## Method notes

Twenty `speaker_N` labels carry substantial speech in this transcript; the
remaining 136 sparse labels (of 156 total) are merged into `<other>` by the
diarization pipeline and are out of scope for this roster.

**Three voices account for most of the fragmentation.** The presiding chair
(`speaker_0`/`speaker_1`/`speaker_112`), the city engineer referred to only as
"Marcus" (`speaker_137`/`speaker_140`), and the Special Ordinance 11-2026
petitioner's attorney Richard Shagley (`speaker_349`/`speaker_353`/
`speaker_356`) are each one continuous person split repeatedly across labels —
in each case visible where a sentence starts under one label and finishes,
sometimes mid-word, under another. Each cluster is merged via `merge_with`,
keeping the original label ids so the merge stays undoable.

**President Dinkel is graded `probable`, not `confirmed`, despite running
procedure all night.** Only two direct namings exist in this transcript (both
from the mayor, both the documented "Dinkle" ASR mangling of "Dinkel"). This
matches the grade this vault's 2026-08-06 roster gave the same pattern — chair
role-performance is strong role evidence but is not itself a naming event.

**The mayor is never self-identified in this transcript**, and is named only
once, by Councilperson Boland ("Mayor Sackman" [t=1304]). "Brandon Sakbun" is
carried forward unchanged from this vault's prior meetings (2026-04-09,
2026-06-11, 2026-07-09, 2026-08-06), where no formal
`Ledger/Entities/People/` entity yet exists for him. Graded `probable` on this
transcript's own evidence alone, consistent with prior rosters.

**"Marcus" (city engineer) has no surname recoverable anywhere in this
transcript.** He is graded `confirmed` on naming-event count (Boland's
introduction, Nation's direct address, the mayor's later group mention), but
the roster deliberately does not guess a surname. A likely candidate ("Marcus
Maurer") appears nowhere in `Ledger/Entities/People/`; creating a formal
entity is a natural follow-up for the thread stage, at which point this
roster's `name: "Marcus"` should be reconciled against it.

**One contaminated/ambiguous cluster: `speaker_102`.** In the Special
Ordinance 9-2026 petitioner presentation this label reads as a second family
member (consistent with Nation's "thank Tim, Margaret, and their sons"
[t=897]), but in the later Special Ordinance 11-2026 public comment the same
label continues Tim Hawkins's own uninterrupted first-person remarks with no
second person introduced. Left `role_only` per this vault's standing guidance
for contradictory evidence rather than guessing "Margaret" or folding it into
Tim Hawkins.

**Two petitioner labels are graded `confirmed` off a self-identification that
falls on the adjacent, out-of-scope `<other>` label**, not on the substantial
label itself (Richard Shagley, `speaker_349`; Hugh Pebworth, `speaker_460`).
In both cases the self-ID sentence runs on, uninterrupted, into the
substantial label with no topic break — the same pattern this vault's
2026-08-06 roster used for Danny Wayne Beamer and Sean Stewart.

**No `[t=]`-quoted basis in this roster attributes a motion-making or
vote-casting act to a name graded below `confirmed`.**

**Open questions for the audit pass:**
1. Confirm "Anthony J. Dinkel" as presiding Council President against the
   published agenda (it names him: "Anthony Dinkel, President Councilperson
   District 6") — done; the transcript-only naming count still leaves him at
   `probable` by this vault's rule, which is intentionally conservative.
2. Identify "Marcus"'s surname and create `Ledger/Entities/People/` if it
   does not already exist under a fuller name.
3. Confirm the bond counsel's firm name ("Bozzi, McKinney & Evans" vs. the
   likely "Bose McKinney & Evans") once minutes or a sign-in sheet are
   available.
4. `speaker_102`'s identity (a second Special Ordinance 9-2026 petitioner,
   likely "Margaret," vs. a diarization artifact of Tim Hawkins's own voice)
   is unresolved; left `role_only` by design.