CITY OF RENTON WASHINGTON

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

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

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 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 crucial role in improving our community’s health and environmental resiliency 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 celebrations, 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

Build capacity within the city to implement inclusion and equity by providing the knowledge, skills, awareness, and tools to integrate anti-racism 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, and outcome management