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language. Carnival stated that the current code that is in place is one that a lot of people put a lot of effort into and time. I recognize that nothing can be voted on outside of the public, but if we can't discuss it at a Chamber dinner with a citizen about a problem then I feel there is something wrong. Carnival asked the city attorney if he has reviewed the current ethics code and found any problem with it. Williams stated that he has not reviewed it in terms of detail in order to tell you if we should or shouldn't have certain facts. The language is a little rough but for a document it is more than adequate for an ethics code. There can be changes if council or citizen groups want. What I have seen done is staff would prepare working language. Carnival stated he would suggest to have our staff look at the current code make any corrections, clean it up, make it more specific if it needs to be and then allow council to look at it, then at that time if we would like to see a citizens group get involved for their input prior to making a formal document out of it then I would be all in favor of that. Mayor Fauson suggested that we do ask staff to give us more direction on this or do the language, that they also look and see where the bill before state is concerning the ethics code. Davidson did not see anything wrong with the citizens setting higher and more restricted standards for the council. I think we should be conducting standards so it meets with the community. Sackett liked the idea of having a citizens advisory committee, the only thing that I am troubled with is the possibility that we don't utilize the represented government concept. What I would like to do is establish how many people would be interested in being on this committee and then based on those maybe the council could establish a board that we think would represent all to