WaSMAR2600_05.xml Guide to the Seattle Engineering Department Director's Records 1984-1994 Seattle Engineering Department Director's Records Seattle Municipal Archives 2022
PO Box 94728 600 Fourth Avenue, Floor 3 Seattle 98124-4728 archives@seattle.gov http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-12-22. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Seattle Municipal Archives Engineering Department Director's Records Seattle (Wash.). Engineering Dept. 2600-05 14 cubic feet 1984-1994 English .

The Engineering Department (SED) maintained the City's streets and bridges, designed and oversaw construction of public works projects, provided traffic and transportation planning, and operated the sewer and solid waste utility. The position of City Surveyor was created in 1873 to survey the City, establish boundaries and street grades, and administer condemnation processes. This position was renamed City Engineer in 1890. In 1931 the Engineering Department absorbed part of the Department of Public Utilities and in 1936 it assumed the responsibilities of the Department of Streets and Sewers and the Traffic Department. In 1997, the water, solid waste, drainage, and wastewater utilities from the Engineering and Water departments were merged with the Engineering Services Division of SED and the Customer Service Call Center and Construction Engineering Sections of City Light to form Seattle Public Utilities. The traffic and transportation functions of the Engineering Department were consolidated in the Seattle Transportation Department.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, budget materials, and notes related to administration of the Seattle Engineering Department. The records document SED projects and activities and its relationship with other City agencies. These records cover the period after SED stopped use of a central filing system.

Records are open to the public.

[Item and date], Director's Records, Record Series 2600-05 Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.

 Seattle (Wash.). Engineering Dept. Seattle (Wash.) Civil engineering--Washington (State)--Seattle Public works--Washington (State)--Seattle Traffic engineering--Washington (State)--Seattle Midway Landfill (Kent, Wash.) Refuse and refuse disposal--Washington (State)--Seattle Public Utilities--Washington (State)--Seattle Drainage--Washington (State)--Seattle Transportation--Planning--Washington (State)--Seattle Agreements 1984-1987 1 1 Bikeways 1985-1986 1 2 Budget-Cumulative Reserve fund 1985 1 3 Budget-Transportation Capital Improvement Project (CIP) 1986 1 4 Budget-Overruns 1986 1 5 Board of Public Works- General 1984-1988 1 6 Bridges 1984-1985 1 7 Correspondence 1985 1 8 Construction- Downtown Coordination 1985-1986 English. 1 9 Budget- General 1985-1986 1 10 Drainage 1984-1987 1 11 Dust Control 1982-1983 1 12 Engineering Department- General 1986 1 13 Gary Zarker Miscellaneous 1986-1988 1 14 Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) 1984-1985 1 15 Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) 1984-1985 2 1 1988 Budget 1987 2 2 Chron File 1987 2 3 City Personnel 1987 2 4 Pike Place Market- Parking Management 1987 2 5 Resource Recovery 1987 2 6 Solid Waste Collection Contract 1987 2 7 Solid Waste- Hazardous Waste 1987 2 8 State Superfund 1987 2 9 West Seattle Freeway Phase Two Cost Estimate 1987 2 10 Audit- Anderson Bjornstad Kane Jacobs, Incorporated 1987-1988 3 1 Drainage Utilities 1987 3 2 Budget 1988-1989 3 3 Budget and Capital Improvement Program (CIP) 1987-1988 3 4 Budget and Capital Improvement Program (CIP) 1987-1988 3 5 Budget and Capital Improvement Program (CIP) 1988 3 6 Department Work Program 1989 3 7 Director For A Day Suggestions 1986-1987 3 8 Disney Proposal / Seattle Center 1988 3 9 Drainage Rates 1987-1989 3 10 Drainage and Wastewater Utility (DWU) 1988 3 11 Downtown Project Review Panel 1985-1989 3 12 Engineering Disaster Plan 1986-1989 4 1 Harborfront 1987-1988 4 2 Harborfront 1987-1988 4 3 Landfill Closure- Midway 1986-1987 4 4 Landfill Closure- Midway 1986-1987 4 5 King County / Solid Waste Rates 1989 4 6 King County Solid Waste Rates Increases 1989 4 7 Kent Highland Landfill Closure 1987 4 8 Midway Landfill Cover 1989 5 1 Midway Landfill 1989 5 2 Project Cost Evaluation Metrology (PCEM) 1989 5 3 Metro Renton Effluent Transfer System (RETS) Agreement 1986-1988 5 4 Metro Renton Effluent Transfer System (RETS) Agreement 1986-1988 5 5 Midway- Gas Reports 1986-1987 5 6 Midway- Gas Reports 1986-1987 5 7 Resource Recovery 1986-1987 5 8 Resource Recovery 1986-1987 5 9 Solid Waste Comprehensive Management Plan 1986 5 10 City Light 1988-1990 6 1 City- Purchasing 1987-1988 6 2 Executive Work Program / Policy Planning Agenda 1986-1989 6 3 Executive Work Program 1987-1988 6 4 Fire Department 1987-1990 6 5 Human Rights Department 1987-1988 6 6 Human Resources 1988-1990 6 7 Privatization 1987-1988 6 8 Transportation- Capital Improvement Project 1987-1988 6 9 City- office of Management and Budget 1988 6 10 Keep It Clean, Seattle 1988 6 11 Management Retreats 1988 6 12 Office of Management and Budget- Organization Chart 1988 6 13 Personnel Department 1988 6 14 Responsibilities as Director 1989 6 15 Seattle Engineering Department (SED) Budget / Council Review 1988 6 16 Solid Waste- Disposal Options 1988 6 17 Budget Process 1988 7 1 Budget- Computer Animated Drafting (CAD) 1989 7 2 Budget- Drainage and Wastewater Utilities (DWU) 1989 7 3 Budget- Engineering 1989 7 4 Budget- Management Support 1989 7 5 Budget- Miscellaneous 1989 7 6 Budget- Operations 1989 7 7 Budget- Solid Waste 1989 7 8 Budget- Transportation 1989 7 9 City- Office of Management and Budget 1989 7 10 City- Office of Management and Budget 1989 7 11 City Parks Department 1989 7 12 Office of Neighborhood 1989-1990 8 1 Real Property 1989-1990 8 2 Recycling Potential 1989-1990 8 3 Renton Effluent Transfer System (RETS) 1989 8 4 Resolutions 1989-1990 8 5 Right of Way 1988-1990 8 6 Sewers 1989-1990 8 7 Sidewalk Repair 1989-1990 8 8 Side Sewer 1989-1990 8 9 Solid Waste Rates 1989-1990 8 10 Solid Waste Utilities 1989 8 11 Board of Public Works 1989 9 1 City Council 1989 9 2 City Council 1989 9 3 City Council 1990 9 4 City Council 1990 9 5 City Council 1990 9 6 City Engineering 1990 9 7 City Engineering 1989 9 8 City Engineering 1989 10 1 City Personnel 1989-1990 10 2 City Purchasing 1898-1990 10 3 City Treasurer 1989-1990 10 4 City Water 1989-1990 10 5 Construction and Land Use 1989-1990 10 6 Community Development 1989-1990 10 7 Comptroller 1989-1990 10 8 Downtown Construction Coordination 1898-1989 English. 10 9 Downtown Transit 1989-1990 10 10 Drainage 1989-1990 10 11 Drainage 1989 11 1 Drainage and Wastewater 1989 11 2 Drainage and Wastewater 1989 11 3 Easements 1989 11 4 Environment Allowance Program 1989-1990 11 5 First Avenue South Bridge 1990 11 6 Human Rights Department 1989-1990 11 7 Hazardous Waste 1989-1990 11 8 Intergovernmental Relations 1898-1990 11 9 Kent Highlands 1989-1990 11 10 King County 1989-1990 11 11 Land Use Policies and Zoning Codes 1990 12 1 Land Use Policies and Zoning Codes 1989 12 2 Land Use Policies and Zoning Codes 1989 12 3 Land Use Policies and Zoning Codes 1989 12 4 Legislation 1989-1990 12 5 Local Improvement District Miscellaneous (LID) 1989-1990 12 6 Maintenance 1989 12 7 Maintenance 1989-1990 12 8 Mayor's Correspondence 1989 13 1 Mayor's Correspondence 1989 13 2 Mayor's Correspondence 1989 13 3 Mayor's Correspondence 1989 13 4 Mayor's Correspondence 1989 13 5 Mayor's Signature 1989 13 6 Mayor's Signature 1989 14 1 Mayor's Signature 1989 14 2 Midway Landfill 1989-1990 14 3 Municipality of Metro 1989-1990 14 4 Permits- Miscellaneous 1989 14 5 Permits, Master Use 1990 14 6 Permits Bonds 1989-1990 14 6 Permits, Master Use 1989 14 7 Mayor's Action 1990 15 1 Mayor's Action 1990 15 2 Mayor's Correspondence 1990 15 3 Permits- Miscellaneous 1990 15 4 Pike Place Market 1989-1990 15 5 Piper's Creek 1989-1990 15 6 Questionnaire 1989-1990 15 7 Railroads, Miscellaneous 1989-1990 15 8 State Department of Ecology 1989-1990 15 9 State Transportation 1989 15 10 State Transportation 1990 15 11 State Transportation 1989 16 1 Street Use 1989-1990 16 2 Street Use 1989-1990 16 3 Solid Waste Utility 1989 16 4 Solid Waste Utility 1989 16 5 Solid Waste Utility 1989 16 6 Solid Waste Utility 1990 16 7 Solid Waste Utility 1990 16 8 Solid Waste Utility 1990 17 1 Traffic Parking 1989-1990 17 2 Traffic Control 1989 17 3 Traffic Control 1989 17 4 Traffic Control 1990 17 5 Traffic Control 1990 17 6 Transit Rail 1989-1990 17 7 Transportation Planning 1989-1990 17 8 City transportation Planning 1988 18 1 Citizens Alternative Proposal 1988-1990 18 2 Citizens for Improved Transportation 1989 18 3 King County Transportation Financing Project 1988 18 4 Regional Transportation Financing 1988 18 5 Transportation Capital Improvement Project (TCIP) 1989-1990 18 6 Westlake Transportation Capital Improvement Project (TCIP) 1988-1989 18 7 SR-520 (State Route) 1988 19 1 Solid Waste Rates 1988 19 2 Trees 1989-1990 19 3 Transportation Capital Improvement Project (TCIP) 1989-1990 19 4 Transportation Capital Improvement Project (TCIP) 1989-1990 19 5 United States Departments 1989-1990 19 6 University Street Local Improvement District 1989-1990 19 7 Affirmative Action Work Plan 1989-1991 19 8 Affirmative Action Work Plan 1989-1991 19 9 Affirmative Action Work Plan 1989-1991 20 1 Affirmative Action Work Plan 1989-1991 20 2 Beverley Hundley 1990 20 3 Bruce Wasell / Herb Johnson 1991 20 4 Diana Gale 1987-1991 20 5 Joe Ralph 1991 20 6 John Okamoto 1991 20 7 Tom Tierney 1991 20 8 Retreat 1990 20 9 Snow and Ice 1990-1991 20 10 Transportation Financing 1990 20 11 Transportation Financing 1990 20 12 Transportation Financing Options Analysis 1991 20 13 Budget 1992 21 1 Budget 1992 21 2 Combined Charities 1993 21 3 Engineering Operating Fund Council Staff Review 1991 21 4 Engineering Operating Fund Council Staff Review 1991 21 5 Metro Council 1992 21 6 Transportation Analysis Group 1990-1992 21 7 Transportation Advisory Citizen's Team (TACT) 1992 21 8 University of Washington Street Vacations 1993 21 9 University of Washington Southwest Campus master Plan 1992-1993 22 1 University of Washington Street Vacation Petition 1993 22 2 State Transportation Financing 1988 22 3 Washington State Department of Transportation 1993 22 4 Washington State Department of Transportation 1993 22 5 Agreement Recycling Education Collection Program / Seattle Solid Waste Utility and Seattle Public School District 1993 23 1 Barbara Taber files Contracting Service Administrator 1993 23 2 Burlington Northern Railroad 1993 23 3 1994 Budget 1993 23 4 Central Area Act Plan 1993 23 5 City Council Letters 1993 23 6 January-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 7 March-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 8 April-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 9 May-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 10 June-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 11 July-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 12 August-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 13 September-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 14 October-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 15 November-City Council Transmittal 1993 23 16 December-City Council Transmittal 1993 24 1 Combined Charities Rules 1993 24 2 Consultant Contacts 1993 24 3 Customer Services / Solid Waste Utilities 1993 24 4 Department of Administration Services Blanket Contracts (DAS) 1993 24 5 Department of Administration Services (DAS) Letters 1993-1994 24 6 Department EEO Reports 1993 24 7 Disaster Preparedness Pamphlet 1993 24 8 Division Letters 1993 24 9 Draft Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade-Environmental Education Assessment 1993 24 10 Education Initiative 1993 24 11 Executive Management Letters 1993 24 12 Federal Courthouse-EIS Scoping 1993 24 13 Finance Department Letters 1993 24 14 Gary Zarker Letters to Councilmembers 1993 24 15 Gary Zarker Letters to Mayor 1993-1994 24 16 Green Streets 1993 24 17 John Gilmore Letters 1993 24 18 Kingdome 1993 24 19 King County Public Works Officials 1993 24 20 King Cushman Letter 1993 24 21 Letters from Pierce County 1993 24 22 Letters from State Officials 1993 24 23 Local Improvement Assessments 1993 24 24 Louis Haff Contract Resurfacing 1994-1995 24 25 Mayor's Correspondence 1992-1993 24 26 Mayor's Response Letters 1993 24 27 Mayor's Walking Tour 1993 24 28 Metro Letters 1993 24 29 Multi-modal Transit Project 1993-1994 24 30 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 1993 24 31 Personnel 1993 24 32 Policies 1992-1993 24 33 June-Department Response Letters 1993 25 1 July-Department Response Letters 1993 25 2 August-Department Response Letters 1993 25 3 September-Department Response Letters 1993 25 4 October-Department Response letters 1993 25 5 November-Department Response Letters 1993 25 6 December-Department Response Letters 1993 25 7 Puget Sound Regional Council 1993 26 1 Seattle Human Rights (Private Contract Shoring Analysis) 1993 26 2 SFMS Assessment Study 1993 26 3 South Downtown Transportation 1993 26 4 Suggestion Awards File 1993 26 5 Susan Brennan-Regional Transit Program 1993 26 6 Street Use Letters 1993 26 7 Transportation Improvement Program 1993 26 8 Transportation Improvement Board / Mike Morris lent 1993 26 9 Union (Local Contract) 1993 26 10 University of Washington Southwest Campus Plan 1993 26 11 United States Department of Transportation 1993 26 12 January-Department Response Letters 1993-1994 26 13 Department Response Letters 1993-1994 26 14 March-Department Response Letters 1993-1994 26 15 April-Department Response Letters 1993-1994 26 16 May-Department Response Letters 1993 26 17 Board of Public Works (BPW) 1988/Budget 1989 1988-1989 27 1 705 Charles Street 1989 27 2 City Classification Project 1987-1988 27 3 Classification Project 1988 27 4 Classification Project 1985-1988 27 5 Comprehensive Financial Plan 1986 27 6 Debt Capacity 1985 27 7 Disaster Plan / Planning 1988-1989 28 1 Fauntleroy Order 1986-1988 28 2 General Fund Long Range Plan 1985-1989 28 3 Harbor Island 1988 28 4 Infrastructure Management and Planning Systems (IMPS) 1985-1986 28 5 Interstate 90 Access 1988 28 6 Joint Automated Mapping Project (JAMP) 1988-1989 28 7 Management Study Miscellaneous 1986 28 8 Neighborhood Budget Process 1989 28 9 Office of Neighborhoods 1988 28 10 Public Relations 1988 28 11 Safety 1987 28 12 Seattle Engineering Department (SED) Management Review 1986 28 13 Solid Waste-Community Relations 1987 29 1 State Legislature 1987-1988 29 2 State Road Jurisdiction Study 1986-1987 29 3 United Way / Combined Charities 1987-1989 29 4 Abandoned Landfills 1984-1986 29 5 Boulevard Traffic Control 1990 29 6 Broad Street Troughway 1989 29 7 Burke-Gilman Trail 1988-1989 English. 29 8 Customer Services 1989 29 9 Distant Landfill 1989 29 10 Downtown Project 1990 29 11 Downtown Project Review Panel 1991 29 12 Drainage Comprehensive Plan 1987 30 1 Financial Condition 1990 30 2 Growth Management 1990 30 3 High Capacity Transit 1991-1992 30 4 Mercer Corridor-Zacker Working Files 1984-1990 30 5 Plan Review 1989 30 6 Planning Subcabinet 1992 30 7 Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC)/Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) 1992 30 8 Solid Waste-Recycling 1986-1987 30 9 Solid Waste-Long Haul Negotiations 1990 30 10 Solid Waste Rates 1991 30 11 Transportation Capital Improvement Project-South Lake Union 1987-1988 30 12 Women's Minority Business Enterprise 1990 30 13 1989 Executive Work Program (EWD) 1988 31 1 Gary Zarker-For Comment 1990 31 2 Information System Plan 1987 31 3 Jack Palmer 1988-1990 31 4 Management Work Plan 1987 31 5 Metro / Secondary Treatment 1989-1990 31 6 Metro-Eight Northwest Median 1990 31 7 Northgate Transportation Plan 1989 31 8 Rail Planning 1989-1990 31 9 Seattle Commons 1992 31 10 Seattle Engineering Department (SED) Reorganization 1992 31 11 Seattle Engineering Department (SED) Work Program 1991 32 1 Seattle Engineering Department (SED) Work Program 1990-1991 32 2 Seattle Engineering Department (SED) Work Program 1991 32 3 Street Utility 1992 32 4 Street Utility 1992 32 5 Transition 1989 32 6 Transportation Coordination 1988-1990 32 7 University District Transportation 1988 32 8 Vehicle Registration Fee (VRF) 1990 32 9 Weekly Reports 1992-1993 32 10 City Council 1990 33 1 City Council 1990 33 2 City Council 1991 33 3 City Council 1991 33 4 Parks Department 1992 33 5 Pedestrian Walkways 1992 33 6 Permits, Miscellaneous 1992 33 7 Personnel Department 1992 33 8 Pike Place 1992 33 9 Planning Department 1992 34 1 Plats 1992 34 2 Police Department 1992 34 3 Pollution 1992 34 4 Port of Seattle 1992 34 5 Rail Roads 1992 34 6 Recycling 1992 34 7 Residential Parking 1992 34 8 Right-of-Way 1992 34 9 Sanitary Sewers 1992 34 10 Seattle Center 1992 34 11 Seattle City Council 1992 34 12 Seattle Water Department 1992 34 13 Side Walks 1992 34 14 Slides / Retaining Walks 1992 34 15 Solid Waste Utility (SWU) 1992 34 16 State Department, Miscellaneous 1992 34 17 State House of Representatives 1992 34 18 State Transportation Department 1992-1993 34 19 State Transportation Department 1992-1993 34 20 Storm Drain 1992 34 21 Street Management and Use 1992 34 22 Street Vacation and Maintenance 1992 34 23 Traffic Control 1992-1993 35 1 Traffic Parking and Permits 1992 35 2 Traffic and Transportation Studies 1992 35 3 Transit Rail 1992 35 4 Transportation Improvement Board 1992 35 5 Transportation and Planning 1991-1993 35 6 Trees 1992-1993 35 7 University of Washington 1992 35 8 United States Department of Transportation 1992 35 9 Water Department 1992 35 10 West Seattle Freeway Bridge 1992 35 11