# Speaker roster — Vigo County Council (Sunshine), 2026-09-01

Resolved against the meeting recording (`Ledger/Meetings/2026-09-01-vigo-county-council-sunshine.md`).
20 of roughly 301 diarization labels carried enough speech to attempt
resolution; the remaining ~281 sparse labels were pre-merged into `<other>`
by the diarization stage and are out of scope here (per instructions, not
invented).

Roll call named seven council members (David Thompson, Brad Anderson, Vicki
Wager, Steve Ellis, Randy Gentry, Nancy Alsop, Brenda Wilson) [t=600] — the
"Alsup" spelling in this transcript's ASR is corrected to "Alsop" to match
the roll call as resolved in prior meetings' rosters
(`Ledger/Meetings/2026-08-11-vigo-county-council.speakers.md`).

## Method notes

- **The chair (speaker_36) is confirmed as Steve Ellis** by repeated direct
  address ("President Ellis") from multiple speakers, and merges with
  speaker_19 on a mid-sentence diarization split during the school-funding
  Q&A [t=8927-8941].
- **Randy Gentry is confirmed and merges three labels** (speaker_38,
  speaker_154, speaker_175). speaker_154 was initially suspected to be a
  distinct, unresolved council member (its earlier material, on the
  agenda/Rule 7 dispute, has no direct naming event of its own) but a later
  passage [t=2012-2066] shows the identical voice interleaving mid-sentence
  with the confirmed-Gentry label speaker_175 in one continuous question to
  Commissioner Clinkenbeard, and the rule-and-timestamp-citing register
  matches Gentry's confirmed material elsewhere. Diarization labels are
  per-voice for the whole meeting, so the merge applies to all of
  speaker_154's turns, including the earlier Rule 7 material.
- **David Thompson (speaker_72/78) is held at `probable`**, not confirmed —
  one clear direct-address naming event ("David, that's a question I've
  been trying to get answered for eight months" [t=5340]), consistent with
  how this same person was graded in the prior Sunshine meeting's roster
  (`Ledger/Meetings/2026-08-04-vigo-county-council-sunshine.speakers.md`,
  speaker_154 there, also probable on a single naming event). **speaker_78
  carries a stated lack of confidence in the council president and
  characterizations of other officials that must go out by role, never by
  this probable name, per the §12b hard limit.**
- **The two Commissioner Clinkenbeard labels (speaker_195, speaker_197) and
  the superintendent labels (speaker_541, speaker_550) are each one person
  split by diarization**, evidenced respectively by a direct-address /
  self-ID pair and an unbroken Q&A sentence split. The commissioner's
  surname is rendered at least four ways by ASR in this transcript
  ("Klinkenbeard," "Clinkenbeard," "Klinkenberg," "clinkberry") and the
  superintendent's at least two ("Hansel," "Himsel") — identity is
  confirmed/probable as noted per label; the exact spelling is not, and
  should be reconciled against `Ledger/Entities/People/` once a canonical
  entity exists for either. The commissioner's spelling was reconciled to
  `Ledger/Entities/People/mark-clinkenbeard.md` on 2026-09-04; the
  superintendent's remains open pending a canonical entity.
- **The County Auditor (speaker_826) is held at `probable`, name
  "Hutchings"** — the office and its duties are unmistakable throughout, but
  the surname is spoken only once, by a third party, never self-identified
  or directly addressed by name.
- Four public commenters (speaker_963, speaker_1046, speaker_1068,
  speaker_1206) self-identify once each during public comment — standard
  practice for the record — and are graded `confirmed` on that basis alone,
  per tier-1 evidence.

No vote, accusation, or third-party characterization in this roster is
attributed to a name at `probable` in the table above; per the archive
contract's §12b hard limit, any highlight drafted from this meeting must
render David Thompson's characterization of President Ellis [t=1172-1237]
and the superintendent's/auditor's statements by role only, unless a
stronger naming event surfaces.