People in the chamber
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Showing Ordinary Meeting (2024-11-21 to 2024-11-21).
Speaking Time
Share of Speaking Time
- Amelia Lorentson37.4%
- Frank Wilkie28.4%
- Karen Finzel10.2%
- Brian Stockwell7.9%
- Jessica Phillips6.0%
- Nicola Wilson5.3%
- Tom Wegener4.9%
Total Speaking Time
Frank Wilkie chairs most meetings (1 of 1 here), so procedural speaking time is part of the mayoral share. Speaking time includes chairing.
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”
1 mention across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
 Brian Stockwell | ×1 |
 Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
 Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
 Jessica Phillips | ×0 |
 Karen Finzel | ×0 |
 Nicola Wilson | ×0 |
 Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“Community”
58 mentions across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
| Amelia Lorentson | ×18 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×15 |
| Karen Finzel | ×14 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×6 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×4 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×1 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“I will”
12 mentions across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
| Amelia Lorentson | ×6 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×2 |
| Karen Finzel | ×2 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×1 |
| Tom Wegener | ×1 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×0 |
“STA”
0 mentions across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
| Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia Lorentson | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Frank Wilkie | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Karen Finzel | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Brian Stockwell | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Jessica Phillips | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Nicola Wilson | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Tom Wegener | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
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, 21 November 2024 | 7 min |
| 2 | Brian Stockwell | Ordinary Meeting, 21 November 2024 | 3 min |
| 3 | Karen Finzel | Ordinary Meeting, 21 November 2024 | 2 min |
| 4 | Tom Wegener | Ordinary Meeting, 21 November 2024 | 2 min |
| 5 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 21 November 2024 | 2 min |
| 6 | Nicola Wilson | Ordinary Meeting, 21 November 2024 | 1 min |
| 7 | Jessica Phillips | Ordinary Meeting, 21 November 2024 | 1 min |
Each link opens the exact spot in the meeting transcript.
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
4 public questions were put to Council across 1 meetings in Ordinary Meeting, from the minutes’ Public Question Time sections.
Most Frequent Questioners
- Andie Grant ×1
- Bernie Haenga ×1
- Linda Martin ×1
- Sharon Chorengel ×1
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.
By Meeting Type
| Meeting type | Held | Avg length | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary | 1 | 1h 47m | Ordinary Meeting, 21 November 2024 (1h 47m) |
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 2024-11-21 to 2024-11-21.