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Audit of draft article and timeline — issues and fixes
Summary
Review of the draft identified transcription and numeric errors (county name and multiple speaker-name variants), unclear monetary figures, and a few attribution ambiguities. The revised article avoids misidentification, flags uncertain numbers as 'not specified' and uses role labels where names were inconsistent.
Spelling: [ {"type":"spelling","description":"Transcript uses 'Kuster County' and variants; the correct jurisdiction name provided is 'Custer County'.","severity":"high"},{"type":"spelling","description":"Multiple variants of the chair's surname appear in the transcript (Cand / Canda / cand). Bidder name appears as 'Ed Lions' but could be 'Ed Lyons'; transcript is inconsistent on surnames.","severity":"high"}]
Clarity: [ {"type":"clarity","description":"Accounts-payable total is garbled in transcript ('$140,6356 cents') and could not be reliably transcribed to a standard dollar amount.","severity":"high"},{"type":"clarity","description":"Some procedural descriptions (who seconded certain motions) were not explicitly recorded; article notes motions and outcomes but not all seconders by name.","severity":"medium"}]
Chronology: []
Framing: []
Misinformation: [ {"type":"misidentification","description":"Using a specific spelling for the chair's last name without external confirmation risks misidentification; corrected article uses role labels instead of uncertain surnames.","severity":"high"}]
Out_of_context: []
Quantitative precision: [ {"type":"quantitative_precision","description":"Grader sale lists $20,000 in road-base material but no tonnage; the board explicitly requested tonnage/price clarification; article flags contingent status.","severity":"medium"}]
Process clarity: [ {"type":"process_clarity","description":"The executive session statutory citations were recited; article must not disclose executive-session content; it reports only outcomes (offer extended) which is compliant.","severity":"low"}]
Context clarity: [ {"type":"context_clarity","description":"The transcript references the Colorado Department of Early Childhood MOU extension; the article must use that exact authority name (it does).","severity":"low"}]
Agency clarity: []
Question emphasis: [ {"type":"omission","description":"Public commenters raised enforcement and safety concerns; the draft included these but should retain direct quote for Starlink suggestion (Mel Dennis), which is included in revision.","severity":"low"}]
Omission: [ {"type":"omission","description":"The transcript named several staff roles (HR Director Bob Smith, County Attorney Dan Slater, Clerk Kelly Camper). The article now references those staff roles as participants in executive session and follow-up steps.","severity":"low"}]
Bias: []
Duplicate: []
Attribution lock: [ {"type":"attribution","description":"Where transcript was unclear on a speaker name or seconding a motion, the article used role labels or noted 'second not specified' to avoid inventing attribution.","severity":"medium"} ]
