Priorities
- Improve neighborhood safety
- Increase active living
- Improve overall health
- Increase housing security
- Improve services to youth and vulnerable populations
- Reduce proverty
- Increase the number and quality of jobs throughout Tacoma
- Diversify Tacoma's living wage business base
- Improve neighborhood business districts
- Strengthen downtown Tacoma as a business core and residential option
- Close the achievement gap
- Prepare people to succeed in Tacoma's workforce
- Increase participation in arts and culture
- Embrace Tacoma's diversity of people, places, and cultures
- Leverage and strengthen Tacoma's arts and cultural assets
- Increase transportation options
- Sustain and improve Tacoma's natural environment
- Grow and enhance the vitality of Tacoma's neighborhood
- Ensure accountable, efficient, and transparent city services
- Improve and maintain Tacoma's streets
- Engage residents, stakeholders, and partners in the future of Tacoma
- Strengthen the City's fiscal sustainability
Posts by category
- Category: Uncategorized
- Tacoma Appoints 2025 Strategic Manager
- Tacoma crime on the decline; theft continues to trend down
- Woodards appointed VC of ‘Jobs, Education, and the Workforce’ committee
- Seattle Reign FC is moving to Tacoma in 2019
- In Pierce County, signs of hope amid the opioid carnage
- Tacoma leaders to push members of Congress on immigrant detention
- Mayor delivers inspiring message at State of the City Address
- Tacoma Adopts Exemplary Reform for In-Law Apartments
- South Tacoma celebrates new library upgrades
- City to spend $1.6 million to help expand homeless shelter at Tacoma Rescue Mission
- Tacoma launches Electric Vehicle Charging Station Pilot Program
- Tacoma’s housing market is now the hottest in U.S. — and Seattle knows why
- Digging into what it means to feel safe in Tacoma
- Salvaging Tacoma’s recycling program to require fees and changes to what goes in the bin
- Tacoma Link expansion marks important breakthrough in community investment but raises questions on rising housing
- Pride flag flies over Tacoma Dome for first time. ‘It’s a big deal,’ says LGBT community
- Goodbye, potholes. Street projects to begin in Tacoma’s North End
- Council hears update on affordable housing
- Sound Transit OKs Bus Rapid Transit For Pacific Ave
- State’s First Transit Oriented Development Advisory Group Established in Tacoma
- Tacoma Fire Department Launches Safe Station Program
- Hilltop Rite Aid site purchased by nonprofit. Plans fluid, but affordable housing in mix
- Tacoma is starving for affordable housing, and efforts to fill the void are lagging
- Study Finds Tacoma Among Best College Towns for Startups
- Tacoma’s parks win national award
- Tacoma completes latest Prairie Line Trail segment
Board Commissions
- Commission On Immigrant And Refugee Affairs
- Tacoma Committee Redevelopment Authority Board
- Tacoma Area Commission On Disabilities
- Human Services Commission
- Human Rights Commission
- Citizen Police Advisory Committee
- Transportation Commission
- Planning Commission
- Sustainable Tacoma Commission
- Landmark Preservation Commission
- Board Of Building Appeals
- Foss Waterway Development Authority
- City Events And Recognitions Committee
- Tacoma Arts Commission
- Public Utility Board
- Civil Service Board
- Board Of Ethics
- Audit Advisory Board
Timelines
- Tacoma 2025 Kickoff
- Steering Committee meetings and community engagement
- Tacoma 2025 vision adopted by City Council
- Tacoma 2025 Advisory Committee established
- Tacoma 2025 Goals and Indicators adopted and prioritized by City Council
- City Department goal and budget alignment to Tacoma 2015
- Develop updated framework based on feedback and involvement from our community
- Advisory Committee updated Tacoma 2025 to include 5 goal areas
- Tacoma City Council identified their highest priority Tacoma 2025 indicators
- Community engagement, data gathering and external alignment