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.
Written by Councillor Tony Carella,
based on Vaughan Vision 2007
Adopted by the Council of the City of Vaughan February 28, 2005
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