
# West Terre Haute Town Council — 2026-08-10 — speaker roster

Diarized labels resolved against the town's own published roster (Dave
Elkins, Town Board President; Jody Roach, Vice President; Travis Walters,
member — see `Ledger/Entities/Bodies/west-terre-haute-town-council.md`) and
against internal transcript evidence (self-identification, direct address,
role function, and cross-label sentence continuity).

No roster member surfaced with a clean 3+ direct-address naming event in
this transcript, so `speaker_20` (chair-function evidence only) is graded
`probable` rather than `confirmed`. Several council-member labels
(`speaker_61`, `speaker_64`, `speaker_94`, `speaker_212`, `speaker_213`,
`speaker_374`) show clearly distinct, active voices but carry no naming
evidence at all — more distinct council voices than the three-member roster
currently lists, consistent with that entity note's own caveat that the
roster may be stale. They are recorded `role_only` rather than guessed onto
Elkins, Roach, or Walters specifically, per the hard rule against picking a
name when evidence doesn't support one.

Two labels (`speaker_222`, `speaker_318`) show contradictory content mid-turn
— splicing between what reads as presenter speech and council speech — and
are marked `role_only` as contaminated clusters rather than merged onto
either candidate.

Three visiting presenters were largely fragmented across multiple labels by
diarization over their long, uninterrupted turns and have been merged:
Whitney of Epic Insurance (`speaker_34`, anchor; `speaker_36`, `speaker_39`
merged), the Baker Tilly municipal advisor introduced as "Susan"
(`speaker_215`, anchor; `speaker_218` merged), and Riley Duffy presenting the
SRF lead-service-line grant (`speaker_499`, anchor; `speaker_516` merged).
Kevin, the clerk-treasurer/town manager who gives every fund's financial
report, is similarly split (`speaker_412`, anchor; `speaker_52` merged).

151 sparse labels merged into `<other>` by the upstream diarization pass are
out of scope for this roster and are not represented here.
