Speaker roster — Vigo County Commissioners, 2026-08-04

Resolved against the transcript at Staging/2026-08-04-vigo-county-commissioners/meeting.md. Diarization produced a large number of anonymous labels for this ~23.6-minute meeting; per pipeline scope only the 18 labels carrying substantial speech are resolved below, matching the count supplied for this pass. The remaining sparse labels were pre-merged by the transcript provider into <other> and are out of scope here.

Notes for the highlight stage

  • The board has three seats; only two commissioners are present. The chair opens by stating "Commissioner Switzer is out of town, excused absence, so he will not be with us" [t=15]. That leaves exactly two commissioners speaking tonight: the chair (speaker_4, addressed only as "Mr. President," never named) and a second, heavily-engaged commissioner fragmented across speaker_6, speaker_29, speaker_41, speaker_49, and canonically speaker_64. The closed set for both seats is {Mike Morris, Mark Clinkenbeard} — both self-identified by full name and title as Vigo County Commissioners at the County Council's sunshine meeting the same evening (Staging/2026-08-04-vigo-county-council-sunshine/speakers.md) — but nothing in this transcript names or directly addresses either present commissioner, so no name is assigned to either seat. Write around both as "a commissioner" / "the chair" until a future meeting's roll call or direct address resolves which is which.
  • speaker_12 (the auditor) is never named. The chair's "Mr. Auditor" address [t=46] and what the transcript renders as "Mr. Onder" [t=1225] are read as the same generic role address, not a surname — no name is asserted.
  • speaker_25 ("Stiverson") is graded probable on a single direct address from a commissioner (speaker_21) immediately preceding her detailed, first-person-plural explanation of the clerk's-office software. Surname spelling is unconfirmed elsewhere in the vault; treat as best-guess.
  • Ricky Hammonds (speaker_100/103/109/117) is graded probable rather than confirmed because this transcript only carries a first-name direct address ("Ricky"). The full name and title come from the same-day County Council sunshine meeting's confirmed self-introduction — reused here per the standing-roster convention rather than invented.
  • Shannon Giles (speaker_44/47) and Jonathan Blake (speaker_66/67) are both confirmed on clean self-identifications, each split across two labels by an unbroken diarization turn-change.
  • No vote, accusation, or third-party characterization is attributed to any probable label in this roster (speaker_25, speaker_100/103/109/117); none of this meeting's business reached a recorded vote split beyond routine voice-vote motions, and downstream highlight drafting must keep these speakers at role-only for any such claim per the archive contract's hard limit (§12b).
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