DCR believes that it is our responsibility to look toward the future and to provide visionary leadership. Risk taking and entrepreneurism should be encouraged and rewarded. Solutions within the community are better developed through opportunities created by market-driven sectors than through government mandates. The private sector deserves a bold voice through its chamber of commerce

promoting the needs and views of the business community.

We believe that local focus and concern for regional impact should direct policy and planning directions for the organization.

The business community should take a broad, rather tha narrow or parochial, view in addressing issues, because business competes in a national and global economy.