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Asheville council drafts 'Rooted in resilience' recovery vision and six guiding principles
Summary
At a two-day retreat, council members and facilitators drafted a short recovery vision—'Rooted in resilience, rising in unity, ready for tomorrow'—and agreed guiding principles (resilience/sustainability, accountability/transparency, community-centered equity, collaboration/leverage, uniqueness/culture, innovation) to filter recovery decisions.
Council members spent a large portion of the retreat crafting a short, memorable recovery vision and a compact set of guiding principles to steer recovery action.
After small-group breakouts, participants reported back and converged around a three-part tag line that many repeated: "Rooted in resilience, rising in unity, ready for tomorrow." Multiple groups also urged the assembly to explicitly retain a…
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