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Speaker roster — Vigo County Oversight Board, 2026-03-05

No agenda was available for this meeting. The closed set of board members used here comes from this body's own rosters on either side of this meeting date (2026-02-23 and 2026-04-09), which establish Mark Matheny, Heather LaBella, Carrie Pickens, Jim Bramble, and a never-named chair as the voting membership, plus Tim Berry of Crowe as the board's recurring outside financial consultant and Larry Hutchings as the county auditor. Diarization returned 81 labels total; 60 sparse ones are merged into <other> and are out of scope for this roster. The 21 labels carrying substantial speech are resolved above.

Summary

  • The chair is never named in this transcript, consistent with every other meeting of this body. Two labels (speaker_10, speaker_79) are merged as one person on identical procedural function — casting the chair's own vote, handing off to Mr. Matheny, praising the presenter, and delegating logistics.
  • Mark Matheny (speaker_11/speaker_13, confirmed) is handed the floor by title at the top of the meeting ("All right. Mr. Matheny.") and named again mid-meeting when another board member (speaker_94) addresses him directly as "mark." He delivers the bulk of the board's own framing of its work this meeting and sets the new once-a-week schedule.
  • Larry Hutchings, the county auditor, dominates the meeting's first half presenting the AFR. His testimony is diarized across four labels (speaker_17, speaker_23, speaker_24, speaker_60), all confirmed — directly addressed by name at least three times and glued together by repeated mid-sentence diarization splits. He is introduced once as "Barry Hutchings," almost certainly an ASR mishearing of the name used everywhere else in the meeting.
  • Morgan Elkins (speaker_27, probable), described on the record as Larry Hutchings's chief deputy, is introduced by name immediately before reading the cash-balance figures.
  • Jim Bramble (speaker_49/speaker_51, probable) is addressed by name alongside Larry when Mark Matheny asks both for a peer-county comparison, and named twice more elsewhere in the meeting.
  • speaker_186 and speaker_218 remain role_only: the Carrie invitation does not immediately hand off to either label, and intervening turns prevent a reliable merge.
  • Three labels are left role_only as oversight board members (speaker_38, speaker_94, speaker_110) — each is clearly an engaged board member by the substance and register of their questions, but no naming or address evidence in this transcript recovers a name. Per this board's standing rule for unnamed but evidently-board-level speech (see the 2026-04-09 roster's speaker_63), these are left unresolved rather than guessed against Heather LaBella or the other unaccounted board member.
  • speaker_147 self-identifies a role, not a name — "as a school board member" — during the school-visit discussion. Recorded as role_only with that role; a real self-ID, but not a name.
  • speaker_61 explains fund-allocation and tax-sale-surplus rules in the same register as the auditor's testimony but has no direct-address or mid-sentence link into that cluster, so it is left role_only rather than merged on topical similarity alone.
  • speaker_252 and speaker_8 speak only after the meeting has adjourned, in what reads as an unrelated reception scene tacked onto the end of the recording. Left role_only/unknown; not part of the board's business.

Confidence counts

  • confirmed: 6 (speaker_11, speaker_13, speaker_17, speaker_23, speaker_24, speaker_60)
  • probable: 3 (speaker_27, speaker_49, speaker_51)
  • role_only: 12 (speaker_10, speaker_79, speaker_38, speaker_61, speaker_94, speaker_110, speaker_147, speaker_186, speaker_218, speaker_252, speaker_8, speaker_185)
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