Mission and Vision

Mission Statment

The mission of the City of Beaufort is to provide responsible, cost-effective, and courteous service with professionalism and integrity.

Vision Statment

Beaufort is a community of choice, building on our history and working in harmony with our natural environment to provide diverse opportunities for the highest quality of life.

Key Achievements in 2011

Financial Strength of the City

  • Maintained, if not raised the level of services despite 25 percent less revenue by reinventing some of the ways we do business
  • Used savings from two years of staff reorganization to invest in the future by starting and almost completing the majority of the Civic Master Plan.  To be completed in 2012, this effort may be the most comprehensive in the state
  • Began to look at ways to leverage tourism dollars through collaboration with the private sector
  • Negotiated agreements wtih Burton and Lady's Island Fire Departments to most efficiently serve Beaufort residents

Redevelopment Commission / Planning

  • Achieved grant funding for at least three major capital projects, including a $12.6 million federal DOT grant for Boundary Street Redevelopment that is the 16th largest in the United States
  • Found productive uses for three City owned buildings that will stimulate growth in the greater downtown area
  • Expanded civic engagement by strengthening the neighborhood improvement process and stimulated and fostered additional neighborhood associations which collaborate with the City and Public Works, Public Safety and Planning; working together, we removed more than 400 tons of debris from Beaufort nieghborhoods in 2010-2011
  • Established a regional collaborative planning initiative throught the creation of the Beaufort Port Royal Metropolitan Planning Commission

Celebrated our History while planning for the future......

  • Completed an inclusive Tricentennial Celebration of Beaufort's 300th Birthday, paid almost completely by private sector partnering and contributions
  • Created the Tricentennial Committee which launched the Beaufort 300 Fund to seek private, corporate and non-profit donations for new historical markers in the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park