About Raleigh
Our Mission: (updated June 2008)
- We are a 21st Century city of innovation focusing an environmental, cultural and economic sustainability.
- We conserve and protect our environmental resources through best practices and cutting edge conservation and stewardship, land-use, infrastructure and building technologies.
- We welcome growth and diversity through policies and programs that will protect, preserve and enhance Raleigh’s existing neighborhoods, natural amenities, rich history, and cultural and human resources for future generations.
- We work with our universities, colleges, citizens and regional partners to promote emerging technologies, create new job opportunities and cultivate local businesses and entrepreneurs.
- We recruit and train a 21st century staff with the knowledge and skill sets to carry out this mission, through transparent civic engagement and providing the very best customer service to our current citizens in the most efficient and cost effective manner.
City Manager Russell Allen’s Five Strategic Themes
- Customer Service: Investing and integrating new systems, technology, training and organization development programs to help us become the single best local government for direct service anywhere in the country.
- Neighborhood Quality: Developing citizen participation and responsive programs and services to enhance the quality of life for our neighborhoods.
- Capital Projects: Developing our infrastructure (buildings, parks, transportation and utilities) by performing well on our Capital Projects. This will enable us to both keep up with growth and be a place where people want to live.
- Environmental Initiatives: Seek sustainable advances that will assist us in creating a positive environmental impact in the projects we take on and in the way we work.
- Growth: Developing and implementing strategies (for downtown, new and redeveloping neighborhoods, etc.) to manage growth by focusing on our Comprehensive Plan to ensure that Raleigh continues to be a location where people want to live and work.
Take a look at just about any “Best Places to…” list and you will see Raleigh ranked among the top. Taking advantage of all of its advantages, Raleigh has become a model of the good life in 21st century America and an exciting venue for exploring the possibilities of even greater things to come. "Raleigh is a great place to raise a family."
And its advantages are legion – natural, historic and very, very modern.
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