Interdepartmental Neighborhood Coordinating Committee Records
Scope and Contents note
The Interdepartmental Neighborhood Coordinating Committee (INCC) was created in the Office of Neighborhoods in 1988 with a broad mission of coordinating departmental responses to neighborhood needs. The mission was later narrowed to focus on improving citizen access to City departments. The INCC was comprised primarily of public information officers and other public contact people from departments that interacted regularly with neighborhoods. The records include correspondence, schedules of meetings, and minutes. One product, included in the records, that resulted from the committee's work was a directory of City contacts.
Dates
- Creation: 1988-1990
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
0.2 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Location of Records
SMA
Subject
- Seattle (Wash.). Interdepartmental Neighborhood Coordinating Committee (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Office of Neighborhoods (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Neighborhoods (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Interdepartmental Neighborhood Coordinating Committee Records 1988-1990
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository