# Speaker roster — Vigo County Budget Committee, 2026-08-24

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 (the 2026-08-13 and 2026-08-12 sessions of this same body were never
given their own speaker rosters). This roster is built entirely from
transcript self-identification and direct address, per the archive's
transcript-evidence standard. Only the 20 labels carrying substantial speech
are resolved; the 209 sparse labels merged into `<other>` in the source
transcript are out of scope.

## Confirmed (3 labels / 3 people)
- **Steve** — `speaker_43` (canonical; merges `speaker_44`, `speaker_178`).
  Named by direct address 6 times across the meeting by four different other
  speakers, always addressing the flat-raise-vs-percentage argument this
  cluster carries throughout. Self-describes as an elected council member
  who votes on raises. Surname never spoken.
- **Judy** — `speaker_95` (canonical; merges `speaker_394`). Named or
  addressed three times across the meeting — once in third person
  immediately after explaining a stipend-grading point, twice by direct
  address — with the identity's own turns and its merged split both
  answering in character. Senior auditor's-office knowledge throughout.
  Surname never spoken.
- **Charles Johnson** — `speaker_434`. Judge, Vigo County Superior Court
  Division I, also Chief Judge. Self-identified by name and title.

## Probable (5 labels)
- **Steve** — `speaker_44`, `speaker_178`. Diarization splits of the
  confirmed `speaker_43` cluster (see merge_with); each carries a literal
  mid-sentence handoff to or from speaker_43 rather than an independent
  naming event of its own.
- **Judy** — `speaker_394`. Diarization split of the confirmed `speaker_95`
  cluster (see merge_with); carries one direct address answered with a
  personal, first-person detail only the addressee could supply.
- **Larry** — `speaker_207`. Named twice by direct address, each time
  immediately after this label's own turn. Two namings, not three — kept at
  probable. Surname unknown.
- **Kevin Gardner** — `speaker_305`. Outside compensation consultant,
  invited up by full name mid-meeting and referenced again afterward by
  first name. Two naming events, not three — kept at probable.

## Role-only (12 labels)
Auditor's-office staff doing fund/stipend mechanics: `speaker_52`,
`speaker_55`, `speaker_145`, `speaker_675`.
Unnamed committee members / unclear function: `speaker_3` (chair, by
function — opens the session), `speaker_42`, `speaker_74`, `speaker_191`,
`speaker_192` (closes the session with the formal recess and addresses
others by name, but is never named in return — a plausible chair or
vice-chair, left unresolved), `speaker_272`, `speaker_316` (addresses
`speaker_43` as "Steve" but is never named in return), `speaker_487`.

## Two known diarization failure modes handled here

**Split labels (same person, two-plus clusters), both merged on literal
evidence, not topical similarity alone:**
- `speaker_43` / `speaker_44` / `speaker_178` — a literal mid-sentence
  handoff recurs at least twice ("...the thought process would be rather
  than to do it by a percentage" [speaker_178, t=1928] continuing directly
  as "every county employee would get the exact same raise..." [speaker_43,
  t=1936]; "Also, while we're waiting for you to bring that up here, I spoke
  to Travis Norris, and" [speaker_178, t=3553] continuing as "he did
  indicate that he probably just assumed he'd keep the budget..."
  [speaker_43, t=3566]) plus a request-to-speak handoff ("Can we just talk
  openly? Can I just say what I would like to see?" [speaker_44, t=1893]
  immediately preceding speaker_43's flat-raise pitch [t=1901]).
- `speaker_95` / `speaker_394` — each label is independently addressed as
  "Judy" and each answers in character on its own label (see the Confirmed
  section above), which is why these are merged as one identity rather than
  left as two separately-probable "Judy" labels.

**Considered and rejected:**
- `speaker_74` echoes the same page-by-page stipend-review style as the
  `speaker_43` cluster but never shows a literal sentence-level handoff, so
  it was left unmerged rather than folded in on style alone — recorded here
  so the next reviewer doesn't have to redo the comparison.
- `speaker_3` and `speaker_192` both perform chair-like procedural functions
  (opening and closing the session, respectively) but no literal handoff or
  naming event ties them together, so they are kept as two separate
  role-only labels rather than merged on function alone.