People in the chamber
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Showing Ordinary Meeting (2026-04-16 to 2026-04-16).
Speaking Time
Share of Speaking Time
- Amelia Lorentson34.2%
- Frank Wilkie23.4%
- Jessica Phillips18.2%
- Brian Stockwell10.8%
- Nicola Wilson6.2%
- Karen Finzel3.9%
- Tom Wegener3.4%
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”
3 mentions across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
 Jessica Phillips | ×2 |
 Frank Wilkie | ×1 |
 Amelia Lorentson | ×0 |
 Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
 Karen Finzel | ×0 |
 Nicola Wilson | ×0 |
 Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“Community”
17 mentions across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
| Jessica Phillips | ×9 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×4 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×4 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
| Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“I will”
11 mentions across all councillors in Ordinary Meeting
| Jessica Phillips | ×6 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×3 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×1 |
| Tom Wegener | ×1 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×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% |
| Jessica Phillips | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Brian Stockwell | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Nicola Wilson | Present 1 of 1 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Karen Finzel | 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, 16 April 2026 | 6 min |
| 2 | Brian Stockwell | Ordinary Meeting, 16 April 2026 | 5 min |
| 3 | Jessica Phillips | Ordinary Meeting, 16 April 2026 | 4 min |
| 4 | Tom Wegener | Ordinary Meeting, 16 April 2026 | 2 min |
| 5 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 16 April 2026 | 2 min |
| 6 | Karen Finzel | Ordinary Meeting, 16 April 2026 | 1 min |
| 7 | Nicola Wilson | Ordinary Meeting, 16 April 2026 | 1 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.
Meetings
The meetings behind these numbers, by type and length.
By Meeting Type
| Meeting type | Held | Avg length | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary | 1 | 2h 52m | Ordinary Meeting, 16 April 2026 (2h 52m) |
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 2026-04-16 to 2026-04-16.