Seattle (Wash.). City Council
Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:
Public Safety and Technology Committee Records
Correspondence, memoranda, draft legislation, staff reports, and notes related to public safety concerns and city-wide technology issues.
Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Technology Committee Records
Reports, public statements, and printed presentations relating to the work of the committee. Major issues include cable franchise options, Police Department accountability, and workplace equality.
Public Safety Committee Agendas
Agendas of the Public Safety Committee during Noland's tenure as committee chair. Agendas are annotated with committee votes, audio tape information, and some marginal notes, and include some background materials related to issues before the committee.
Public Safety Committee Agendas
Agendas of the Public Safety Committee meetings, including agendas from Jane Noland's tenure as chair. Includes hand written notes and annotations regarding votes on proposed legislation and issues before the committee.
Public Safety Committee Records
Records include committee agendas, correspondence, staff reports, and draft legislation relating to public safety issues during the first two years that Rice chaired the Public Safety Committee. Agendas include legislation under consideration and action and recommendations by the committee.
Public Safety, Governmental Relations, and Arts Committee Records
Agendas, correspondence, reports, and draft legislation relating to public safety, police accountability, the arts, and human rights and discrimination. In 2004 and 2005 the committee was known as the Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Arts Committee.
Public Safety, Health, and Technology Committee Records
Agendas, briefing papers, staff reports, draft legislation, and correspondence related to issues before the Public Safety, Health, and Technology Committee.
Public Safety, Human Services, and Education Committee Records
Correspondence, memoranda, draft legislation, staff reports, and other committee records from Burgess's tenure as committee chair. Issues addressed include indigent public defense, youth violence, the siting of Fire Station 20, police accountability, jail services, prostitution, and the Families and Education Levy. From 2010 through 2011, the body was named the Public Safety and Education Committee.
Tom Rasmussen Subject Files
Records relating to issues under discussion during Rasmussen's time on City Council.
City Council Referral Calendars
Lists of proposed legislation and Clerk Files introduced to City Council and subsequently referred to committees. Includes Council Bill and Clerk File numbers, title of document, name of sponsoring Councilmember, and committee to which document was referred.
Regional Development and Sustainability Committee Records
Records of the committee during Conlin's tenure as chair.
Resolutions
City legislation of an administrative or administrative nature, or expressing policy. Resolutions are passed by City Council and may carry the Mayor's signature as an endorsement. Arranged numerically with some early duplicate numbering because resolutions were maintained in two-year series from 1890-1906 with each series beginning with number 1. Beginning with series 1906, resolutions are on microfiche or microfilm cassette.
Randy Revelle Subject Files
Records from Revelle's office during his time on Seattle City Council.
R.F. Stewart Correspondence
Correspondence relating primarily to Council support functions of the City Clerk. The bulk of the material is outgoing correspondence reporting on actions taken by City Council. Principal correspondents include the Board of Public Works, City Comptroller, Corporation Counsel, and Reginald H. Thomson, then City Engineer.
Norm Rice Subject Files
Records documenting Norm Rice's eleven years on the Seattle City Council, 1978-1989; included are correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to Rice's work on financial management, housing, public safety, and education, among other issues.
Jack Richards Subject Files
Records from Richards's office during his term on Seattle City Council.
Alfred R. Rochester Scrapbooks
Two scrapbooks documenting the public career of Al Rochester, as well as the 25th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
Committee of the Whole Minutes
Minutes of City Council when it sits as a committee. Committee of the Whole meets to discuss issues that cross the jurisdiction of two or more Council committees or when issues are considered of such importance that the full Council deems it appropriate to meet as a committee. From 1980 to the present Committee of the Whole minutes are included with the regular meeting minutes.
Select Budget Committee Records
Select Budget Committee records for the 2018 budget.
Dolores Sibonga Subject Files
Correspondence, memoranda, draft legislation, reports, testimony, and notes regarding important issues in the City Council work of Dolores Sibonga, 1979-1990.
Significant Voting Record
Tabulation of legislation "of significant public interest." Includes Council Bill, Comptroller File, or Resolution number; Ordinance number, if applicable; date of Council action; title of legislation; significance of the issue; and each Councilmember's vote. No log was maintained from 1986-1992.
Sam Smith Constituent Correspondence
General correspondence and responses to and from constituents, covering a wide array of topics. The series generally includes complaints, requests to investigate issues and allegations, invitations, thank you letters, and marketing/lobbying correspondence. Many letters are from individuals and organizations seeking Smith's support for issues that are coming before the City Council, or asking his active support for issues taken up by other jurisdictions.
Sam Smith Subject Files
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and studies relating to Smith's activities and interests on City Council, especially during his final six years in office. Primary subjects include utilities, public safety, social services, and issues within the African-American community.
Sam Smith Departmental Correspondence
Utility Committee Records
Correspondence, reports, notes, and agendas of City Council Utilities Committee. Smith chaired the committee during his final term on City Council.
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