The Mission of the Village of Royal Palm Beach Mayor and Council is to represent the public interest, promote quick, courteous response to residents' problems, provide leadership and direction to the Village's future, and assure the present and future fiscal integrity of the municipal government.

His friends say he is principled and cannot avoid speaking straightforwardly, which means he is unwilling to provide benign, even courteous, responses when a line of questioning strikes him as foolish.

Pedestrians walk up at stoplights and ask for directions - and they expect a courteous response.

His remark elicited a courteous response from half a dozen hyena engineers.

Barbara Schechter, executive director of the licensing division, came up with the 50 courteous responses by looking over letters sent by passengers praising drivers.

Earlier this year, Ian McDonald of Port Hope, Ontario, wrote to describe the courteous response of this line after he and his wife had to fly to Alberta for his father's funeral in July 1988.

Yet I've never received anything but a restrained and courteous professional response.

When the noise from a private party on the pool deck again threatened sleep around 1 A.M., a call to the desk elicted a courteous and immediate response.

Lioth crooned in the darkness beyond them and Ruth, turning his head toward the bronze dragon, made a courteous response.

To the civil greetings that saluted them along the way, where Cadfael was well known, and these his companions matter for friendly curiosity, the older man made quiet, courteous response.