The city of Renton and King County are working to prepare the city for disasters with a hazard mitigation plan.

The Renton City Council adopted the 2025 to 2030 King County Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan and the city’s annex of the plan on Sept. 8.

Renton Emergency Management Director Deborah Needham said the purpose of the plan is to lessen the likelihood of a hazard or disaster occurring, or lessen the damage from the disaster.

“The plan is a driver for being able to mitigate against things that haven’t happened yet, but that are possible or probable,” Needham said. “The reason we do a mitigation plan is because the things we know are going to happen as a surprise, we are never going to have the budget to absorb them all at once.”

Needham said money they invest to mitigate problems

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