# Speaker roster — Terre Haute City Council, 2026-05-14

Resolved against the closed candidate set from the published roll call
(`Ledger/Entities/Bodies/terre-haute-city-council.md`): Azar, Boland, Chalos,
DeBaun, Dinkel, Hinton, Loudermilk, Nation, Thompson — plus the agenda's
document-credited City Clerk, Michelle L. Edwards, and the meeting's outside
presenters/staff (named only where the transcript itself names them).

**20 diarized voice labels carry substantial speech** in this transcript (the
other 48, sparser labels are merged into `<other>` by the diarization
pipeline and are out of scope for this roster, per instructions). Of the 20:

- **Confirmed:** 3 labels — `speaker_23`/`speaker_25` (Todd Nation, merged;
  three independent naming events including the mover attribution on the
  Warren Village II motion) and `speaker_169` (Curtis DeBaun IV; four
  independent direct-address instances, one before each of his four CF1
  motions).
- **Probable:** 11 labels — `speaker_3` ("Bree," one direct address),
  `speaker_42` (Tammy Boland, one direct address), the seven-label Michelle
  L. Edwards cluster (`speaker_48`, `speaker_52`, `speaker_56`, `speaker_58`,
  `speaker_83`, `speaker_94`, `speaker_177` — two direct-address instances
  across the cluster plus repeated unbroken mid-sentence continuations), and
  `speaker_140`/`speaker_217` (Kandace G. Hinton, each on a single contextual
  naming event; not merged with each other since they are separate turns on
  separate agenda items, not one diarizer-split utterance).
- **Role-only:** 6 labels — `speaker_0` (a Rose-Hulman presenter, no name
  recoverable), `speaker_20` (a councillor, no name recoverable),
  `speaker_53` and `speaker_147` (unnamed CF1/tax-abatement staff — kept
  separate from the Michelle L. Edwards cluster because `speaker_147`
  explicitly refers to "Michelle" in the third person, proving at least one
  distinct second staff voice is present, and `speaker_53`'s two short
  interjections cannot be cleanly assigned to either voice), and
  `speaker_77`/`speaker_191` (the presiding-officer motion-restate-and-vote-call
  function, well-evidenced as a role but never named in this transcript).

**No vote, motion, or characterization of a third party in this meeting is
attributed to a name below `confirmed`.** The two labels that carry motions
by name — `speaker_169` (Curtis DeBaun IV, four CF1 motions) and the merged
`speaker_23`/`speaker_25` (Todd Nation, the Warren Village II motion) — are
both graded confirmed on independent, repeated direct-address evidence.

## Open questions for the audit pass

1. **Presiding-chair identity unresolved.** `speaker_77`/`speaker_191`
   perform the motion-restate-and-vote-call function on every CF1 item (8
   occurrences) but are never themselves directly addressed by name in this
   transcript. In this vault's 2026-04-09 roster for the same body, this
   exact function was attributed to Anthony J. Dinkel as presiding chair; if
   an out-of-band source (e.g. the published minutes) confirms Dinkel
   presided on 2026-05-14 too, this pair should be upgraded accordingly —
   left unnamed here since no in-transcript evidence supports it.
2. **Two-staff ambiguity in the CF1 section.** `speaker_147` is definitively
   a second, unnamed staff voice (it refers to "Michelle" in the third
   person). `speaker_53`'s two short interjections could belong to either
   that voice or the Michelle L. Edwards cluster; left role_only rather than
   assigned either way.
3. **"Bree" (`speaker_3`) has no surname recoverable** anywhere in the
   transcript; if the Rose-Hulman capstone team roster is available from the
   agenda packet or a follow-up source, this should be upgraded with a full
   name.
4. **`speaker_20`** clearly speaks as a councilperson (describes commuting
   from home to City Hall via Holman) between Council President Hinton's
   question and the chair's introduction of Councilperson Nation, but
   matches none of the three public-comment items the agenda explicitly
   credits (3.c Hinton, 3.d Nation, 3.e Boland) — likely an unscripted fourth
   remark the agenda's terse summary didn't capture. No name recoverable from
   this transcript alone.