People in the chamber
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Showing Ordinary Meeting (2023-04-20 to 2023-04-20).
Speaking Time
Share of Speaking Time
- Brian Stockwell31.6%
- Clare Stewart (former)30.7%
- Amelia Lorentson17.2%
- Joe Jurisevic (former)10.7%
- Frank Wilkie5.7%
- Tom Wegener2.1%
- Karen Finzel2.0%
Total Speaking Time
Pet Phrases & Platitudes
The phrases we keep an ear on in the chamber, counted across councillor speech in the meeting transcripts in Ordinary Meeting. Staff and public speakers are not counted.
“Point of order”
0 mentions across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
 Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
 Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×0 |
 Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | ×0 |
 Karen Finzel | ×0 |
 Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“Community”
1 mention across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
| Brian Stockwell | ×1 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×0 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“I will”
4 mentions across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
| Brian Stockwell | ×2 |
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | ×1 |
| Karen Finzel | ×1 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×0 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“STA”
0 mentions across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
| Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| CSClare Stewart (former) | ×0 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
| JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
Attendance
Meetings each councillor attended in Ordinary Meeting, from the official attendance record in each meeting's minutes.
Attendance Record
| Councillor | Attendance | Apologies | Rate |
|---|
Chairing
Who chaired the meetings in Ordinary Meeting. The chair runs proceedings and speaks between every item.
Meetings Chaired
Contributions
How many times each councillor spoke in Ordinary Meeting, and the longest single contributions.
Contributions per Councillor
Longest Single Contributions
| # | Councillor | Meeting | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amelia Lorentson | Ordinary Meeting, 20 April 2023 | 2 min |
| 2 | CSClare Stewart (former) chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 20 April 2023 | 1 min |
| 3 | Brian Stockwell | Ordinary Meeting, 20 April 2023 | 1 min |
| 4 | JJJoe Jurisevic (former) | Ordinary Meeting, 20 April 2023 | 1 min |
| 5 | Karen Finzel | Ordinary Meeting, 20 April 2023 | 0 min |
| 6 | Frank Wilkie | Ordinary Meeting, 20 April 2023 | 0 min |
| 7 | Tom Wegener | Ordinary Meeting, 20 April 2023 | 0 min |
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Chamber Airtime Composition
Who does the talking in Ordinary Meeting: all attributed speech in the AI transcripts, split between councillors (chairing included), named council staff (the executive listed in each meeting header), named public speakers, and voices the transcription could not identify. Attribution is automated and can be wrong.
Public Question Time
2 public questions were put to Council across 1 meetings in Ordinary Meeting, from the minutes’ Public Question Time sections.
Most Frequent Questioners
- Ian Glew ×2
Names as recorded in the official public minutes. Residents asking questions of their council is the transparency process working.
Meetings
The meetings behind these numbers, by type and length.
About This Data
Every number on this page is computed from three sources, each used for what it is authoritative about, and every number is at most one click from the public record it came from.
- Meeting transcripts feed speaking time, contributions, phrase counts and topics. Transcription and speaker attribution are machine-assisted and can be wrong. Speaking time includes chairing, which inflates the chair's share.
- Meeting headers (the published attendance record) feed attendance, apologies and chairing. These are structured facts, not transcript inference.
- Official minutes (the statutory record) feed motions, named division votes, conflict-of-interest declarations and transparency counters. Extraction is automated against the statutory wording and can miss or mis-parse entries; each extracted record links to the official minutes so it can be verified at the source.
A phrase count is not a formal declaration or ruling. A conflict-of-interest declaration is the transparency process working, not an accusation. Motion and voting figures count what the minutes record; named For/Against divisions became routine practice around 2025, so earlier years understate division detail.
A notified motion is an item a councillor puts on the agenda themselves. These are counted from the minutes' "Notified Motions" section, one per agenda item, credited to the councillor who moved it. Amendments and restatements of the same item are not counted again, and a conflict-of-interest determination on the item is not treated as authorship. A notice withdrawn before it was moved is recorded in the minutes but is not attributed here, because the withdrawal line is narrative rather than a structured record.
Figures for this view cover 2023-04-20 to 2023-04-20.