## Method notes

Fifteen `speaker_N` labels carry substantial speech in this transcript; 22
sparse labels (of 37 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**, matching this vault's
recurring pattern across every prior Terre Haute City Council roster:

- The presiding chair, Anthony J. Dinkel (`speaker_0`/`speaker_14`/`speaker_56`).
- The clerk, Michelle L. Edwards (`speaker_4`/`speaker_40`/`speaker_41`).
- The city engineer, Marcus Meyer (`speaker_48`/`speaker_51`) — self-identified
  by full name for the first time in this vault's transcripts, resolving the
  "Marcus, surname unrecoverable" open question left by the 2026-09-03 roster.

**All nine sitting council members are named in the roll call as present**
(Azar, Boland, Chalos, DeBaun, Dinkel, Hinton, Loudermilk, Nation, Thompson —
[t=10]), under this transcript's own ASR manglings: "Bowen" for Boland,
"Devon" for DeBaun, "Dingle" for Dinkel, "Launamilk"/"Laudamilz" for
Loudermilk. Canonical spellings are taken from `Ledger/Entities/People/`, per
this vault's standing convention. Only Dinkel, DeBaun, Nation and Chalos spoke
enough to receive one of the fifteen substantial-speech labels above; Azar,
Boland, Hinton, Loudermilk and Thompson are audible only inside the merged
`<other>` bucket (seconding motions, brief remarks) and are out of scope for
this roster.

**Two of the councilperson identifications rest on a single post-hoc naming
event** (Chalos as seconder, `speaker_99`; DeBaun and Nation as movers,
`speaker_120`/`speaker_100`) — the chair restating who moved and seconded
immediately after the motion, rather than naming the speaker before they
spoke. None of these labels casts a per-member roll-call vote or makes an
accusation, so grading them `probable` does not run afoul of the hard limit
in §12b.

**One contaminated/ambiguous cluster: `speaker_118`.** Its single occurrence
reads as two different people's lines run together (a chair-style prompt and
a one-word answer). Left `role_only` per this vault's standing guidance for
contradictory evidence rather than guessing which reading is right.

**No `[t=]`-quoted basis in this roster attributes a per-member vote or an
accusation to a name graded below `confirmed`.**

## Open questions for the audit pass

1. Confirm "Marcus Meyer" as the city engineer's full name against an agenda
   or staff directory once one becomes available for this meeting (none was
   at ingest time — `agenda_unavailable`) — this roster's self-identification
   evidence is currently the only source, and no `Ledger/Entities/People/`
   entity yet exists for him.
2. `speaker_118`'s identity is unresolved — possibly the chair prompting
   Councilperson DeBaun, possibly a merged two-speaker turn. Left `role_only`
   by design.
3. Confirm whether `speaker_62`/`speaker_74` (Nation, on the General Ordinance
   10-2026 "take action" motion and Q&A) and `speaker_100` (Nation, on the
   formal approval motion) are the same diarization-fragmented voice once a
   sharper transcript or the video is available; left unmerged here for lack
   of a direct splice between the two clusters.