Speaker roster — Terre Haute Board of Zoning Appeals, 2026-09-02

Resolved from the diarized transcript. No agenda was available for this meeting, so identities are limited to direct transcript evidence and role-only procedural functions.

Notes for the highlight/audit stage

• Five labels (speaker_0, speaker_16, speaker_19, speaker_38, speaker_41) are almost certainly one person: the chair. Across all five, the speech is exclusively procedural — calling to order, transitioning agenda items, entertaining and calling motions, inviting petitioners and the board to speak — with zero contradictory evidence (none of the five ever reads a staff report or answers as a petitioner). They are threaded through the meeting with no gap a sixth speaker could fill (e.g. the minutes-approval vote runs speaker_0 → speaker_16 → speaker_19 continuously at [t=45–72]). Flagged via merge_with rather than silently combined.
• The merged chair labels remain role-only. Nobody addresses the chair by name, and the roll call does not carry an explicit presence response for the person first called.
• speaker_86 is graded probable as "Mr. Keller" on the strength of staff naming him as the second petition's representative immediately before this label starts answering site-specific questions about that same petition. No first name is available from the record.
• speaker_24 and speaker_49 are both staff, role_only, and are kept separate rather than merged — speaker_24 reads the two formal staff reports verbatim; speaker_49 supplies looser supplementary commentary (driveway/garage detail, then citywide lot-size and ordinance context). The register differs enough between them that a merge is not asserted, even though both plausibly work for the same department.
• 26 sparse labels of the original 35 are merged into <other> in the source transcript and are out of scope for this roster per the task instructions — no entries were fabricated for them. This includes the self-identified petitioner David Knight [t=272] and public commenter Pauletta Turner [t=627], both of whom named themselves but were not among the nine substantial-speech labels.
• Zero confirmed assignments this meeting. Chair and staff functions remain role-only. Mr. Keller is probable from a direct introduction tied to his petition, and no vote or third-party characterization is assigned to that name.