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Stephanie Wiechmann
The process begins with appointing an ethics advisory committee. After discussions among council members, it will have nine bipartisan members. Some have to be lawyers, human resource professionals, accountants and ethics and government professors at Ball State. But not all. The resolution passed Monday night comes from Council President Jeff Robinson, who is running for mayor this year as a Democrat.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
He says he didn't want any members of council or the city administration serving on the committee.

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Jeff Robinson
Most elected officials are, I'm sure, very good people who really try to do their best. But we all know that there are rotten apples out there. So I wish that I could say and trust that we can police ourselves, but we just can't.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
That committee will have 18 months to decide what an ethics commission or new code of ethics should look like in Muncie. Then, as Councilman Troy Ingram says, they'll bring those ideas back to the city council.

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Troy Ingram
This resolution is only to form a committee that will develop the code of ethics and establish the actual enforcement procedure. We're not actually confirming that we're going to do this or anything else.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
The council will appoint members of the Ethics Advisory Committee in future meetings. In Muncie, Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.