“Public Participation is any process that involves the public in problem solving or decision-making, and that uses the public’s input to make better decisions.” (http://www.iap2usa.org/ethics)

We will help you make sensible and durable decisions that meet the needs of your agency. We make it possible for you to integrate public values with the best science and technical expertise. In doing so, we enable agency staff and stakeholders to develop relationships of mutual trust and openness.

We are passionate about good public policy and about enabling all those whose lives will be impacted by public decisions to have a voice in those decisions.

Public participation services from TMOC can help you

• Improve relationships between stakeholders and agency staff.

• Allow your technical staff to do what they do best, while we design a process that allows them to interact productively with the public.

• Make good decisions that will last, because they address the needs of all participants, including those of the decision-makers.

• Have pleasant public meetings that give you the input you need.

Ethics and integrity are important to us at The Mary Orton Company. Click here to see the standards of the International Association of Public Participation by which we offer public participation services.

We also subscribe to the Core Values of the International Association of Public Participation.