Business Plan

Vision

Renton: The center of opportunity in the Puget Sound Region where families and businesses thrive.

The City of Renton, in partnership and communication with residents, businesses, and schools, is dedicated to:

Provide a safe, healthy, vibrant community
Promote economic vitality and strategically position Renton for the future
Support planned growth and influence decisions to foster environmental sustainability and preservation
Build an inclusive informed and hate-free city with equitable outcomes for all in support of social, economical, and racial justice
Meet service demands and provide high-quality customer service with measurable outcomes

Promote safety, health, and security through effective communication and service delivery
Facilitate successful neighborhoods through community involvement
Encourage and partner in the development of quality housing choices for people of all ages and income levels
Support the growing need of human services funding to address the challenges of housing and mental health
Promote a walkable, pedestrian and bicycle-friendly city with complete streets, trails, and connections between neighborhoods and community focal points
Provide opportunities for communities to be better prepared for emergencies

Promote Renton as the progressive, opportunity-rich city in the Puget Sound region
Actively seek grants and other funding opportunities
Capitalize on opportunities through bold and creative economic development strategies
Recruit and retain businesses to ensure a dynamic, diversified employment base
Nurture entrepreneurship and foster successful partnerships with businesses and community leaders
Leverage public/private resources to focus development on economic centers

Foster development of vibrant, sustainable, attractive, mixed-use neighborhoods in urban centers
Uphold a high standard of design and property maintenance
Advocate Renton’s interests through county, state and federal lobbying efforts, regional partnerships and other organizations
Pursue transportation and other regional improvements and services that improve quality of life
Assume a critical role in improving our community’s health and environmental resiliency by addressing impacts of climate change for future generations
Pursue initiatives to increase mobility, promote clean energy in our existing buildings and in new development, preserve and expand open spaces and tree coverage, and other efforts to reduce CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions

Achieve equitable outcomes by eliminating racial, economic and social barriers in internal practices, city programs, services, and policies such as hiring and contracting
Improve access to city services, programs and employment, provide opportunities and eradicate disparities for residents, workers and businesses
Promote understanding and appreciation of our diversity through community partnership, educational forums and festivals
Seek out opportunities for ongoing two-way dialogue with all communities, engage those historically marginalized, and ensure that we lift every voice, listen and take action on what we learn
Maintain focus within the city to implement inclusion, equity and belonging by providing the knowledge, skills, awareness, and tools to integrate anti-racist approaches into daily work

Plan, develop, and maintain quality services, infrastructure, and amenities
Prioritize services at levels that can be sustained by revenue
Retain a skilled workforce by making Renton the municipal employer of choice
Develop and maintain collaborative partnerships and investment strategies that improve services
Respond to growing service demands through partnerships, innovation, technologies and outcome management