People in the chamber
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Showing General Committee (2025-05-12 to 2025-05-12).
Speaking Time
Share of Speaking Time
- Brian Stockwell30.3%
- Amelia Lorentson23.7%
- Frank Wilkie16.8%
- Jessica Phillips10.4%
- Tom Wegener10.0%
- Karen Finzel6.5%
- Nicola Wilson2.4%
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 General Committee. Staff and public speakers are not counted.
“Point of order”
1 mention across all councillors in General Committee
 Amelia Lorentson | ×1 |
 Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
 Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
 Jessica Phillips | ×0 |
 Karen Finzel | ×0 |
 Nicola Wilson | ×0 |
 Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“Community”
33 mentions across all councillors in General Committee
| Jessica Phillips | ×11 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×8 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×7 |
| Tom Wegener | ×4 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×2 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×1 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
“I will”
4 mentions across all councillors in General Committee
| Brian Stockwell | ×2 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×1 |
| Tom Wegener | ×1 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×0 |
“STA”
1 mention across all councillors in General Committee
| Frank Wilkie | ×1 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×0 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
Attendance
Meetings each councillor attended in General Committee, from the official attendance record in each meeting's minutes.
Attendance Record
| Councillor | Attendance | Apologies | Rate |
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Chairing
Who chaired the meetings in General Committee. The chair runs proceedings and speaks between every item.
Meetings Chaired
Contributions
How many times each councillor spoke in General Committee, and the longest single contributions.
Contributions per Councillor
Longest Single Contributions
| # | Councillor | Meeting | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Stockwell chaired this meeting | General Committee, 12 May 2025 | 5 min |
| 2 | Frank Wilkie | General Committee, 12 May 2025 | 3 min |
| 3 | Amelia Lorentson | General Committee, 12 May 2025 | 2 min |
| 4 | Tom Wegener | General Committee, 12 May 2025 | 2 min |
| 5 | Jessica Phillips | General Committee, 12 May 2025 | 2 min |
| 6 | Karen Finzel | General Committee, 12 May 2025 | 1 min |
| 7 | Nicola Wilson | General Committee, 12 May 2025 | 1 min |
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Chamber Airtime Composition
Who does the talking in General Committee: 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.
Meetings
The meetings behind these numbers, by type and length.
By Meeting Type
| Meeting type | Held | Avg length | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Committee | 1 | 4h 21m | General Committee, 12 May 2025 (4h 21m) |
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 2025-05-12 to 2025-05-12.