Mission, Vision and Values
Strategic Plan
View the Strategic Plan fact sheet
Mission
Enhancing your quality of life through exceptional delivery of services and efficient use of public funds.
Vision
A diverse and vibrant County where residents and businesses thrive.
Goals and Specific Outcomes
Be Fiscally Sustainable
Outcomes:
- Fund mandated services to meet best practices and required standards
- Consider strategic use of debt
- Ensure structurally balanced budgets
- Strive for efficiencies
Provide Essential and Mandated Services
Outcomes:
- Perform as stipulated in statutes and regulations
- Remain responsive to community interests
Be Community Focused
Outcomes:
- Promote thriving communities
- Foster personal safety and security
- Nurture individual and collective opportunities
- Provide a healthy natural environment
- Support opportunities for physical health and mental health
Guiding Principles
Primary criteria/guiding principles:
- Support economic vibrancy
- Protect community quality/well-being
- Consider holistic and long-term financial implications in decision-making processes
- Be data centric in identifying needs the County can address
- Hire, develop and retain employees to enhance their growth and opportunities
- Employees understand their vital role in achieving the success of County outcomes
Additional criteria/guiding principles:
- Understand and respond to what our community values
- Preserve our reputation and credibility
- Develop and preserve a culture of inclusion and connectedness
Values
Accountability
We demonstrate accountability by:
- Building trust with community through our decisions and actions
- Holding ourselves to established clear standards, processes, and procedures
- Adhering to a high standard of integrity
- Sharing data and information to demonstrate fiscal responsibility, community responsiveness, and progress on County’s strategic plan
Accessibility
We demonstrate accessibility by:
- Providing services in multiple ways
- Seeking and understanding community interests using a variety of approaches
- Making it easy to contact and connect with the right elected official and staff members
- Being timely in responding to community interests
- Providing facility access to people with differing abilities
Inclusivity
We demonstrate inclusivity by:
- Engaging community and cultural perspectives in decision-making
- Striving for cross-county, cross-cultural representation on advisory boards, committees, task forces
- Demonstrating inclusivity in our recruitment, development, and opportunities for advancement
- Ensuring a welcoming, safe, and respectful environment by reflecting the diversity of Arapahoe County
Integrity
We demonstrate integrity by:
- Doing what we say we will
- Following up, being responsive
- Sharing both the good and the bad
- Willing to admit/own when there is a problem
- Adhering to the County Code of Ethics