The planning process resulted in a new mission and vision, updated values, and a reaffirmation of the diversity statement.
Our mission: Tompkins County safeguards and enhances lives by providing services driven by the needs of its community.
Our Vision: All Tompkins County residents thrive in a supportive, healthy, safe, and inclusive environment.
Our Values:
- Respect: We embrace a safe and inclusive culture and treat each other with dignity, understanding, and compassion.
- Accountability: We embrace our vital role as public servants by pursuing excellence while holding ourselves, each other, and the organization responsible for decisions that impact the community.
- Integrity: We commit to making conscious choices to act ethically in all endeavors, including following through on our commitments, admitting and learning from our mistakes, and being honest with the community and one another.
- Equity: We sustain a workplace community that ensures fairness through diversity and inclusion by embracing learning and best practices, eliminating structurally oppressive systems, and building trust, appreciation, a sense of belonging, and opportunities for all.
- Stewardship: We value our human, financial, and environmental resources and provide services in a manner that responsibly manage and preserve those resources into the future.
Diversity Statement: Tompkins County Government centers diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to the empowerment of employees and residents to dismantle systemic barriers that inhibit inclusive governance and the provision of government services to all.