Records relating to the Department's concerns over University of Washington expansion.

Records related to transportation and parking issues in Seattle's University District.

Correspondence, grant applications, project descriptions, and audit information related to the city-wide beautification program. The program goal was to carefully design and construct public facilities and structures--from freeways to lamp posts--with an eye toward creating an aesthetically pleasing environment. Funds supplemented several programs such as Model City, Street Tree Planting, Green Triangle Development, and Forward Thrust, among others.

Committee agendas, draft legislation, and recorded votes of the Urban Development and Housing Committee, chaired by Hildt.

Meeting packets from the Seattle Urban Forestry Commission.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and financial data relating to the City's Capital Improvement Program and its relation to the urban renewal process.

Generally small scale projects designed to demonstrate the improvements possible through neighborhood improvement projects. Includes correspondence, studies, maps, and project monitoring records.

Documents pertaining to the development and activities of the Urban Sustainability Advisory Panel (USAP).

Agendas of the Utilities and Environmental Management Committee during Noland's tenure as committee chair. Agendas are annotated with committee votes, audio tape information, and some marginal notes.

Agendas, correspondence, staff reports, and draft legislation related to the issues and work of the Utilities and Environmental Management Committee.

Correspondence, memoranda, draft legislation, staff reports, and notes related to public utilities, telecommunications, cable franchising, and the Seattle Channel during Compton's tenure as committee chair.

The monthly venereal disease reports include a narrative report, statistical summary of cases reported, police arrests and quarantines, army and navy treatments, and information regarding health clinics treatments.

Collection of articles, brochures and pamphlets, biographical information, research papers, ephemera, and other materials kept for their informational value and cataloged individually.

Videotapes collected by Councilmember Jane Noland's office.Topic related primarily to utilities and public safety issues.

Videotapes of Engineering Department projects and events, and training films. Includes tape transfers made of historical film footage taken from as early as the 1910s.

Files of the director of the Department of Community Development's Housing Division.

Official voters' pamphlets for primary, general, and special elections that include contests in which Seattle residents cast votes. Includes statements by candidates, text of measures, and statements of support and opposition. Spanish and Chinese editions exist for many years; in later years, Korean and Vietnamese editions were added. Pamphlets for 1980-1982 are missing.

Register of warrants issued by the Civilian Protection Division of the Commission. Includes date, authorizing ordinance, voucher number, payee, and warrant amount.

Correspondence, memoranda, plans, reports, meeting minutes, agendas, and other material relating to the development of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center (WSCTC).

Records maintained by Richards as committee chair. Includes committee calendars, agendas, staff briefings, memoranda, and committee votes and recommendations relating to water and waste management issues.

Agendas of the Water and Waste Management Committee.

Reports for the Department of Lighting and Water are included in this series until 1910. Early reports include statistics on pumping stations and reservoirs. Beginning in 1922, reports include maps, photographs, and an index to exhibits. From 1930 to 1959 reports are published every year. Beginning in 1972, statistical information is published separately.

First ledger of City water system following the purchase of Spring Hill Water Company and creation of water fund. Includes tap number, street, house number, occupancy type, owner, payer, property and characteristics of property, monthly rate, and payments by month. This is essentially a register of taps, similar to Record Series 8202-01. Ledger cover reads "Water Ledger of the Spring Hill Water Company for 18 ."

Correspondence, reports, draft legislation, notes, and committee agendas relating to Seattle's water and solid waste utilities, and public health issues in the City and King County.

Estimates of costs for replacing pipe, construction of reservoirs, system repairs, and building aqueducts. Includes calculations, specifications, and drawings.

Proceedings from an advisory board looking at redesign of Seattle's central waterfront.

Records from Weeks's office during his time on Seattle City Council.

Photographs collected from the Wesley Uhlman Departmental Correspondence and other series. Included are photos of Mayor Uhlman's trip to Israel in 1971 among other images of Seattle in the 1960s.

Correspondence and reports on the West Seattle Freeway. Material covers condemnations, landscaping, construction and roadway maintenance. Arranged alphabetically by type.

Correspondence, reports, agreements and contracts, charters, and fiscal and legal records related to the Westlake Development Authority, a public corporation created to plan and develop the Westlake Project in downtown Seattle. The WDA was chartered in December 1977 to develop a mixed-use urban center on a site that had long been considered for redevelopment as a park or public center. Mayor Charles Royer dissolved the WDA in July 1986.

Records relating to plans for an open space park in the Westlake Triangle.

Correspondence of Will H. Parry, City Comptroller, relating to city investments, bonds, general finances, and purchasing.

Speeches, prepared statements, and articles prepared for community meetings, hearings, conferences, and publications. Subjects include regional transportation planning, aging, women's rights, access to government, community development, and human resources planning, among other.

Committee agendas, draft legislation, staff reports, and other background material and supporting documents relating to issues involving Seattle and other governmental jurisdictions.

Committee agendas, records of votes, staff reports, and draft legislation relating to parks, playfields, and other public recreational areas.

Committee agendas, draft legislation, staff notes, record of votes, and background material relating to traffic and transportation issues in Seattle.

Committee agendas, correspondence, staff reports, notes, and draft legislation relating to issues before the Human Resource and Judiciary Committee. Also known as Human Resources and Operations Committee.

Records documenting Williams' work in Democratic politics, as well as materials from her various City Council campaigns. Series also contains news clippings, correspondence, and ephemera.

Committee agendas, draft legislation, staff reports, and other background materials relating to municipal utilities and city operations.

Records of John P. (Jack) Willison, Director of Seattle's Urban Renewal Program, include project and administrative files for urban renewal projects.

Records relating to the zoo's periodic applications for accreditation by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Records from Woodland Park Zoo staff documenting planning efforts for a national conference.

Records relating to animal care and exhibit management at the Woodland Park Zoo.

Records documenting changes to Woodland Park Zoo's animal collections.

Annual reports of the Woodland Park Zoo and the Seattle Zoological Society.

Monthly reports on the zoo's bird collection.

Records relating to a $31.5 million bond issue for the zoo that was approved by voters in 1985.

Reference manuals created for the use of zoo docents.

Internal newsletters for Woodland Park Zoo staff and volunteers.

Records related to a loan from China of two rare golden monkeys.

Historical records collected by zoo staff.

Records relating to the zoo's planning and improvement efforts in the early 1970s.

Records relating to special events and promotions at Woodland Park Zoo.

Newsletters for docents and other volunteers at the Woodland Park Zoo.

Records relating to the zoo's water conservation efforts.

Correspondence, reports, articles, and other working papers relating to issues and projects studied by OMB. Included are long range land use planning, the project to develop a new city hall plan, the failed waterfront levy of 1989, and the Westlake Mall.

Weekly reports of WPA recreation programs, 1936-1940; include reports on Northern, Central, and Southern Division activities as well as city-wide programs.

Records relating to urban renewal and improvements in the Yesler-Atlantic neighborhood. Includes materials about social services, housing rehabilitation, pedestrian pathways, streets, and parks, commercial development, and religious structures.

Appraisals of property as part of the Yesler-Atlantic Neighborhood Improvement Project.

Correspondence, reports, maps, and newspaper clippings related to the work of the Seattle Zoning Commission in compiling the City's first zoning code.

Correspondence to the Planning Commission requesting amendments to the Zoning Ordinance. Includes ordinance amendment drafts, notices of hearings, and copies of Commission minutes.

Working files for proposed amendments to Seattle's Zoning Ordinance.