Jan Drago Office Electronic Correspondence

Series

Identifier: 4624-01

Staff Only

Scope and Contents Note

This series includes general correspondence from Councilmember Jan Drago and her Legislative Assistants Krista Bunch, Katherine Fountain, and Barbara Clemons. It contains internal and external correspondence revolving around the business of the city council, including budget, transportation and land-use issues as well as other topics. A large proportion of the records is constituent correspondence, advocating for or against proposed legislation or addressing specific city issues or concerns.

Dates

Creation: 2001-2009

Creator

Drago, Jan (Person)

Restrictions on Access

Records are open to the public.

Conditions Governing Use note

This material is available for use onsite in the SMA reading room through the electronic records search.

Biographcial Note

Jan Drago served on City Council from 1994 through 2009. In 1996, she became the first Councilmember since Liem Tuai (1972) to serve as Council President during her first full term in office. She served in this role for four years, in two non-consecutive terms. She chaired committees focused on finance and budget, business and labor, and transportation. Drago was educated at Douglass College, Rutgers University, where she studied psychology. Prior to joining City Council, she was a teacher (1973-1978) and a proprietor of a Haagen Dazs ice cream store (1980-1991). Drago unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2009. Throughout most of 2010, she served in an interim capacity on the King County Council in the seat vacated by Dow Constantine, who had been elected as King County Executive.

Extent

964 digital files (680 MB)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This series includes general correspondence from councilmember Jan Drago and her Legislative Assistants Krista Bunch, Katherine Fountain, and Barbara Clemons. It contains internal and external correspondence revolving around the business of the city council.

Arrangement

The folder structure of this subseries is that of the original mailbox as it was preserved by Groupwise exported through Nexic Personal Publisher and Microsoft Outlook . Original subfolder names and order have been maintained reflect divisions by both date and subject.

Related Materials

Additional materials from Councilmember Drago’s tenure found in City websites are searchable online through her website on Archive-IT.

Conservation note

Original header information from Krista Bunch’s e-mail account was lost through export of Groupwise e-mail through Nexic Personal Publisher. Attachments for those e-mails were also lost.

Location of Records

SMA

Processing Information note

According to legacy practice, files were burned on a compact disc from network storage for transfer to archives. Disc images were then captured and files moved to network storage with regular fixity checks. Spider2008 PII Scan and DtSearch were used to screen for sensitive information. DROID was used to identify file formats, extract metadata, and facilitate processing decisions. Files were then logged and transferred using Robocopy to preservation storage.