What do you think is your personal responsibility to help make your city or community better?

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Permalink Reply by Michael McCarthy, APR on May 5, 2011 at 11:49am

Dan Kleman, the former City Manager of Tallahassee, Florida, used the Athenian Oath as an example of how we should serve our City as employees.  It's been better than any mission statement I have seen since.

We will never bring disgrace on this our City by an act of dishonesty or cowardice.

We will fight for the ideals and Sacred Things of the City both alone and with many.

We will revere and obey the City's laws, and will do our best
to incite a like reverence and respect in those above us
who are prone to annul them or set them at naught.

We will strive increasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty.

Thus in all these ways we will transmit this City, not only not less,
but greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.

 

Permalink Reply by Kevin Curry on May 6, 2011 at 4:19pm

Good stuff man!