Strategic Plan

Under Secretary Roger Millar, WSDOT's Strategic Plan is undergoing updates to improve how the agency does business. The Strategic Plan provides the vision, mission and values guide WSDOT's work focusing on three key areas: Diversity-Equity-Inclusion, Resilience, and Workforce Development.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Goal

Diversity-Equity-Inclusion efforts ensure WSDOT purposefully engages with and listens to its employees, communities, and partners as these groups collaborate to deliver the program.

WSDOT has expanded its previous goal of Inclusion to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. WSDOT has many activities underway in this area, including implementing the agency's DEI Plan, working to achieve a more inclusive workplace culture (Culture of Belonging), and incorporating the Healthy Environment For All Act (HEAL ACT) into its programs and services. The agency has recently changed the team's name of the team to focus on those topics to define its work better; the Office of Equal Opportunity, also known as OEO, is now the Office of Equity and Civil Rights.

Resilience Goal

Resilience inspires the agency to plan how to preserve and sustain the multimodal transportation system in a future of challenges including aging infrastructure, changing weather patterns, natural disasters, and other emergencies.

The Practical Solutions goal from past years has evolved into Resilience. While Practical Solutions remains a large part of how the agency does business day in and day out, the expanded focus now includes addressing the resilience of the state's transportation system. For WSDOT, resilience means the ability to mitigate, prepare for and respond to emergencies; combat climate change; and build a transportation system that provides equitable services, improves multimodal access, and supports Washington's long-term resilience. In some ways this is a continuation of work the agency has always done. Still, it is also a bigger picture focusing on the many ways to make the agency as prepared, nimble, and responsive as it can be—not only for agency staff but also for the people WSDOT serves and the state.

Workforce Development Goal

Workforce Development ensures that WSDOT attracts, supports, and retains a quality workforce possessing the skills to meet legislative, regulatory, service, and public expectations.

Overall, Workforce Development has remained steady as many of the other goal areas have transformed. This is purposeful as the feedback received from employees and managers has been that Workforce Development should remain a key component of WSDOT's strategy as an agency. WSDOT has many activities underway in this area including, recruitment activities, communication about the general wage increases and classification changes, High School to Highways program, and Mates In-Training Program at WSF.