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Cary council and staff review mission and values, favor keeping core principles while proposing wording tweaks
Summary
At the retreats values session staff reviewed Carys mission and the 11 statement-of-values (adopted 2006); council breakout groups largely retained the values as core but recommended language changes (use 'community' or 'residents' instead of 'citizens,' add safety, equity and transparency, and reframe growth to emphasize balance and maintenance).
Town staff led a session reviewing Carys mission and its adopted statement of values, then asked council members to sort those values into "timeless" (core) and "timely" (priorities) buckets and suggest edits.
Allison Hutchins, director of organizational development, summarized the history: Carys statement of values dates to 2006 and the Imagine Cary Community Plan (adopted 2017) serves as the towns long-range blueprint. Hutchins asked members to use breakout tables to indicate…
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