Strategic Plan

Goals and objectives

Mobility

Deliver a safe, reliable, and seamless network of transportation options to get people and goods where they need to go when they need to get there.

1. Increase integration between transportation modes and all service providers.
2. Preserve and optimize the mobility system.
3. Ensure the safety and security of customers and employees using the mobility network.
4. Provide more equitable mobility access and reduce historic gaps.

Safety and justice

Provide for a safe and just community through proactive law enforcement and an accessible and fair justice system. Also, to implement alternatives to divert people from the criminal justice system.

1. Enhance community safety.
2. Reduce disproportionate minority representation in the criminal justice system.
3. Increase diversion of young people from the criminal justice system and minimize the harmful effects of incarceration on youth.
4. Reduce incarceration rates in County jails for individuals who do not pose a public safety risk.
5. Support a safe, accessible, and fair justice system by developing long-term, sustainable funding solutions.

Health and human services

Improve the health and well-being of our community.

1. Ensure that babies are born healthy and can establish a strong foundation for lifelong health and well-being.
2. Provide equitable opportunities for all children to progress through childhood safely and in health. Give them academic and life skills to thrive in their community.
3. Reduce disparities and improve overall health and personal well-being to create thriving communities.
4. Improve the outcomes and lower the costs of care in King County by focusing on prevention and recovery from health and social problems.
5. Improve health, social outcomes, and experience of care while lowering County costs for high utilizers of jail with mental health or substance use conditions.

Economic vitality

Increase access to family wage job opportunities throughout the County.

1. Add and retain jobs in King County, prioritizing sectors that lead to family-wage jobs.
2. Improve job pay and benefits for the lowest-wage workers.
3. Provide opportunities for people in low-wage jobs to move up career ladders.
4. Prepare all youth to achieve self-sufficiency and be contributing members of society.

Accessible, affordable housing

Increase access to quality housing that is affordable to all.

1. Improve services to make homelessness rare, brief, and one-time .
2. Provide targeted affordable housing resources to communities and individuals that meet their specific needs.
3. Increase housing stability for low-income families.
4. Seek innovative partnerships to expand the supply and funding of affordable housing.

Healthy environment

Preserve open space and rural character while addressing climate change.

1. Maintain rural character by focusing new growth in urban areas.
2. Protect and support healthy and productive farms, forests, and open spaces.
3. Reduce countywide greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030.
4. Integrate climate preparedness into County operations and provision of public services.

Efficient and accountable regional and local government

Ensure that government operates efficiently and effectively and is accountable to the public.

1. Develop a highly engaged, diverse, culturally responsive, and high-performing workforce.
2. Align funding, policy, and operational goals of King County government with community priorities.
3. Optimize County operations through innovation and continuous improvement.
4. Deliver consistent, responsive, equitable, high-quality services to residents, cities, and districts.
5. Exercise sound financial and risk management and build King County's long-term fiscal strength.