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Seattle Municipal Archives Finding Aids

Seattle (Wash.). City Council

 Organization

Found in 173 Collections and/or Records:

Public Safety and Technology Committee Records

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4620-03
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, draft legislation, staff reports, and notes related to public safety concerns and city-wide technology issues.

Dates: 2000-2003

Public Safety, Civil Rights, and Technology Committee Records

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4632-05
Scope and Contents Note

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.

Dates: 2012-2015

Public Safety Committee Agendas

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 4663-04
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1996-1997

Public Safety Committee Agendas

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4667-04
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1988-1997

Public Safety Committee Records

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4674-04
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1986-1987

Public Safety, Governmental Relations, and Arts Committee Records

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4650-06
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 2004-2007

Public Safety, Health, and Technology Committee Records

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4670-07
Scope and Contents note

Agendas, briefing papers, staff reports, draft legislation, and correspondence related to issues before the Public Safety, Health, and Technology Committee.

Dates: 1998-1999

Public Safety, Human Services, and Education Committee Records

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4615-03
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 2008-2011

Tom Rasmussen Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 4672-02
Abstract

Records relating to issues under discussion during Rasmussen's time on City Council.

Dates: 2003-2015

City Council Referral Calendars

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4600-06
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1981-2000

Regional Development and Sustainability Committee Records

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4621-06
Abstract

Records of the committee during Conlin's tenure as chair.

Dates: 2010-2011

Resolutions

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1801-09
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1890-2017

Randy Revelle Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 4673-02
Abstract

Records from Revelle's office during his time on Seattle City Council.

Dates: 1973-1981

R.F. Stewart Correspondence

 Series
Identifier: 1810-02
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1894-1896

Norm Rice Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 4674-02
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1973-1992

Jack Richards Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 4675-02
Abstract

Records from Richards's office during his term on Seattle City Council.

Dates: 1977-1982

Alfred R. Rochester Scrapbooks

 Series
Identifier: 4678-02
Abstract

Two scrapbooks documenting the public career of Al Rochester, as well as the 25th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.

Dates: 1940-1987

Committee of the Whole Minutes

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4600-02
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1959-1977

Select Budget Committee Records

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 4635-04
Abstract

Select Budget Committee records for the 2018 budget.

Dates: 2017

Dolores Sibonga Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 4681-02
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, draft legislation, reports, testimony, and notes regarding important issues in the City Council work of Dolores Sibonga, 1979-1990.

Dates: 1979-1990

Significant Voting Record

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 1801-14
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1980-2002

Sam Smith Constituent Correspondence

 Series
Identifier: 4682-01
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1989-1991

Sam Smith Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 4682-02
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: 1977-1991

Sam Smith Departmental Correspondence

 Series
Identifier: 4682-03
Scope and Contents note Correspondence to and from City departments and regional agencies, including letters to Smith which he forwarded to relevant departments for their response. The largest body of material relates to utilities, public works, parks, and public safety. The vast majority of the correspondence comprises constituent regarding charges of racial discrimination, complaints against the Seattle Police Department, issues related to utility billing, and the discontinuation of utility services. In some...
Dates: 1984-1991

Utility Committee Records

 Series
Identifier: 4682-04
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, notes, and agendas of City Council Utilities Committee. Smith chaired the committee during his final term on City Council.

Dates: 1991

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Public safety -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 12
Zoning 12
Civil Rights 11
Monorail System 11
Cable Television 9
Land Use Planning 9
Traffic 9
Alaskan Way Viaduct (Seattle, Wash.) 8
Energy -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 8
Historic preservation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 8
Homeless 8
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Parks for dogs -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 8
Solid Waste 8
Transportation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 8
Bicycles and bicycling -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 7
Civil rights -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 7
Comprehensive Plan 7
Labor Relations 7
Neighborhood planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 7
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 7
City planning 6
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Data processing -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 6
Disabled Persons 6
Discrimination in housing -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 6
Economic Development 6
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Land use -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 6
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Mass Transit 6
Monorail railroads -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 6
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SAFECO Field (Seattle, Wash.) 6
Seattle (Wash.) -- Politics and government 6
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West Seattle Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) 6
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City planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 5
Education 5
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Homelessness -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 5
KeyArena (Seattle, Wash.) 5
Light Rail Transit 5
Pike Plaza Redevelopment Project 5
South Lake Union (Seattle, Wash.) 5
Taxicabs -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 5
Transportation -- Planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 5
Urban Renewal Program 5
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Waterfronts -- planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 5
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Children -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
City council members -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Code of Ethics 4
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Energy conservation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Exotic Animals 4
Express highways -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Gambling 4
Government and Politics 4
Gun Control 4
Kingdome (Seattle, Wash.) 4
Neighborhood Plans 4
Open Space Land 4
Parking 4
Pedestrians 4
Pike Place Market (Seattle, Wash.) 4
Police shootings -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Police-community relations -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Prostitution 4
Public defenders -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Public utilities -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Regional Transportation Planning 4
Regional planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
Seattle Commons 4
Seattle Commons (Seattle, Wash.) 4
Shorelands 4
Signs and Billboards 4
Sister Cities 4
Smoking law and legislation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle 4
South Lake Union 4