Smart, Citizen-Focused Government
The delivery of quality services is at the heart of Charlottesville’s social compact with its citizens. Charlottesville’s approach to customer service ensures that we have safe neighborhoods, strong schools, and a clean environment. We continually work to employ the optimal means of delivering services, and our decisions are informed at every stage by effective communication and active citizen involvement.
Through informative meetings, engaging discussions and group activities and events, every citizen has a voice and an opportunity to enrich the quality of life of everyone in the Charlottesville community.
Our Vision
To make Charlottesville a city where every neighborhood has the opportunity to succeed in realizing its full potential for contributing to a quality community.
Our Goals
- To empower citizens through training, information sharing, and use of resources
- To facilitate direct linkages between neighbors and their government
- To foster independent problem solving and sharing of assets within and among neighborhoods
- To involve all community assets in expanding and sustaining safe and healthy neighborhoods
Resources
- Neighborhood Representatives
- Neighborhood Factsheets
- Energy Resource Hub: A free service that connects homeowners, renters, and businesses in the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County with clean energy and weatherization rebates and incentives.
- Green Incentives & Rebates: Incentives and resources to support and promote green building practice (including energy efficiency, energy conservation, renewable energy generation, and water conservation.)
- Residential Retrofit Mini-Grant: All households are eligible for up to $2,000 of assistance for a variety of Home energy-saving improvements. This is a very popular program, explore your options today!
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