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Vanita Louie

Commissioner, San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission

We identified Louie’s voice at 10 meetings.

10 of 11transcribed meetings with their voice identified
15questions at the Recreation and Park Commission
9 of 9present at roll calls through Jul 16, 2026, from the clerk

Two clips, newest first

  • Vanita Louie · Commissioner · Recreation and Park Commission · Apr 16, 2026 · 2:36:06

    “I’m going to probably say the same thing that the other commissioners have said, but, you know, having sat here for 5 years, One of the successes of this department is partnership. And money does not fall from the skies. We’re not accepting this or voting on this with any predetermination of any final design.”

  • Vanita Louie · Commissioner · Recreation and Park Commission · Jul 16, 2026 · 2:51:19

    “Antonio, can you update us on how the garage is doing since we’ve taken that over?”

Every roll call, and Louie’s other bodies

Present at 9 of 9 roll calls at the Recreation and Park Commission, roll call through Jul 16, 2026

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Nov 20, 2025 to Jul 16, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 9 of the 12 meetings we hold, through Jul 16, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
  • Recreation and Park Commission: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 56% and 83% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
Questions

Louie asked 15 questions at the 10 Recreation and Park Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Louie’s 12 questions to city departments at the Recreation and Park Commission, 12 went to parks and recreation.

Who they question: 12 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Recreation and Park Commission12 questions to city departments
Recreation and Park Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Parks and recreation12100%
Neighborhoods Louie named

2 places Louie named in meetings

Lines where Louie 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
  • Chinatown 3 times
  • 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 Louie was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Louie’s voice

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

  1. Sep 17, 2026Recreation and Park CommissionParks and recreation4.0 min5:20
  2. Jul 16, 2026Recreation and Park Commission0.8 min4:36
  3. Jun 18, 2026Recreation and Park CommissionParks and recreation4.3 min4:08
  4. May 21, 2026Recreation and Park CommissionParks and recreation6.2 min10:31
  5. Apr 16, 2026Recreation and Park CommissionParks and recreation2.8 min13:33
  6. Mar 19, 2026Recreation and Park CommissionArts, culture and libraries1.4 min38:37
  7. Feb 19, 2026Recreation and Park CommissionParks and recreation6.1 min24:52
  8. Jan 15, 2026Recreation and Park Commission0.4 min1:08:09
  9. Dec 18, 2025Recreation and Park CommissionParks and recreation1.5 min1:01:55
  10. Nov 20, 2025Recreation and Park Commission1.4 min18:28
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 Louie was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Vanita Louie’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 Louie 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 Louie or of San Francisco alone.