Community Issues (Newsletter)
Scope and Contents note
Monthly newsletters detailing neighborhood issues throughout the city. Neighborhood Service Center coordinators sent reports to the department director outlining issues in their districts. The director compiled the district reports into a single newsletter which was then sent to the mayor, city council members, and department directors. Highlighted topics include transportation issues and improvements, building projects, grand openings, elections, honors, announcements, visits by the mayor and city council members, meetings, new programs, accidents and crimes, events, and public hearings.
Dates
- Creation: 1991-2003
Creator
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Neighborhoods (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access note
Records are open to the public.
Historical Note
The Department of Neighborhoods was created in 1991 by consolidating staff from the Executive Department's Citizens Service Bureau and Office of Neighborhoods, the Community Service Centers of the Department of Human Resources, and the Neighborhood Assistance Division of the Department of Community Development. The Office of Urban Conservation, the City's historic preservation agency, was added in 1992. The following year, the department added a community development function by taking over projects in the Central Area, Southeast Seattle, and the Port of Seattle. In 1999, the Neighborhood Planning Office was abolished and its continuing functions were assumed by the Department of Neighborhoods. The Department's mission is to bring local government closer to the citizens by maintaining a responsive presence in Seattle neighborhoods, by responding to citizen concerns and complaints, and providing a communications link for neighborhoods on City issues that will have an impact on them. The department operates the Neighborhood Service Centers (Little City Halls), administers the Neighborhood Matching Grant Program, staffs the Landmarks Preservation Board, and manages the P-Patch program.
Full Extent
0.8 Cubic Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Newsletters detailing issues in neighborhoods across Seattle.
Arrangement note
Records are arranged chronologically.
Subject
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Neighborhoods (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Community Issues 1991-2003
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Alyssa Enders
- Date
- ĂĹ 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for processing this record series was provided through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- EAD Location
- http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv12023
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository