Fleets and Facilities Department Director's Records
Scope and Contents note
Files of the Director of the Fleets and Facilities Department, including Director’s files from its predecessor agencies, the General Services Department, Department of Administrative Services (DAS) and Executive Services Department. Records date from 1975-1987 and 1999-2002 with the bulk of the records falling in the earlier period and deriving from DAS. Files include correspondence, subject files, organizational charts, reports (including division directors’ weekly reports), agreements, and agendas. Topics include the reorganization to form the Department of Administrative Services, city real estate, buildings, vehicles, shops, office services, printing, duplication, telecommunications, data processing, procurement of computers and information systems, space planning, DAS budgets, rules and procedures. Also includes information about the Department’s participation from 1976 to 1984 in the U.S. Air Force’s Education In Industry program which assigned Air Force officers to the City’s Fleets Division for transportation management training. Departmental correspondence with the Mayor’s Office is included in the later records
Dates
- Creation: 1975-2009
Creator
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Fleets and Facilities (Organization)
- Bauer, Brenda (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
Records are open to the public.
Historical Note
The Fleets and Facilities Department (FFD) manages and maintains municipal real property and facilities, as well as overseeing the City’s vehicle fleet. FFD was created in 2001 in a reorganization of the Executive Services Department, which was itself created from a merger between the Finance Department, the Personnel Department, and the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) in 1997. DAS was created in 1980 with the merger of certain functions of the General Services Department, Building Department, Division of Motor Transportation, and Office of Management and Budget.
Full Extent
17.4 Cubic Feet (44 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Director's records of the department responsible for the City's internal services, properties, vehicles, data processing, etc.
Arrangement note
Boxes 3 to 32 are arranged according to the original coded filing system.
Subject
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Administrative Services (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Executive Services Dept. (Organization)
- Doolittle, Frank L. (Person)
- Pernsteiner, George (Person)
- Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Fleets and Facilities (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). Mayor (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). General Services Dept. (Organization)
Geographic
Topical
- Automobile parking -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Building management -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Computer systems -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Facilities
- Fire stations -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Parking
- Police stations -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Purchasing agents -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Telecommunication systems -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Title
- Guide to the Seattle Fleets And Facilities Department Director's Records 1975-2002
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Janet Ness
- 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/xv00433
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository