# Speaker roster — Vigo County Board of Zoning Appeals, 2026-08-12

Diarization produced 21 anonymous voice-cluster labels for this meeting; 13
carried only sparse, isolated utterances and were merged by the transcript
provider into a single `<other>` bucket that is **not** resolved here (per
pipeline scope, only labels with substantial speech are assigned). The 8
labels below are those with enough speech to attribute.

## Notes for the highlight stage

- **No self-identification or direct-address naming event occurs anywhere in
  this transcript.** No BZA member, staff planner, chair, or petitioner is
  ever called by name, and no agenda was available to cross-reference a
  roster. Every label below is `role_only`; there is no `confirmed` or
  `probable` entry in this roster, and none should be invented later without
  new evidence (e.g. an agenda packet naming the sitting board).
- `speaker_5` and `speaker_25` are treated as the likely same presiding
  officer (the chair), split by diarization: `speaker_5` carries the
  pre-vote procedural questions ("Is the petitioner present?" ... "Is there
  anyone here in opposition") for both petitions, and `speaker_25` carries
  the post-vote announcements ("Approved. Motion approved.") and the
  adjournment. See `merge_with` on both. No name is recoverable for either
  half.
- `speaker_0` is the planning-staff voice reading the written findings and
  recommendation for both petitions near-verbatim; the role is unambiguous
  from function even though no name is ever given.
- `speaker_27`'s single line calling the second case by address reads like
  the same chair function as `speaker_5`/`speaker_25`, but on one short
  utterance alone it is not merged with that cluster.
- `speaker_36`'s one utterance splices a motion-seconding line into what
  reads as the chair's vote-leading/announcement line — treated as a
  contaminated cluster and left `role_only` rather than assigned to either
  function, per the standing rule against picking the "more frequent"
  reading of a contradictory label.
- `speaker_41` moves "to accept the findings and facts from our previous
  meeting" — apparently a carryover/continuance item from a prior session —
  but stays role-only regardless, since a motion may never carry a name
  above `confirmed`.
- Because no name here reaches even `probable`, any highlight drawn from this
  meeting must render every one of these participants by role only (e.g. "a
  board member," "the chair," "staff") — never a name.