren Park 3 times, the most of any official
  • Bayview Hunters Point 2 times
  • Castro/Upper Market 2 times
  • Chinatown 2 times
  • Golden Gate Park 2 times
  • South of Market 2 times
  • Treasure Island 2 times
  • Mission 1 time
  • North Beach 1 time
  • Oceanview/Merced/Ingleside 1 time
  • Sunset/Parkside 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 Ferras was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Ferras’ voice

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

  1. Oct 5, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries4.5 min47:41
  2. Sep 16, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries10.9 min0:42
  3. Sep 11, 2026Arts Commission6.0 min53:43
  4. Aug 19, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries5.0 min5:06
  5. Aug 3, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries4.8 min36:17
  6. Jul 15, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries14.1 min0:39
  7. Jul 6, 2026Arts Commission6.0 min4:56
  8. Jun 25, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries15.3 min0:36
  9. Jun 23, 2026Arts CommissionAlcohol, cannabis and business permits6.0 min0:52
  10. Jun 17, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries3.1 min42:21
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  1. Jun 1, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries2.2 min4:22
  2. May 4, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries6.1 min4:57
  3. Apr 28, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries5.8 min49:39
  4. Apr 15, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries8.1 min1:02
  5. Apr 6, 2026Arts Commission5.1 min39:52
  6. Mar 18, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries19.3 min0:41
  7. Mar 2, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries8.2 min8:53
  8. Feb 24, 2026Arts Commission0.5 min29:05
  9. Feb 18, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries23.0 min1:02
  10. Jan 21, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries8.1 min0:34
  11. Jan 5, 2026Arts Commission4.9 min48:44
  12. Dec 17, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries10.8 min0:47
  13. Dec 8, 2025Arts CommissionAppointments to boards and commissions0.7 min9:05
  14. Dec 1, 2025Arts Commission7.1 min4:40
  15. Nov 19, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries21.0 min0:34
  16. Nov 3, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries4.3 min41:02
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 Ferras was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Suzanne Ferras’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 Ferras 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 Ferras or of San Francisco alone.