# Speaker roster — Vigo County Budget Committee, 2026-08-12

No agenda was available for this meeting, and the vault has no closed-set
roll-call membership list for the Vigo County Budget Committee to check
against. This roster is built entirely from transcript self-identification
and direct address, per the evidence grading in
`Skills/vigo-civic-archive/SKILL.md` §12b. Only the 20 labels carrying
substantial speech are resolved; the roughly 391 sparse labels merged into
`<other>` in the source transcript are out of scope and are not listed here.

This session recesses to "10 o'clock tomorrow" [t=9585–9619], which lines up
with the 2026-08-13 Budget Committee session for this same body — the two
are almost certainly one continuous multi-day budget hearing.

## Confirmed (2 labels / 2 people)
- **Brian DeHart** — `speaker_9`. 911 Director. Introduced by name and title
  immediately before his first turn; sustained testimony on the Vesta
  phone-system replacement matches the role exactly, and he is addressed by
  name again later.
- **Judy Delisle** — `speaker_125` (canonical; merges `speaker_118`).
  Auditor's-office staff. Self-identifies by full name in an utterance split
  across a diarization boundary, then is addressed and answers in character
  several more times across the meeting. Carries the bulk of this meeting's
  LIT-fund and stipend narration. Matches the unresolved "Judy" on the
  2026-08-13 and 2026-08-24 rosters for this body — now with a surname.

## Probable (3 labels / 2 people)
- **Larry Hutchings** — `speaker_170` (canonical; merges `speaker_165`).
  County Auditor. Named once by direct address while requesting a pay-grade
  increase and stipends for his own staff, answered immediately in the first
  person. One naming event — kept at probable, not confirmed — but the role
  matches the auditor's office exactly and corroborates a Larry Hutchings who
  self-identifies as "county auditor" in the 2026-03-05 Vigo County Oversight
  Board transcript. "Larry" recurs unresolved on both the 2026-08-13 and
  2026-08-24 rosters for this body; this is the first meeting it is pinned to
  a specific label.
- **Devin** — `speaker_243`. Auditor's-office / council-administrator staff.
  Named once by direct address, answers immediately in the first person.
  Presents several one-off funding requests (community corrections, building
  maintenance, highway workman's comp, sheriff stipends, coroner payroll).

## Role-only (15 labels)
Chair, by function, split across labels with no name ever spoken:
`speaker_3` (opens), `speaker_230` (coordinates, hands the floor to Devin),
`speaker_1125` (closes, recesses to the next day).
Auditor's-office / staff register, never named: `speaker_124`, `speaker_129`,
`speaker_363` (the department-by-department "twos, threes, and fours"
narrator).
Committee members with no recoverable name: `speaker_5`, `speaker_17` (the
meeting's most active voice — see the contradictory "Larry" evidence below),
`speaker_72`, `speaker_175`, `speaker_178`, `speaker_180`, `speaker_384`,
`speaker_757`.

## Two diarization splits, merged on literal handoff evidence
- `speaker_118` / `speaker_125` — a mid-sentence handoff recurs at least
  twice: "...pull your mic closer please" [speaker_118, t=998] precedes
  speaker_125 continuing the identical first-person claim about the same
  handout [t=1015]; and "...this is the sheriff's department uses"
  [speaker_118, t=9263] continues directly as "lit public safety also and in
  your handouts that i gave you..." [speaker_125, t=9275]. Same auditor's-
  office fund-mechanics register throughout.
- `speaker_165` / `speaker_170` — "...so we're kind of absorbing that"
  [speaker_165, t=2777] continues directly as "information also...and in
  budgets the amount of hours..." [speaker_170, t=2802], with no other
  speaker between.

## A contradictory-evidence label, handled per the standard's rule
`speaker_17` twice addresses a third party as "Larry" ([t=736], [t=1630])
while also appearing to be addressed as "Larry" once in return
([t=8016]→[t=8023]). A label cannot coherently be both the addressee and the
third-party addressor of the same name; per the standard's rule, `speaker_17`
stays `role_only` rather than resolved to Larry — consistent with the
2026-08-13 roster for this body, where "Larry" also could not be pinned to a
specific label using that meeting's evidence.

## A name that recurs but stays unresolved this meeting
**"Nancy"** is addressed twice (`speaker_175` at [t=2152], `speaker_384` at
[t=8192]) but never supplies a labeled response among these 20 labels, so she
is likewise unresolved — the same outcome as the 2026-08-13 roster.

*Also known as: Vigo County Budget Committee speaker roster · 2026-08-12 budget committee speakers*