Audit of draft article and required revisions
Summary
Audit identified transcript spelling inconsistencies, unclear speaker attributions, and a probable transcription error naming the district; revisions were made to avoid misidentification and to note uncertainties explicitly.
What’s right: The draft correctly reports certification of results, oath administration, unanimous leadership elections and the master motion approving items 5.01–5.04. Votes and meeting schedule are accurately reflected from the transcript.
Problems & fixes: 1) Spelling inconsistencies and transcription errors (severity: medium). The transcript contains multiple, conflicting spellings for at least one director ("Erin Bursius" vs. "Erin Brocious") and a likely error where the district name is transcribed as "Shamans" in one place. Fix: The article reports names as they appear in the record and explicitly notes these inconsistencies, and normalizes the district name to "Neshaminy School District" (from the provided normalization list) while flagging the transcription error.
2) Speaker identification (severity: medium). Several motions and seconds are recorded without a clear named mover in the transcript. Fix: Where a mover or seconder is not named in the record, the article avoids inventing an identity and records "not specified" for mover/second; when a second is named in the transcript (for example, "Second by missus Brocious"), that name is recorded.
3) Provenance precision (severity: low). Timeline entries must link to the first and last transcript segments for each topic. Fix: Timeline entries were adjusted to use the earliest and latest SEG IDs where the topic appears; when exact boundaries were unclear, ends were set to the last clearly on-topic SEG.
4) Quantitative precision (severity: low). The transcript lists vote tallies without naming every voter; the article reports the recorded tallies (9–0) and does not attribute individual votes to named board members beyond the roll call.
After these fixes, the article text was revised to explicitly note where the transcript contains inconsistent spellings or probable transcription errors and to avoid any assertion not supported by the meeting record.
