Every citizen has a right to…

• Live, work, and play in a municipality that promotes community safety, health, and wellness, while safeguarding the natural environment.

• Live in a municipality in which all mandated services are delivered effectively and efficiently.

• Live in a municipality in which citizens receive value for their property tax dollar.

• Live in a municipality that plans and manages growth responsibly, including the building, maintenance, and renewal of appropriate infrastructure.

• Live in a municipality that attracts, retains and promotes productive and effective employees committed to their own on-going professional training and growth.

• Live in a municipality that enhances the quality of life of its citizens by providing services beyond those mandated by law.

• Live in a municipality whose government communicates effectively with its citizens.

Every citizen has a responsibility to…

• Avoid behaviour that threatens the safety, health and wellness of fellow citizens or the integrity of the natural environment.

• Acknowledge that municipal services are finite, to be shared fairly with fellow citizens.

• Acknowledge that our security and well-being is built on the willingness of each of us to seek the common good.

• Acknowledge that the orderly growth of our city depends on proper planning, which requires citizen participation.

• Acknowledge that the financial stability of our city and the services we expect it to provide depend in part on the taxes we pay, and that as a consequence new services and new infrastructure must be affordable.

• Acknowledge that staff are professionals, and citizens as well; that they deserve to be treated as such; and that as skilled workers they are best retained by competitive salaries.

• Remember that communication is a mutual affair, and that voting is the most basic form of communication between citizens and their elected representatives.

Adopted by Council, February 28, 2005. View Council Report

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