The city council finds that ongoing citizen engagement, public participation and community collaboration enhance local government’s effectiveness, expand its range of options, improve the quality of its decisions, and enlist the problem-solving capacities of the general public and organizations outside local government. The city council also recognizes that knowledge and talent are widely dispersed in society, and all benefit when those skills and abilities are directed toward common goals. The city council finds that public agencies and municipal authorities should collaborate with the general public and state, regional, and local government agencies, tribes, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other nongovernmental stakeholders to accomplish public work and deliver public services more efficiently and effectively. The city council finds that the city of Sedona has, throughout its history as a municipal government, striven to engage citizens in different areas and aspects of municipal governance and through this new chapter seeks to further strengthen its commitment to citizen engagement, public participation and community engagement. [Ord. 2013-12 § 1, 12-10-2013; Res. 2013-31 Exh. A, 12-10-2013].