Tom Weeks Subject Files
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, and notes related primarily to budget and finance issues, and human services. Topics include departmental mergers, gay and lesbian issues, taxicab fares, block grants, education, the Seattle Commons, City financial management, capital financing, and housing issues.
Dates
- Creation: 1989-1996
Creator
- Weeks, Tom (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
Records are open to the public.
Biographical Note
Weeks defeated incumbent Virginia Galle in the 1989 election for City Council and served until 1997. During his tenure he chaired the Housing and Human Services Committee (1990-1991), Finance Committee (1992-1995), and Personnel and Labor Policy Committee (1996-1997). Weeks resigned from Council in 1997 to become human resources director for the Seattle School District.
Extent
15.8 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records from Weeks's office during his time on Seattle City Council.
Subject
- El Centro de la Raza (Organization)
- Seattle Public Library (Organization)
- Seattle (Wash.). City Council (Organization)
- Seattle Women's Commission (Organization)
- Seattle Indian Services Commission (Organization)
- Seattle Center (Seattle, Wash.) (Organization)
- Seattle Human Rights Commission (Organization)
- Seattle Commission for Lesbians and Gays (Organization)
- Weeks, Tom (Person)
Geographic
Topical
- Baseball -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Benaroya Hall (Seattle, Wash.)
- Budget -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Capital investments -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Child care -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Children -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Community Development Block Grant Program (Seattle, Wash.)
- Health care -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Housing -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Infants -- Mortality -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Labor Unions -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Parks for dogs -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Public housing -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Regional planning -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- SAFECO Field (Seattle, Wash.)
- Seattle Commons (Seattle, Wash.)
- Smoking law and legislation -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Taxicabs -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Telecommunication systems -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- United States. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
- Water-supply -- Washington (State) -- Seattle
- Title
- Guide to the Tom Weeks Subject Files 1989-1996
- Date
- 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- EAD Location
- https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv367761
Repository Details
Part of the Seattle Municipal Archives Repository