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IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN OUR COMMUNITIES

Since 1914, ICMA has provided technical and management assistance, training, online services, and publications to appointed local government managers and administrators in cities, counties, and regional entities throughout the world. The management decisions made by ICMA's members, who number nearly 8,000, affect more than 100 million individuals in thousands of communi-ties-from small towns with populations of a few hundred to metropolitan areas serving several million.MAINTAINING THE HIGHEST PUBLIC SERVICE ETHICS STANDARDS

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Maintaining public trust and confidence in local government, achieving equity and social justice, affirming human dignity, and improving the quality of life for the individual and the community is the major component of ICMA's mission.

A unique aspect of the association is its members' strong commitment to ethics education and enforcement. Since 1924, ICMA has maintained a Code of Ethics-comprising 12 tenets with guidelines-that establishes professional and personal standards for local govern-ment managers. The ICMA Code of Ethics is aggressively enforced by a peer review process that involves investigating complaints and sanctioning violators through public and private censures and expulsion from ICMA membership.

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