Voice and inclusion come straight from the Engage our community goal (ensure all members of our community have a voice, engage those traditionally underrepresented or disillusioned) and shaped concrete choices: assemblies for youth, seniors, Spanish speakers and later Filipino and African American communities, interpretation, childcare, a voting age of 16 then 14, no citizenship or registration requirement and 24 accepted forms of ID. Transparency and accountability were added as the Open up government goal in Cycle 2 and were tested that same cycle, when 15 of 42 proposals were ruled ineligible by an internal City review and delegates learned of it by a Friday e-mail; the three-stage vetting introduced in Cycle 3 is the repair. Equity became operational only in Cycle 3, when 15 percent of the pot was reserved for programs serving at least 51 percent low- to moderate-income residents under CDBG rules. Shared power is the value the founding resolution promised (real power to make decisions) but every rulebook keeps final say with the City Council and ballot eligibility with the City Manager and City Attorney, so it is marked aspirational. Deliberative quality came in with the Participatory Budgeting Project's design (small facilitated groups, neutral facilitators, no whole-room debate). Civic pride is a write-in: the rulebooks explicitly aim to build a new spirit of civic pride and raise the profile of Vallejo, and the City pursued awards and media coverage accordingly.