# Speaker roster — Vigo County Budget Committee, 2026-08-13

No agenda was available for this meeting, and the vault has no closed-set
roll-call roster for the Vigo County Budget Committee (`Entities/People/`
covers only Terre Haute City Council). 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 228 sparse labels merged into `<other>`
in the source transcript are out of scope.

## Probable (1 label / 1 person)
- **"Vicki"** — `speaker_75`. Addressed directly while mid-readout of a
  revenue figure, and continues reading the figure out immediately after —
  one naming event, so held at probable rather than confirmed. Carries the
  large majority of this meeting's fund readouts and vote calls.

## Role-only (19 labels)
Chair, by function: `speaker_10` (opens and closes the session).
Auditor's-office-style staff narrating fund mechanics: `speaker_70`,
`speaker_127`, `speaker_161`, `speaker_398`, `speaker_400`.
Likely committee members with no recoverable name: `speaker_124`,
`speaker_242` (both show councillor-like behavior — tracking notes across
meetings, and naming fellow committee members casually), `speaker_8`,
`speaker_12`, `speaker_128`, `speaker_136`, `speaker_141`, `speaker_143`,
`speaker_155`, `speaker_245`, `speaker_264`, `speaker_388`, `speaker_532`.

## A contradictory-evidence label, handled per the standard's rule
`speaker_127` answers immediately after a direct address to **"Judy"**
[t=861→864] and, separately, immediately after a direct address to
**"Larry"** [t=5028→5031]. Both names recur from the 2026-08-24 roster for
this same body (Judy: staff; Larry: councillor) and both are independently
confirmed to be real people present in this room — `speaker_242` names them
both together at [t=5637] ("Yeah, Nancy. It's confidential. Yeah, Larry
can't tell you.") — but neither naming event can be preferred over the
other for `speaker_127` specifically. Per the standard ("if one label's
evidence is contradictory, mark it role_only rather than picking the more
frequent name"), `speaker_127` stays role_only. Neither "Judy" nor "Larry"
could be pinned to any of this meeting's 20 resolvable labels; both remain
unresolved voices inside `<other>`. A third recurring name, "Nancy," is
addressed twice ([t=399], [t=1001]) but never followed by a labeled
response, so she is likewise unresolved among the 20.

## A near-merge considered and rejected
`speaker_398` and `speaker_400` share a register (explaining binder-vs-email
discrepancies to the committee) and one exchange reads as a single
continuous sentence split across the boundary ([t=2504]→[t=2512]). They were
**not** merged: a later exchange ([t=4233]→[t=4236]) is unambiguous
back-and-forth dialogue between two people, not one voice continuing —
`speaker_400` states a dollar figure and `speaker_398` responds to it
("We'll give you a printout. We'll have to come back and have you guys
approve that as well."). Recorded here so the next reviewer doesn't have to
redo the comparison.