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Speaker roster — Vigo County Budget Committee, 2026-08-12

No agenda was available for this meeting, and the vault has no closed-set roll-call membership list for the Vigo County Budget Committee to check against. This roster is built entirely from transcript self-identification and direct address, per the evidence grading in Skills/vigo-civic-archive/SKILL.md §12b. Only the 20 labels carrying substantial speech are resolved; the roughly 391 sparse labels merged into <other> in the source transcript are out of scope and are not listed here.

This session recesses to "10 o'clock tomorrow" [t=9585–9619], which lines up with the 2026-08-13 Budget Committee session for this same body — the two are almost certainly one continuous multi-day budget hearing.

Confirmed (2 labels / 2 people)

  • Brian DeHart — speaker_9. 911 Director. Introduced by name and title immediately before his first turn; sustained testimony on the Vesta phone-system replacement matches the role exactly, and he is addressed by name again later.
  • Judy Delisle — speaker_125 (canonical; merges speaker_118). Auditor's-office staff. Self-identifies by full name in an utterance split across a diarization boundary, then is addressed and answers in character several more times across the meeting. Carries the bulk of this meeting's LIT-fund and stipend narration. Matches the unresolved "Judy" on the 2026-08-13 and 2026-08-24 rosters for this body — now with a surname.

Probable (3 labels / 2 people)

  • Larry Hutchings — speaker_170 (canonical; merges speaker_165). County Auditor. Named once by direct address while requesting a pay-grade increase and stipends for his own staff, answered immediately in the first person. One naming event — kept at probable, not confirmed — but the role matches the auditor's office exactly and corroborates a Larry Hutchings who self-identifies as "county auditor" in the 2026-03-05 Vigo County Oversight Board transcript. "Larry" recurs unresolved on both the 2026-08-13 and 2026-08-24 rosters for this body; this is the first meeting it is pinned to a specific label.
  • Devin — speaker_243. Auditor's-office / council-administrator staff. Named once by direct address, answers immediately in the first person. Presents several one-off funding requests (community corrections, building maintenance, highway workman's comp, sheriff stipends, coroner payroll).

Role-only (15 labels)

Chair, by function, split across labels with no name ever spoken: speaker_3 (opens), speaker_230 (coordinates, hands the floor to Devin), speaker_1125 (closes, recesses to the next day). Auditor's-office / staff register, never named: speaker_124, speaker_129, speaker_363 (the department-by-department "twos, threes, and fours" narrator). Committee members with no recoverable name: speaker_5, speaker_17 (the meeting's most active voice — see the contradictory "Larry" evidence below), speaker_72, speaker_175, speaker_178, speaker_180, speaker_384, speaker_757.

Two diarization splits, merged on literal handoff evidence

  • speaker_118 / speaker_125 — a mid-sentence handoff recurs at least twice: "...pull your mic closer please" [speaker_118, t=998] precedes speaker_125 continuing the identical first-person claim about the same handout [t=1015]; and "...this is the sheriff's department uses" [speaker_118, t=9263] continues directly as "lit public safety also and in your handouts that i gave you..." [speaker_125, t=9275]. Same auditor's- office fund-mechanics register throughout.
  • speaker_165 / speaker_170 — "...so we're kind of absorbing that" [speaker_165, t=2777] continues directly as "information also...and in budgets the amount of hours..." [speaker_170, t=2802], with no other speaker between.

A contradictory-evidence label, handled per the standard's rule

speaker_17 twice addresses a third party as "Larry" ([t=736], [t=1630]) while also appearing to be addressed as "Larry" once in return ([t=8016]→[t=8023]). A label cannot coherently be both the addressee and the third-party addressor of the same name; per the standard's rule, speaker_17 stays role_only rather than resolved to Larry — consistent with the 2026-08-13 roster for this body, where "Larry" also could not be pinned to a specific label using that meeting's evidence.

A name that recurs but stays unresolved this meeting

"Nancy" is addressed twice (speaker_175 at [t=2152], speaker_384 at [t=8192]) but never supplies a labeled response among these 20 labels, so she is likewise unresolved — the same outcome as the 2026-08-13 roster.

Also known as: Vigo County Budget Committee speaker roster · 2026-08-12 budget committee speakers

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