The Vigo Ledger

Speaker roster — Vigo County Commissioners, 2026-08-18

Resolved from a diarized transcript against a closed candidate set: the three commissioners (Chris Switzer, Mark Clinkenbeard, Mike Morris — per Ledger/Entities/Bodies/vigo-county-commissioners.md), the auditor, the county engineer, maintenance staff, outside/special counsel, and visiting officials named or addressed on the record. 58 sparse <other>-merged labels are out of scope for this roster.

Summary

  • Confirmed (3 labels / 2 people): speaker_66/speaker_69 (Richard Shagley, self-identified, merged — one speaker split by diarization) and speaker_250 (Kevin Hinton, self-identified).
  • Probable (10 labels / 7 people): speaker_16/speaker_114 (Mark Clinkenbeard, chair — one direct address plus, for speaker_114, matching procedural role, merged as a likely diarization split), speaker_60 (Chris Switzer, named once by the chair as "Commissioner Schweitzer," this transcript's characteristic ASR mishearing of Switzer), speaker_113 (Ricky Hammonds, named twice by direct address), speaker_126/speaker_128/ speaker_129 (Larry, county engineer — one direct address, merged as one speaker split across three labels by diarization), speaker_187 (Friedrich, named once by the chair), speaker_192 (Dave, introduced and later addressed by first name), and speaker_236 (Scott Barber, named before and after his testimony).
  • Role only, no name recoverable (7): speaker_23 (auditor), speaker_36, speaker_41, speaker_120, speaker_163, speaker_181, speaker_262 (all unidentified commissioners/board voices — the three-seat board's other members, including Mike Morris, whom the chair and speaker_60 both mention by first name without ever addressing him directly as a speaker, could not be distinguished from context alone), and the merge notes above where a name could not be pinned to every constituent label.

Notes for the highlight stage

  • No vote in this meeting was a recorded roll call with named yes/no answers — every motion resolves as "all by aye" without individual tallies. Per the archive contract, no numeric vote split may be synthesized from these voice votes regardless of any speaker's identity confidence.
  • The seven probable people above (Mark Clinkenbeard, Chris Switzer, Ricky Hammonds, Larry, Friedrich, Dave, and Scott Barber) may be used in highlight prose with attribution_basis and confidence: flagged, but must not carry a vote, accusation, or characterization of a third party at that grade — only role ("a commissioner", "the county engineer") may carry those.
  • speaker_114 and speaker_16 are merged as the same chair (Mark Clinkenbeard) on functional/procedural evidence only (no quoted naming event ties them together directly); speaker_126/speaker_128/ speaker_129 are merged as the same county engineer (Larry, surname unrecovered) on the same basis, corroborated by one direct naming event ("Larry") attached to speaker_128.
  • Mike Morris, the board's third seat, is never directly addressed as a speaker in this transcript — he is mentioned by name twice by colleagues (speaker_16 at [t=1663], speaker_60 at [t=1049] and [t=2284]) but no label in this roster can be pinned to him. He is not invented into any of the role_only commissioner labels above.