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Stephanie Wiechmann
The ordinance would have required adding an “In God we trust” decal to all police and fire vehicles. In September, it had been approved on first reading on a party line vote by Republicans. Last month, when asked, Council President Jeff Green did not say who proposed the decals. This month, Mayor Dan Ridenour said the city won't have to pay the approximately $ 1,200 it would cost for the decals.

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Dan Ridenour
I would be totally happy to pay for that out of EDIT. However, I received a phone call this afternoon and there are some anonymous givers, I'm not even sure who they are, who are willing to pay for it, so it won't have to cost the city anything.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Council member Sara Gullion questioned that phone call.

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Sara Gullion
This particular ordinance was brought to President Green by a group of anonymous people. Okay. Now the mayor is saying that a group of anonymous people would pay for this. There's absolutely no transparency in this. Although I think we all have some idea where it originally came from.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
With two absent Republican council members, the ordinance was voted down 4 to 3. I'm Stephanie Wiechmann in Muncie.