Spokane’s mission/vision statement states that very thing. Theirs starts by saying “In the year 2000…” which clearly sets the stage for what it is they want to accomplish, how they plan to do it, and ultimately commits them to revisit their document again for revision and reflection. Did they do what they say they were going to? If not, why? And how do they change that? The other examples were pretty stale and standard public service rhetoric of “Protect and Serve”. All three of the examples use the word mission in their statements, Spokane’s does not. Two of the examples use terms such as “cooperatively and working with”, as opposed to Spokane, which uses “partnership”. Being cooperative and working with are different than expressing a
