Speaker roster — Vigo County Council (Sunshine), 2026-08-04

Resolved against the transcript at Ledger/Meetings/2026-08-04-vigo-county-council-sunshine.md. 20 of 146 diarization labels carried enough speech to attempt resolution; the remaining 126 sparse labels were pre-merged into <other> by the diarization stage and are out of scope here.

Roll call named seven council members (David Thompson, Brad Anderson, Vicki Wager, Steve Ellis, Randy Gentry, Nancy Alsop, Brenda Wilson) [t=31], but only one of the twenty labeled speakers could be matched to a roll-call name with direct-address evidence (David Thompson, speaker_154, probable). The chair who runs the meeting throughout is never named — addressed only as "Mr. President" — and is recorded role_only after merging three diarization labels (speaker_19, speaker_20, speaker_171) that repeatedly split one continuous sentence across label boundaries. Unlike this body's 2026-09-01 meeting, no line here uses the chair's surname, so the cross-meeting identification of the president as Steve Ellis is not carried into this roster as a name.

Two commissioners attend and both self-identify: Mike Morris (speaker_23) and Mark Clinkenbeard (speaker_206), both spelled here to match the resolved roster entities at Ledger/Entities/People/mike-morris.md and Ledger/Entities/People/mark-clinkenbeard.md rather than any single in-meeting ASR rendering. speaker_257 continues Clinkenbeard's elevator/jail narrative by topic and role only, with no naming event of its own, and is recorded role_only with merge_with: speaker_206 rather than restating his name at that label.

No vote, accusation, or characterization of a third party is attributed to any probable or role_only name in this roster; downstream highlight drafting must keep those at probable/role only per the hard limit in the archive contract, §12b. In particular, the abstention announcement recorded under the merged chair labels [t=3294-3316] and any legal-authority framing under speaker_365 must render by role, not by name.