# Speaker roster — Terre Haute Board of Zoning Appeals, 2026-09-02

Resolved from the diarized transcript. No agenda was available for this meeting, so identities are limited to direct transcript evidence and role-only procedural functions.

## Notes for the highlight/audit stage

- **Five labels (speaker_0, speaker_16, speaker_19, speaker_38, speaker_41)
  are almost certainly one person: the chair.** Across all five, the speech
  is exclusively procedural — calling to order, transitioning agenda items,
  entertaining and calling motions, inviting petitioners and the board to
  speak — with zero contradictory evidence (none of the five ever reads a
  staff report or answers as a petitioner). They are threaded through the
  meeting with no gap a sixth speaker could fill (e.g. the minutes-approval
  vote runs speaker_0 → speaker_16 → speaker_19 continuously at
  [t=45–72]). Flagged via `merge_with` rather than silently combined.
- **The merged chair labels remain role-only.** Nobody addresses the chair by name, and the roll call does not carry an explicit presence response for the person first called.
- **`speaker_86` is graded `probable` as "Mr. Keller"** on the strength of
  staff naming him as the second petition's representative immediately
  before this label starts answering site-specific questions about that
  same petition. No first name is available from the record.
- **`speaker_24` and `speaker_49` are both `staff`, role_only, and are kept
  separate rather than merged** — `speaker_24` reads the two formal staff
  reports verbatim; `speaker_49` supplies looser supplementary commentary
  (driveway/garage detail, then citywide lot-size and ordinance context).
  The register differs enough between them that a merge is not asserted,
  even though both plausibly work for the same department.
- **26 sparse labels of the original 35 are merged into `<other>`** in the
  source transcript and are out of scope for this roster per the task
  instructions — no entries were fabricated for them. This includes the
  self-identified petitioner David Knight [t=272] and public commenter
  Pauletta Turner [t=627], both of whom named themselves but were not among
  the nine substantial-speech labels.
- **Zero `confirmed` assignments this meeting.** Chair and staff functions remain role-only. Mr. Keller is probable from a direct introduction tied to his petition, and no vote or third-party characterization is assigned to that name.