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Audit: identified issues and fixes applied
Summary
Audit of the article and timeline against the transcript found spelling and quantitative-precision issues; the article text corrects county spelling and flags the transcript's unclear dollar amount.
Spelling: The transcript repeatedly spells the county name as "Coochis"; the accurate name is "Cochise County." The article text uses the corrected spelling and notes the transcript error.
Quantitative precision: The transcript renders the contract dollar amount as "4 million $60,327," which is ambiguous. The article reports the vendor and timeline and explicitly states the numeric rendering in the transcript was unclear and that the official contract or meeting audio should be consulted for the exact figure.
Attribution: Several speakers who moved or seconded motions were not named in the transcript. The article attributes procedural remarks to functional labels ("Committee member (mover)", "Committee member (seconder)") and notes that individual vote names were not specified.
Other checks: chronology, framing, and context were preserved from the transcript; no additional facts or outside details were added.
Severity and fixes applied: corrected county spelling to Cochise County (high severity for proper name), flagged and avoided presenting an exact dollar amount where the transcript was ambiguous (medium severity), used functional labels rather than inventing speaker names where the transcript did not provide them (medium severity).
