Our Values

The CSC's Values

• Integrity: We fulfill our charge as an independent quasi-judicial body committed to ensuring fair administration of our responsibilities.
• Equity:  We pledge to treat employees who appear before the commission with impartiality, fairness, and justice. The commission recognizes that implicit bias and inequities are present in all social systems and works to eliminate them.
• Accessibility:  We are open, available, and engaged with employees who feel harmed by alleged violations of the personnel rules and appeal to the Commission. We seek to reduce barriers to being heard and listen to employees who seek fairness in appeals of demotions, terminations, suspensions, and alleged violations of personnel rules. 

The Civil Service Commission embraces the City of Seattle's Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) and equitable treatment of employees. The CSC is actively working to embed racial equity in its processes and to dismantle racist structures and practices over which it has control or influence. 

We recognize that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people.