Tree Fund Records
Scope and Contents note
Initially called the Urban Forestry Projects Fund, the Tree Fund provided trees and planting/maintenance training to neighborhood groups. Started in 1996, the fund offered both street trees for residential planting strips and trees for urban forests in park sites. Records include applications and reports on individual projects, organized by year. Some final reports include photographs.
Dates
- Creation: 1996-2010
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.
Extent
2.4 Cubic Feet (6 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Grant records from the Neighborhood Matching Fund's Tree Fund.
Subject
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Neighborhoods (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Tree Fund Records 1996-2004
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Julie Kerssen
- Date
- © 2010
- 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/xv63833
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository