Vision
We Dream Big and Deliver

Mission
We are dedicated to delivering superior services to enhance the lives of everyone in our community.

Values

• Innovation - We excel in creativity, flexibility and the use of best practices while valuing diverse backgrounds, ideas and perspective.
• Passion - We are a high-performing, inclusive team inspiring each other to pursue excellence.
• Opportunity - We value our diversity, embrace possibilities, face challenges, persevere and take action to deliver quality results.

The City employs more than 700 full-time employees and 300 temporary/seasonal employees. Together, we provide essential services to residents through our municipal court, community and economic development, parks, golf, hospitality, housing, police, public works, and utilities departments. Several internal support service departments including human resources, finance, legal, and information technology assist in accomplishing the City's mission. Our organization is not only a great place to work; our employees are dedicated to making Arvada a great place to live.

Our Organizational Culture
The culture of an organization can be related to the human body's DNA. Culture determines how everything else in the organization operates, reflecting deeply held values and beliefs. In 2016, the City embarked on a process to redefine and improve our organizational culture. Some 80 employees at all levels of the organization participated in this process, drafting our Vision, Mission, and Values Statements that define both who we are and what we want to be. The City of Arvada's Organizational Development initiative is a deliberately planned, organization-wide effort to become a high-performing, results-oriented, and customer-focused organization.

This is our journey to becoming excellent and being among the "Best of the Best."

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are inextricably linked to our ability to achieve our organizational goals, to be an employer of choice and to deliver our mission of "delivering superior services to enhance the lives of everyone in our community."

Our DEI Commitment & Goals
We have an opportunity to listen, learn and act as a City to continue to build a local government that serves everyone. We commit to the following actions:
 

• Offer internal training on a variety of equity, diversity and inclusion topics; requiring all leaders to attend anti-bias training.
• Assess our services for equity and inclusion improvements.
• Create and evaluate policies and key performance measures to support DEI initiatives and achieve greater inclusivity on our platforms.
• Partner with external experts within each business area for enhancing our service delivery.
• Research and implement best practices per work system to enhance the lives of everyone in our community.