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

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