Method notes

This roster was built from a machine-diarized transcript with unusually heavy cluster fragmentation on the two continuously-speaking presiding voices (the chair and the mayor), who together account for the large majority of the ~150 distinct speaker_N labels in this meeting. Where a label's content matches an established person's speaking pattern and topic but carries no independent naming event, it is merged in at the same confidence as its canonical label rather than invented as a new identity.

Two labels (speaker_234) showed genuinely contradictory content under one ID — evidence of a contaminated diarization cluster — and were left unattributed (role_only) rather than assigned to whichever content was more frequent, per the standard's guidance on split/merged labels.

The mayor is never self-identified in this transcript; the surname "Sakbun" is a best-guess reading of two independently mangled transcriptions ("Sackbun" / "Sackman") offered by different residents, corroborated by the publicly known name of Terre Haute's mayor. This should be verified against the agenda/minutes once those are OCR'd (see meeting.md), and against a Ledger/Entities/People/ entity for the mayor, which does not yet exist in this vault and should be created once confirmed.

Several city staff (the clerk "Michelle," the financial advisor "Mitchell," the city engineer "Marcus," and the Parks staffer "Kylie") are identified by first name only via direct address from the chair or mayor — no surname is recoverable from this transcript.