Guiding Principles:

• Balance - We strive to maintain an equal and balanced foundation with our customers, responsibilities, goals, and relationships.
  
  
• Customer Focus - Our customers, whether internal or external, are the primary focus of our projects, processes, and products.
  
  
• Environmental Excellence - We ensure that all our projects, processes, and products incorporate an environmental ethic.
  
  
• Innovation - We encourage new ideas and best practices, challenge the status quo, and operate in the spirit of continuous improvement.
  
  
• Integrity - We hold others and ourselves to the highest ethical standards.
  
  
• Leadership - We lead by example with the highest professional standards and serve as "ambassadors" for the environment, in which we live and work.
  
  
• Open Communication - We ensure open and continuous communication.
  
  
• Results - We encourage the use of quantifiable measures throughout the Department to hold ourselves accountable and to assess accomplishment of our missions, work plans, and process improvement efforts.
  
  
• Teamwork - We use our diverse backgrounds, talents, and perspectives to produce better final products.
  
  
• Trusting Partnerships - We establish and maintain trusting partnerships through continuous, open communication and by developing and working toward mutual goals.