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City of Renton Council Retreat
March 7 & 8, 2024 Meeting Agenda
March 8th Activities Time
10. Council/Administration Communication 9:00AM
10.1. Presentation & discussion
AM Break 10:15AM
11. Review Mission and Vision 10:30AM
11.1. Context for SWOT analysis
12. SWOT Analysis 10:45AM
12.1. Strengths
12.2. Weaknesses
12.3. Opportunities
12.4. Threats
12.5.
Lunch
Prioritize
12:15PM
13. Review 5-Year Business Plan 1:00PM
13.1. Review five goal categories and bullets
13.2. Update as appropriate
PM Break 2:30PM
15. Set 2024 Priorities 2:45PM
15.1. Brainstorm
15.2. Consolidate & prioritize
15.3. Frame top 5 Council priorities
16. Wrap Up 4:00PM
16.1. Next steps
16.2. Evaluation
16.3. Closing remarks – Ed Prince
Adjourn Day 2 4:30PM
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Department Presentations
> Human Services
> Budget Overview
> Transportation
> Public Safety
> Com. & Economic Development
> Housing
> Council Code of Ethics
> Council/Admin communications
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Review Vision & Mission Statements
>Vision:
–Renton: The center of opportunity in the Puget Sound Region where
families and businesses thrive.
>Mission:
–The City of Renton, in partnership and communication with residents,
businesses, and schools, is dedicated to: (followed by 5 bullets)
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SWOT Analysis
>Conduct a Situation Analysis:
– List your Strengths
–List your Weaknesses
–List your Opportunities
–List your Threats
–Prioritize the top SWOT conditions
Internal/Controllable
External/Uncontrollable
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SWOT Analysis Primers
> Internal Primers > External Primers
– Product
– Price
Marketing PEST
– Political
– Economic
– Place
– Promotion
Mix Analysis – Social
– Technology
– Facility
– Finance
– People
– Technology
– Customer
– Consumer
– Competitor
– Industry
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Review 5-Year Business Plan
>Review five goal categories and the bullets under each
>One at a time, update as appropriate
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VISION Renton: The center of
opportunity in the Puget Sound Region
where families and businesses thrive
MISSION 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
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
Provide a safe, healthy and vibrant
community
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 economic vitality and
strategically position Renton for
the future
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
Support planned growth and
influence decisions to foster
environmental sustainability
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 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
Build an inclusive, informed and
hate-free city with equitable
outcomes for all in support of
social, economic, and racial justice
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-racist approaches into
daily work
Meet service demands and provide
high-quality customer service
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
Business Plan 2024–2029 GOALS
CITY OF RENTON
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Council 2024 Priorities
>Four Step Process to Surface Your Top Priorities:
1.Brainstorming – Headlines of goal achievements
2.Consolidating – Delete or group duplicate goal concepts
3.Prioritizing – Vote to surface the top five favorite goals
4.Framing – Rewrite top five goals into SMART statements
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T •Time-bound
— Dated, when the goal is to be completed, with milestones
•Realistic
— Within the realm of possibility, one that is achievable
•Assigned
— A person or department is accountable, reports progress
•Measurable
— A quantifiable metric (KPI) or unit to measure progress
•Specific
— A clear, concise statement of what you will accomplish
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Wrap Up
>Next Steps
>Evaluation
>Epilogue
>Closing Remarks – Ed
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