# Speaker roster — Vigo County Commissioners, 2026-08-18

Resolved from a diarized transcript against a closed candidate set: the three
commissioners (Chris Switzer, Mark Clinkenbeard, Mike Morris — per
`Ledger/Entities/Bodies/vigo-county-commissioners.md`), the auditor, the
county engineer, maintenance staff, outside/special counsel, and visiting
officials named or addressed on the record. 58 sparse `<other>`-merged labels
are out of scope for this roster.

## Summary

- **Confirmed (3 labels / 2 people):** speaker_66/speaker_69 (Richard Shagley,
  self-identified, merged — one speaker split by diarization) and speaker_250
  (Kevin Hinton, self-identified).
- **Probable (10 labels / 7 people):** speaker_16/speaker_114 (Mark
  Clinkenbeard, chair — one direct address plus, for speaker_114, matching
  procedural role, merged as a likely diarization split), speaker_60 (Chris
  Switzer, named once by the chair as "Commissioner Schweitzer," this
  transcript's characteristic ASR mishearing of Switzer), speaker_113 (Ricky
  Hammonds, named twice by direct address), speaker_126/speaker_128/
  speaker_129 (Larry, county engineer — one direct address, merged as one
  speaker split across three labels by diarization), speaker_187 (Friedrich,
  named once by the chair), speaker_192 (Dave, introduced and later addressed
  by first name), and speaker_236 (Scott Barber, named before and after his
  testimony).
- **Role only, no name recoverable (7):** speaker_23 (auditor), speaker_36,
  speaker_41, speaker_120, speaker_163, speaker_181, speaker_262 (all
  unidentified commissioners/board voices — the three-seat board's other
  members, including Mike Morris, whom the chair and speaker_60 both mention
  by first name without ever addressing him directly as a speaker, could not
  be distinguished from context alone), and the merge notes above where a
  name could not be pinned to every constituent label.

## Notes for the highlight stage

- No vote in this meeting was a recorded roll call with named yes/no answers —
  every motion resolves as "all by aye" without individual tallies. Per the
  archive contract, **no numeric vote split may be synthesized** from these
  voice votes regardless of any speaker's identity confidence.
- The seven probable people above (Mark Clinkenbeard, Chris Switzer, Ricky
  Hammonds, Larry, Friedrich, Dave, and Scott Barber) may be used in highlight
  prose with `attribution_basis` and `confidence: flagged`, but must not carry
  a vote, accusation, or characterization of a third party at that grade —
  only role ("a commissioner", "the county engineer") may carry those.
- `speaker_114` and `speaker_16` are merged as the same chair (Mark
  Clinkenbeard) on functional/procedural evidence only (no quoted naming
  event ties them together directly); `speaker_126`/`speaker_128`/
  `speaker_129` are merged as the same county engineer (Larry, surname
  unrecovered) on the same basis, corroborated by one direct naming event
  ("Larry") attached to `speaker_128`.
- Mike Morris, the board's third seat, is never directly addressed as a
  speaker in this transcript — he is mentioned by name twice by colleagues
  (speaker_16 at [t=1663], speaker_60 at [t=1049] and [t=2284]) but no label
  in this roster can be pinned to him. He is not invented into any of the
  role_only commissioner labels above.