Achieving Community Values (ACV) met at the Historic Y on Monday October 3, 2011 from 11:30 AM until 1 PM. In attendance were Anita Fonte, Ron Spark, Michelle Crow and Donald Ijams. The group reviewed past meetings, current events and the issue of limited and consistent participation in the ACV group.
The broad ACV purpose remains the same: to use the full range of community values as uncovered during Imagine Greater Tucson's Phase I, and through other processes, as guidance for community-based decisions and actions. ACV believes that community values expressed by the public through purposeful public dialogue should play a strong and continuing role in the life of the region. Connections between decisions being made and underlying community values and aspirations should be overt, continually sought and celebrated when found. Tough questions should be asked by ACV about how and whether programs and directions connect with community values. For example, when public policies are being created, ACV can ask: “By this effort are we achieving community values?”
The Achieving Community Values group is looking for support and collaboration from any source in the region which shares ACV values and principles. ACV welcomes participation by and alliances with like minded individuals and organizations. For example, consistent with its purpose and vision, ACV is currently serving as a public values advocacy resource as it assists Community360 in developing a 2012 Arizona Humanities Council's Project Civil Discourse Proposal. If funded, Community360 and its fiscal agent and project convener, Pima Community College-Downtown campus, will be implementing a series of campus and community public events in 2012 which focus on the Livable Tucson issue and IGT Phase I identified values within the Governance and Leadership area.
ACV will meet again in early 2012, if not before, to connect and to review inquiries and prospects.
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