All governments working together provides a better tool through which the people of Oregon can achieve their aspirations. Obtaining our preferred future requires a partnership guided by the following principles:
1) Work together to support each Oregon community’s vision for the future. Help them see how their individual vision can fit into and support a shared vision for Oregon. Such visions should be collaboratively developed and widely communicated, understood and supported.
2) Work together to achieve the vision, with accountability established through negotiated, locally appropriate outcomes.
3) Put aside past differences — build trust and courage to change.
4) Take the reasonable risks that change and innovation require: be positive, constructive and proactive; listen to and understand each other; tell each other what we want and what’s happening — avoid surprises; stand together, openly and honestly, with the public and the press.
5) Include each other and all stakeholders, private and public — respect the diversity of Oregonians, their communities and their viewpoints.
6) Build policies and services from the local level. Respect local uniqueness. Maximize local flexibility. Strengthen local capacity. Focus governmental resources on community goals and negotiate conditions for transfer of responsibility.
7) Recognize the power of concerted action. Expand the opportunities to work together.
8) Negotiate responsibilities based on common goals, not traditional positions.
9) Mobilize public and private resources to achieve common goals. Be good stewards of Oregon’s values and resources.
10) Maintain the continuity and integrity of the partnership and its goals. Meet regularly to ensure the application of these principles and enhancement of the partnership.
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