Scope and Contents

Correspondence includes mainly internal communications within the mayor’s office as well as other City departments. Topics correspond to the major events of McGinn’s tenure, with gun safety being prominently represented with the “Gun Free Zone” and the gun buy back program well represented.

Scope and Contents note Correspondence, memoranda, studies, staff reports, and newspaper clippings related primarily to public safety and public utilities issues. Major topics include zoning for adult cabarets, drug traffic loitering, fireworks, weed and seed, gun control, police/community relations, internal investigations, specific complaints against the police from the public, electricity rates, Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities management, environmental policies and conservation, water quality,...