Initiatives, 1906-1994
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Seattle (Wash.). City Clerk
- Title
- Initiatives
- Dates
- 1906-1994 (inclusive)19061994
- Quantity
- 2 cubic feet, (5 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 1802-B8
- Repository
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Seattle Municipal Archives
Seattle Municipal Archives
Office of the City Clerk
City of Seattle
PO Box 94728
98124-4728
Seattle, WA
Telephone: 2062337807
Fax: 2063869025
archives@seattle.gov - Access Restrictions
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Records are open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
The City Clerk maintains the City's legislative records, official filings, and the Seattle Municipal Archives; keeps the minutes of City Council meetings; and provides information services to City agencies and the public. Seattle's first City Charter allowed for a Clerk of the Common Council to be elected by the Council. In 1875 the position of City Clerk became elective and remained so until 1896 when the new Charter designated the Comptroller ex-officio City Clerk. The Comptroller served as City Clerk through 1992. A 1991 City Charter amendment transferred the Comptroller's function to the Department of Finance and the City Clerk's Office became a division of the Legislative Department effective in 1993.
Other Descriptive Information
See a full list of ballot initiatives on our website
Content Description
Petitions and reports on sufficiency of petition signatures on initiatives brought by the citizens of Seattle. Included is the 1908 Charter Amendment petition for direct legislation by initiative and referendum. An initiative is the citizens' right to initiate legislation or other measures to be voted on by the people.
Other Descriptive Information
A Comptroller or Clerk File (CF) can consist of correspondence, reports, petitions, contracts, agreements, etc. from elected officials, City departments, other government agencies, or the general public, which have been placed "on file" with the Office of the City Clerk (OCC). They are primarily permanent records, but also include routine material which was periodically purged. Certain archival records identified in the CF have been removed, arranged into records series, and incorporated into the collection of the Seattle Municipal Archives, a program of the OCC.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation
[Item and date], Initiatives, Record Series 1802-B8 Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.
Administrative Information
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Description: Petition for Direct Legislation by System of Initiative and Referendum by Charter AmendmentDates: 1908Container: Box 1, Folder 1
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Description: Petition for a Central ParkDates: 1909Container: Box 1, Folder 2
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Description: Petition for Condemnation of Property for Central ParkDates: 1910Container: Box 1, Folder 3
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Description: Petition for Bond Issue of $650,000 for a Central ParkDates: 1910Container: Box 1, Folder 4
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Description: To Regulate Electrical Wires, Appliances, Apparatus in Public PlacesDates: 1911Container: Box 2, Folder 1
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Description: Direct Legislation Petition, Initiative One, For Nine at Large City CouncilDates: 1910Container: Box 2, Folder 2
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Description: Direct Legislation Petition, Initiative Two, Non - Partisan Primaries and City ElectionsDates: 1910Container: Box 2, Folder 3
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Description: Bonds for Museum of Arts and Sciences SiteDates: 1911Container: Box 2, Folder 4
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Description: Bonds for Museum of Arts and Sciences, Supplemental PetitionDates: 1911Container: Box 2, Folder 5
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Description: Certification of Insufficient Signatures, Bond for Museum of Arts and Science SiteDates: 1911Container: Box 2, Folder 6
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Description: Certification of Sufficiency, Bond for Museum of Arts and SciencesDates: 1911Container: Box 2, Folder 7
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Description: Certificate of Sufficiency, Pike Place Market Extension and BondsDates: 1913Container: Box 2, Folder 8
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Description: Report on Supplement to Initiatives 13, Eight Hour LawDates: 1914Container: Box 2, Folder 9
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Description: Report on Signatures, Jitney / For Hire VehiclesDates: 1920Container: Box 2, Folder 10
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Description: Report on Signatures, Jitney / For Hire VehiclesDates: 1920Container: Box 2, Folder 11
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Description: Corporation Counsel on Submission of Initiative Bill, Relating to JitneysDates: 1920Container: Box 2, Folder 12
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Description: Report on Signatures, Initiative 35, Syndicalism PetitionDates: 1920Container: Box 2, Folder 13
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Description: Operation of Street Railway as Charge against General Fund (Public Ownership League)Dates: 1921Container: Box 2, Folder 14
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Description: Comptroller Check on Initiative Petition to Taxation for Maintenance of Street RailwaysDates: 1921Container: Box 2, Folder 15
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Description: To Regulate Dogs and Cats by Humane SocietyDates: 1922Container: Box 2, Folder 16
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Description: Regulating Keeping of Dogs and Cats in CityDates: 1922Container: Box 2, Folder 17
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Description: Initiative Petition of King County Humane Society. Comprehensive Report on SignaturesDates: 1922Container: Box 2, Folder 18
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Description: Comptroller Check on Initiative Petitions 40, 43, 46, 47Dates: 1922Container: Box 2, Folder 19
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Description: Increase Police and Fire, Civil Service SalariesDates: 1924Container: Box 2, Folder 20
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Description: Comptroller Check, Police and Fire SalariesDates: 1924Container: Box 2, Folder 21
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Description: Firemen and Policemen's Benevolent Association Letter for Salary InitiativesDates: 1924Container: Box 2, Folder 22
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Description: Comptroller Check Initiative Petition C8 98070 City Manager Form of GovernmentDates: 1925Container: Box 2, Folder 23
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Description: Initiative Petition, District Council Petition , Charter AmendmentDates: 1932Container: Box 2, Folder 24
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Description: Initiative Petition, Veterans Preference in Civil Service CommissionDates: 1932Container: Box 2, Folder 25
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Description: Report on Filing of Initiative Petition, Veterans PreferenceDates: 1932Container: Box 2, Folder 26
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Description: Report on Additional Pets, Initiative Petition, District CouncilDates: 1932Container: Box 2, Folder 27
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Description: Supplemental Report on RecountDates: 1932Container: Box 2, Folder 28
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Description: Report on Recount of Names on Initiative Petition, Veterans PreferenceDates: 1932Container: Box 2, Folder 29
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Description: Report on Partial Check of Initiative Petition, Veterans PreferenceDates: 1932Container: Box 2, Folder 30
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Description: Request for Emergency Appropriation to Check Initiative Petition 58Dates: 1932Container: Box 2, Folder 31
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Description: Initiative Petition, Manager Form of GovernmentDates: 1933Container: Box 2, Folder 32
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Description: Petition for Direct Charter Amendment, Police ProtectionDates: 1935Container: Box 2, Folder 33
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Description: Report that Direct Charter Amendment has been filedDates: 1936Container: Box 2, Folder 34
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Description: Eight Hour Day for FiremenDates: 1937Container: Box 2, Folder 35
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Description: Comptroller, Sufficiency of Signatures - Eight Hour Day for FiremenDates: 1937Container: Box 2, Folder 36
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Description: Notice, Initiative Petition Charter Amendment, Sale of WaterDates: 1941Container: Box 2, Folder 37
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Description: Initiative Petition Charter Amendment, Sale of WaterDates: 1941Container: Box 2, Folder 38
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Description: Report, Names on Initiative Petition, Sale of WaterDates: 1941Container: Box 2, Folder 39
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Description: Opinion, Insufficiency of Initiative PetitionDates: 1941Container: Box 2, Folder 40
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Description: Initiative Petition, Salary Rates in the Police and Fire DepartmentsDates: 1941Container: Box 2, Folder 41
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Description: Comptroller Report of Sufficiency of Initiative Petition Signatures, Police and Fire DepartmentsDates: 1941Container: Box 2, Folder 42
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Description: Initiative Petition, Salaries, Police and FireDates: 1943Container: Box 2, Folder 43
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Description: Reports of Signatures, Initiative Petition, Salaries Police and FireDates: 1944Container: Box 2, Folder 44
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Description: Supplemental Report, Initiative Petition, Salaries Police and FireDates: 1944Container: Box 2, Folder 45
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Description: Initiative Petition for Direct Charter Amendment, Water WorksDates: 1944Container: Box 3, Folder 1
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Description: Legal Opinion, Initiative Petition, Water WorksDates: 1944Container: Box 3, Folder 2
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Description: Forty - Eight Hour Week for Fire DepartmentDates: 1946Container: Box 3, Folder 3
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Description: Comptroller, Sufficient Signature, Forty - Eight Hour WeekDates: 1946Container: Box 3, Folder 4
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Description: Use of Money from Sale of WaterDates: 1946Container: Box 3, Folder 5
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Description: Correspondence - George Dana Linn, Initiative Petition Sale of WaterDates: 1946Container: Box 3, Folder 6
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Description: Comptroller Report, Initiative Petition on Use of Water FundDates: 1946Container: Box 3, Folder 7
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Description: Supplemental Report, Initiative Petition on Use of Water FundDates: 1946Container: Box 3, Folder 8
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Description: Regarding Ease of Meat Purchases after Six PMDates: 1956Container: Box 3, Folder 9
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Description: Petition for Civic Center Bond IssueDates: 1956Container: Box 3, Folder 10
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Description: Report on Civic Center Bond Issue Petition, by City ClerkDates: 1956Container: Box 3, Folder 11
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Description: Civic Center Bond Issue, Signature Count on PetitionDates: 1956Container: Box 3, Folder 12
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Description: Petition, Civic Center Committee: Bond Issue on BallotDates: 1956Container: Box 3, Folder 13
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Description: Report on Civic Center Bond Issue of $ 8.5 MillionDates: 1956Container: Box 3, Folder 14
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Description: Final Report on Signatures: Civic Center Bond IssueDates: 1956Container: Box 3, Folder 15
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Description: Citizens for FluoridationDates: 1962Container: Box 3, Folder 16
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Description: Report, Signature Check of Fluoridation PetitionDates: 1962Container: Box 3, Folder 17
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Description: Report, Signature Check of Fluoridation PetitionDates: 1962Container: Box 3, Folder 18
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Description: Petition for Fluoridation of Water SupplyDates: 1962Container: Box 3, Folder 19
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Description: Water Fluoridation Initiative PetitionDates: 1968Container: Box 3, Folder 20
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Description: Report on Water Fluoridation Initiative PetitionDates: 1968Container: Box 3, Folder 21
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Description: Request for Council Resolution Supporting Initiative Thirty-SevenDates: 1970Container: Box 3, Folder 22
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Description: Citizens for Preservation of the Pike Place Public MarketDates: 1971Container: Box 3, Folder 23
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Description: Preservation of Pike Place Market Initiative, Create Pike Place Market Historical DistrictDates: 1971Container: Box 3, Folder 24
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Description: Transmittal of Pike Place Market Preservation InitiativeDates: 1971Container: Box 3, Folder 25
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Description: Protest of Ballot Title for Pike Place Market InitiativeDates: 1971Container: Box 3, Folder 26
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Description: Anti - Golden Gardens AquariumDates: 1971Container: Box 3, Folder 27
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Description: Anti - Golden Gardens AquariumDates: 1971Container: Box 3, Folder 28
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Description: Electric Powered Transit SystemDates: 1972Container: Box 3, Folder 29
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Description: Report of Signatures, Electric Transit SystemDates: 1972Container: Box 3, Folder 30
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Description: Anti - FluoridationDates: 1973Container: Box 3, Folder 31
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Description: Fluoride Availability (Other than Water System)Dates: 1973Container: Box 3, Folder 32
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Description: Anti - BillboardDates: 1973Container: Box 3, Folder 33
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Description: Report on Signatures, Discontinue FluoridationDates: 1973Container: Box 3, Folder 34
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Description: Marijuana DecriminalizationDates: 1973Container: Box 3, Folder 35
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Description: Insufficiency of Signatures, Fluoride Availability at No CostDates: 1973Container: Box 3, Folder 36
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Description: Woodland Park Improvements, Initiative OneDates: 1974Container: Box 3, Folder 37
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Description: Public Right and Access to Arboretum, Initiative TwoDates: 1974Container: Box 3, Folder 38
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Description: Public Right and Access to Arboretum, Initiative TwoDates: 1974Container: Box 3, Folder 39
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Description: Woodland Park Improvements, Initiative OneDates: 1974Container: Box 3, Folder 40
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Description: Sand Point Naval Air Station Multi-Use, Initiative ThreeDates: 1974Container: Box 3, Folder 41
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Description: Report on Sufficientcy of Signatures for Sand Point Naval Air Station Multi-Use, Initiative ThreeDates: 1974Container: Box 3, Folder 42
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Description: Discovery Park / Fort Lawton Golf Course, Initiative FourDates: 1975Container: Box 3, Folder 43
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Description: Returnable Containers, Initiative SevenDates: 1975Container: Box 4, Folder 1
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Description: Report on Insufficient Signatures, Non - Returnable ContainersDates: 1976Container: Box 4, Folder 2
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Description: Report on Signatures, Spay and Neuter ClinicDates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 3
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Description: Officials Resign to Run for Other Office, Initiative EightDates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 4
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Description: Age Qualification for Certain Purposes, Initiative NineDates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 5
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Description: Raising Ross Dam, Initiative 10Dates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 6
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Description: Sexual Orientation Dropped From Fair Employment Practices Ordinance, Initiative 11Dates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 7
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Description: Changing Fair Employment Practices Ordinance, Initiative 12Dates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 8
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Description: Changing Fair Employment Practices Ordinance, Initiative 13Dates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 9
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Description: Eliminate West Seattle from City Boundaries, Initiative 14Dates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 10
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Description: Regulate Police Use of Firearms, Initiative 15Dates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 11
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Description: Low Cost Spay and Neuter Clinic, Initiative 16Dates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 12
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Description: Unnatural Practices, Initiative 17Dates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 13
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Description: Report on Signatures, Initiative 15, Use of Firearms by PoliceDates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 14
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Description: Report on Signatures, Initiative 13, Change Fair Employment PracticesDates: 1978Container: Box 4, Folder 15
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Description: Prohibit Lending City Credit for Tourism, Initiative 18Dates: 1979Container: Box 4, Folder 16
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Description: Prohibit Lending City Credit for Tourism, Initiative 18Dates: 1979Container: Box 4, Folder 17
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Description: Report on Signatures, Initiative 19, Lending Credit By CityDates: 1979Container: Box 4, Folder 18
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Description: Report on Insufficiency of Signatures. Initiative Petition 20Dates: 1980Container: Box 4, Folder 19
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Description: Public Tax Monies Prohibited from Election Campaigns, Initiative 20Dates: 1980Container: Box 4, Folder 20
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Description: Prohibited Additional Lake Washington Bridges, Initiative 21Dates: 1980Container: Box 4, Folder 21
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Description: Report on Sufficiency of Signatures. Initiative Petition 21Dates: 1980Container: Box 4, Folder 22
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Description: Discourage Federal Construction near Magnuson Park, Initiative 22Dates: 1980Container: Box 4, Folder 23
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Description: Initiative 23, Rent ControlsDates: 1980Container: Box 4, Folder 24
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Description: Rent Increase Limitation, Initiative 24Dates: 1980Container: Box 4, Folder 25
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Description: Report on Sufficiency of Signatures. Initiative Petition 24Dates: 1980Container: Box 4, Folder 26
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Description: Prohibiting Parking Meters, Initiative 25Dates: 1981Container: Box 4, Folder 27
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Description: Limit Contributions to Ballot Initiatives, Initiative 26Dates: 1981Container: Box 4, Folder 28
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Description: Jobs with Peace, Initiative 27Dates: 1982Container: Box 5, Folder 1
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Description: Report on Sufficiency of Signatures, Initiative Petition 27Dates: 1982Container: Box 5, Folder 2
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Description: Versus War in Central America, Initiative 28Dates: 1983Container: Box 5, Folder 3
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Description: Pull Tabs in State Licensed Bingo Parlors, Initiative 29Dates: 1984Container: Box 5, Folder 4
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Description: Prohibit Harboring Illegal Aliens, 30Dates: 1986Container: Box 5, Folder 5
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Description: Taxicab CommissionDates: 1987Container: Box 5, Folder 6
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Description: Downtown Land Use, Initiative 31Dates: 1988Container: Box 5, Folder 7
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Description: Anti-New Sports ArenaDates: 1988Container: Box 5, Folder 8
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Description: Sale of Pulltabs, Initiative 33Dates: 1988Container: Box 5, Folder 9
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Description: School District Financing Initiative 34Dates: 1989Container: Box 5, Folder 10
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Description: Sufficiency of Signatures, Initiative 34Dates: 1989Container: Box 5, Folder 11
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Description: Domestic Parternships, Initative 35Dates: 1990Container: Box 5, Folder 12
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Description: Landmark Theatre Support, Initiative 36Dates: 1989Container: Box 5, Folder 13
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Description: Sufficiency of Signatures, Initiative 35Dates: 1990Container: Box 5, Folder 14
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Description: Anti-Multi-Purpose Arena, Initative 37Dates: 1990Container: Box 5, Folder 15
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Description: Anti-Drug Traffice Ordinance, Initiative 38Dates: 1991Container: Box 5, Folder 16
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Description: Elevated Mass Transit System, Initiative 39Dates: 1994Container: Box 5, Folder 17
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Description: Report on Initiative 67 Petitions, Tax on Butter SubstitutesDates: 1932Container: Box 5, Folder 18
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Description: Taxation on Mills, Initiative 64Dates: 1932Container: Box 5, Folder 19
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Description: Report of Comptroller on Check of State Initiative Petition 67Dates: 1932Container: Box 5, Folder 20
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Description: State Income Tax, State Initiative 69Dates: 1932Container: Box 5, Folder 21
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Description: Property Tax, Initiative 59Dates: 1932Container: Box 5, Folder 22
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Description: Petition of Property Owners Association of Washington re Initiative 99 (Gas Tax)Dates: 1936Container: Box 5, Folder 23
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Description: Petition of Property Owners Association of Washington re Initiative 99 (Gas Tax)Dates: 1936Container: Box 5, Folder 24
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Initiatives and Referenda
- Initiatives in local government--Washington (State)--Seattle
Corporate Names
- Seattle (Wash.). City Clerk
Geographical Names
- Seattle (Wash.)
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