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Council accepts annual conflict-of-interest disclosures from officials and employees
Summary
Council members accepted a batch of annual conflict-of-interest and financial-disclosure statements from elected officials and town staff that included several spousal relationships and vendor disclosures; the council approved accepting the disclosures in a single motion.
The Whiteland Town Council accepted a set of annual conflict-of-interest disclosures from elected officials and town employees and voted to record them in the public record.
Carmen Young, director of administration, read a set of statements submitted for 2025 and asked the council whether it preferred to accept them all at once or treat any individually. The disclosures included a range of information: vendor relationships, part-time employment, and several spousal relationships where an elected official or employee’s spouse is also a town employee or contractor.
Items read into the record included:
- Michael Pershing — reserve officer; contractor/vendor listed as Managed Services Partners Inc.;…
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