Personnel Director's Records, 1968-1996

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Seattle (Wash.). Personnel Dept.
Title
Personnel Director's Records
Dates
1968-1996 (inclusive)
Quantity
10.2 cubic feet
Collection Number
6000-04
Summary
Records from the Personnel Director for the City of Seattle.
Repository
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

Records are open to the public.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Personnel Department was created in 1979. It administers the employee selection system, labor relations and negotiations, benefit programs, and the classification/compensation plan. The Department also manages employee records, implements affirmative action, and coordinates other personnel related programs. The City Charter of 1896 created the Civil Service system and established the Civil Service Commission and Civil Service Department to administer the system. The reorganization in 1979 abolished the Civil Service Department, replacing it with the Personnel Department, and established the Civil Service Commission as a separate City agency. In 1997, the Personnel Department was incorporated as a division within the Executive Services Department. In 2001, a departmental reorganization reestablished Personnel as a separate and independent department. The bulk of records in this record group are from the old Civil Service Department.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Files of the Personnel Director, primarily from the tenures of Susan Pavlou, Everett Rosmith, Dwight Imanaka, and John D. Okamoto. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports and studies, and working papers relating the Affirmative Action, CETA, labor relations, city employee salaries, training programs, classification and compensation, insurance, and other personnel issues.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

[Item and date], Personnel Director's Records, Record Series 6000-04 Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Preservation Note

Refolder Acc. 90-14

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 2 Apprenticeship Program, Women and Minorities 1968-1987
1 3 Black Municipal Employees Association 1968-1987
1 4 CETA PSE Funding Reduction 1968-1987
1 5 CETA Programming Strategies 1981
1 6 CETA Request for proposal 1968-1987
1 7 CETA Closeout 1968-1987
1 8 Exempt Clerical Study 1968-1987
1 9 COLA 1981
1 10 COLA 1980
1 11 Creativity and Innovation Project 1968-1987
1 12 Department Head Memos from Personnel 1981
1 13 Department Head Memos 1981
1 14 Department Head Memos 1980
1 15 Employee Incentive Program 1980
1 16 Hispanic Planning Services, Task Force Report 1968-1987
1 17 Hispanic Planning Services, Task Force Report 1968-1987
1 18 Hispanic City Employees 1968-1987
1 19 Joint Advisory Apprenticeship Program 1968-1987
1 20 King-Snohomish Manpower Consortium CAMP Investigation 1968-1987
1 21 Lay Offs - Procedures 1981
1 22 Salary Schedules 1975
1 23 Salary Schedules 1976
1 24 Salary Schedules 1977
1 25 Salary Schedules 1978
1 26 Salary Schedules 1979
1 27 Salary Schedules 1980
1 28 Salary Schedules 1981
1 29 Salary Schedules 1982
1 30 Salary Schedules 1983
1 31 Salary Schedules 1984
1 32 Affirmative Action Handicapped Program 1968-1987
1 33 Affirmative Action Correspondence 1981
2 1 Affirmative Action Goals, Personnel Department 1980-1981
2 2 Affirmative Action Goals and Selective Certification 1968-1987
2 3 Affirmative Action City Wide Goals 1981
2 4 1979 Affirmative Action City Wide Reports 1980-1981
2 5 1980 Affirmative Action Work Plan (3 folders) 1980-1981
2 6 Affirmative Action Handicapped Hiring 1976-1981
2 7 Affirmative Action Task Force (4 folders) 1979-1982
2 8 Personnel Department, Classification Project 1968-1987
2 9 Insurance Review Committee 1978-1979
2 10 Workers Compensation Reform Bill 1981
2 11 Training Employee Development Plan 1981
2 12 1980 Training Plan 1979
2 13 1981 Training Plan 1980
2 14 1982 Training Program (2 folders) 1981
2 15 Affirmative Action Plan 1979-1980
2 16 Innovative Training 1968-1987
2 17 Equal Employment and Affirmative Action Plan and Policy Statement 1976
2 18 Labor Relations Policy Committee 1980-1982
2 19 Personnel System Implementation - Charter Amendment 5 1978
2 20 1979 Affirmative Action Report 1980
3 1 Affirmative Action Task Force 1978
3 2 Minority Experience in Civil Service Exams 1968-1987
3 3 Personnel Records Audit for the City of Seattle 1980
3 4 Recommended Position Classification and Compensation Plan 1968
3 5 Mayor's Salary Survey 1968-1987
3 6 Census Report 1982
3 7 CETA Correspondence 1984
3 8 CETA Audits 1982-1983
3 9 CETA Legislation 1982
3 10 Chamber of Commerce Labor Relations Task Force 1968-1987
3 11 Chamber of Commerce Salary Study 1968-1987
3 12 Civil Service Reform 1968-1987
3 13 COLA Miscellaneous Information 1968-1987
3 14 COLA Non-represented 1982
3 15 COLA Represented 1982
3 16 COLA Represented 1982
3 17 Deferred Compensation 1968-1987
3 18 Economic Development, Council of Puget Sound Report 1968-1987
3 19 Employee Development and Incentive Task Force 1968-1987
3 20 Hiring Freeze 1968-1987
3 21 Industrial Insurance Task Force 1986-1987
4 1 Industrial Insurance Task Force 1986-1987
4 2 Merit Pay Project 1968-1987
4 3 Pay Equity and Sex Segregated Jobs, Place / Office of Women's Rights 1968-1987
4 4 PIC's Draft Plan 1968-1987
4 5 Public Service Employment Proposal 1968-1987
4 6 Salary Information, Benchmark Survey 1968-1987
4 7 Salary Information, Donworth Saylor Survey 1968-1987
4 8 Speeches, Susan Pavlou 1984-1986
4 9 Strategic Planning, Presentation 1983
4 10 Worker Right to Know 1984-1986
4 11 Affirmative Action Task Force 1984
4 12 Affirmative Action Task Force 1983
4 13 Affirmative Action City Wide Reports 1983
4 14 Affirmative Action Reports 1968-1987
4 15 Affirmative Action Work Plan 1984
4 16 Affirmative Action Work Plan 1982-1983
4 17 Affirmative Action Year End Report 1982
4 18 Public Administration Service Audit 1968-1987
4 19 Personnel / Civil Service Reorganization 1968-1987
4 20 Police Negotiations 1968-1987
4 21 Productivity Task Force 1968-1987
4 22 Speech, Part-time Transit Operators 1968-1987
5 1 Speech, University of Washington Management Class 1980
5 2 Measurement of Department Effectiveness 1968-1987
5 3 Ombudsman's Office 1968-1987
5 4 CETA 1979
5 5 CETA Actual and Projected Costs 1980
5 6 CETA Transition 1968-1987
5 7 CETA Miscellaneous Correspondence 1968-1987
5 8 CETA 1980
5 9 CETA Transition Phase-Out Project 1968-1987
5 10 Labor Relations, Policy Committee 1968-1987
5 11 Status of Labor Negotiations 1968-1987
5 12 Local 17 1968-1987
5 13 Local 77 1968-1987
5 14 Labor Negotiations, Metro Transit 1980
5 15 Local 17, Negotiations 1968-1987
5 16 Local 77, Bargaining 1968-1987
5 17 Merit Pay 1968-1987
5 18 Records, Privacy, Disclosures, etc. 1968-1987
6 1 Labor Relations, Contract Negotiations Washington State Nurses Association 1968-1987
6 2 Labor Relations Correspondence 1984
6 3 Labor Relations Correspondence 1983
6 4 Labor Relations Correspondence 1982
6 5 Labor Relations Memos (Intra-office) 1984
6 6 Labor Relations Memos (Intra-office) 1983
6 7 Labor Relations Memos (Intra-office) 1982
6 8 Labor Relations Grievance, Daniel L. Fievez 1968-1987
6 9 Labor Relations Joint Labor / Management Committee 1968-1987
6 10 Labor Relations Policy Committee 1984
6 11 Labor Relations Policy Committee 1983
6 12 Labor Relations Policy Committee 1982
6 13 Training, Employee Development Plan 1982
6 14 Training, City Wide Training Program 1983
7 1 Affirmative Action Task Force: Personnel Department 1992-1994
7 2 Affirmative Action and Diversity Study Group: Personnel Dept. 1992
7 3 Benefits / Group Term life Insurance: Office of the Comptroller 1989
7 4 Benefits Outlook / Healthcare Fund: Personnel Dept. 1992
7 5 B.I.G. Blacks in Government: Personnel Dept. 1985-1989
7 6 Blacks Employee Council : Personnel Dept. 1985-1986
7 7 Blacks Employee Council: Personnel Dept. 1985-1989
7 8 Broker Selection Committee: Personnel Dept. 1990
7 9 Cabinet Retreat: Personnel Dept. 1992
7 10 Census / Puget Sound Council of Governments: Personnel Dept. 1990
7 11 City Careers Resource Directory: Personnel Dept. 1992
7 12 City Parking Spaces: Personnel Dept, 1991
7 13 City Vehicles / Insurance Identification Cards: Office of Management and Budget 1990
7 14 Classification Appeals Report ( Miriam Moses) Personnel Dept. 1994
7 15 Class Comp Retreat: Personnel Dept. 1995
7 16 Combined Charity Campaign: Personnel Dept. 1994
7 17 Combined Charity Campaign: Personnel Dept. 1994
8 1 Commercial Drivers License / Drug Testing: Personnel Dept. 1992-1994
8 2 Commute Trip Reduction Program: Personnel Dept. 1991-1993
8 3 Computers / Programs: Personnel Dept. 1991
8 4 Cultural Diversity Training Program: Personnel Dept. 1990-1992
8 5 Department Heads Memos: Personnel Dept. 1992-1993
8 6 Department Heads Memos: Personnel Dept. 1992-1993
8 7 Department Heads Memos: Personnel Dept. 1994
8 8 Department Heads Memos: Personnel Dept 1994
8 9 Department Heads Memos : Personnel Dept. 1994
8 10 Acting Department Heads Guidelines: Personnel Dept. 1978-1986
9 1 Department Heads Miscellaneous Info.: Personnel Dept. 1980-1988
9 2 Dependent Care Assistance Program: Personnel Dept. 1989-1990
9 3 Education Summit: Personnel Dept. 1991
9 4 Emergency Management: Personnel Dept. 1992-1995
9 5 Emergency Management: Personnel Dept. 1992-1995
9 6 Employee Information (Em. Newspaper): Personnel Dept. 1982
9 7 Employee Assisted Housing: Personnel Dept. 1990
9 8 Engineering Hiring Process: Personnel Dept. 1990
9 9 Executive Development Program: Personnel Dept. 1981-1982
9 10 Executive Labor Committee: Personnel Dept. 1989
9 11 Flexible Benefits Plan: Personnel Dept. 1987-1989
9 12 Healthcare Costs and Containment Committee: Personnel Dept. 1991
9 13 Healthcare Costs and Containment Committee: Personnel Dept. 1992-1995
9 14 High School Intern Program: Personnel Dept. 1992
9 15 Human Resources Future Plans: Personnel Dept. 1994
9 16 Human Resources Manager Reps Meetings: Personnel Dept. 1995
9 17 Immigration Reform and Control Act: Personnel Dept. 1987
9 18 Incentive Award Program: Personnel Dept. 1988
10 1 Innovation Project Steering Committee: Office of Management and Budget 1994
10 2 Labor Relations Policy Committee: Personnel Dept. 1991-1994
10 3 Meal Reimbursement Policies: Personnel Dept. 1983-1985
10 4 Metro Pass Information: Personnel Dept. 1995
10 5 New Employment Process: Personnel Dept. 1992
10 6 Organization Charts: Personnel Dept. 1989-1994
10 7 Organization Charts: City Dept. 1985-1995
10 8 Personnel Systems: Health Dept./ King County 1985-1991
10 9 Personnel Payroll Systems Policy Committee: Personnel Dept. 1985-1988
10 10 Personnel Payroll Systems Policy Committee: Personnel Dept 1990-1995
10 11 Political Activities / Memorandum to Dept. Heads: Personnel Dept. 1983-1989
10 12 Personnel Payroll Systems Enhancement for Output of City Light E.E.O. Data: Personnel Dept. 1985
11 1 Personnel Payroll Systems / P.P.S. Redevelopment: Personnel Dept. 1991-1992
11 2 Personnel Payroll Systems / P.P.S. Director / Job Announcement: Personnel Dept. 1992
11 3 Pregnancy / Off Duty Disabilities: Personnel Dept. 1986-1987
11 4 Off Duty Disabilities: Personnel Dept. 1986-1987
11 5 Off Duty Disabilities: Personnel Dept. 1986-1987
11 6 Productivity Initiatives: Personnel Dept. 1990-1991
11 7 Public Information Officers: Personnel Dept. 1991
11 8 Public Disclosure Procedure: Personnel Dept. 1981-1988
11 9 Public Employee's Round Table: Personnel Dept. 1987-1990
11 10 Quality of Work Life: Personnel Dept. 1985
11 11 Recycling Program: Personnel Dept. 1990-1992
11 12 Retirement Board Meeting: Personnel Dept. 1985
11 13 Risk Management: Personnel Dept. 1981-1986
11 14 Seattle Financial Management System Security Policies and Procedures: Personnel Dept. 1989
11 15 Sick Leave / Wellness Program: Personnel Dept. 1984
12 1 Special Exam. Analyst / Public Safety Civil Service: Personnel Dept. 1993
12 2 Special Task Force (Personal Analyst Series): Personnel Dept. 1990
12 3 Supported Employment Program: Personnel Dept. 1991-1993
12 4 Seattle Management Association: Personnel Dept. 1990-1994
12 5 Seattle Women in Government (S.W.I.N.G.): Personnel Dept. 1986
12 6 Senior Management Institute (S.M.I.) Summary Reports: Personnel Dept. 1987-1988
12 7 Service Award Program: Personnel Dept. 1991
12 8 Standard Operating Procedure: Personnel Dept. 1990
12 9 Supreme Court Decision / Pretermination Hearing / Cleavland-vs- Loudermill: Personnel Dept. 1985-1987
12 10 Temporary Employees: Personnel Dept. 1989-1993
12 11 1040 Limitations: Personnel Dept. 1980-1982
12 12 35 Hour Work Week Analysis: Personnel Dept. 1981
12 13 Tutoring Projects: Personnel Dept. 1989-1991
12 14 Urban Summit: Personnel Dept. 1990
12 15 Utilization Review (King County Medical) Personnel Dept. 1986-1987
12 16 Vacation Info./ Issues and Determinations: Personnel Dept. 1981-1989
12 17 Vacation Info./ Provisions for Department Heads: Personnel Dept. 1981-1993
12 18 Vacation Info./ Temporary Employees: Personnel Dept. 1981-1984
12 19 Vacation Ordinance: Personnel Dept. 1980-1984
13 1 Vacation Ordinance / Revisions: Personnel Dept. 1980-1984
13 2 Valuing and Managing Diversity Plan: Personnel Dept. 1990-1991
13 3 Video and Display Terminals (V.D.T.) Personnel Dept. 1991-1992
13 4 Washington State-Child and Adult Abuse Info. Law: Personnel Dept. 1990
13 5 Washington State Commercial Drivers License: Personnel Dept. 1989-1990
13 6 Washington State City Policy and Procedures / 1990 Legislative Session: Personnel Dept. 1989
13 7 Washington State Labor Management Committee: Personnel Dept. 1987-1989
13 8 Washington State Labor Management Committee: Personnel Dept. 1987-1989
13 9 Washington State Labor Management Committee: Personnel Dept. 1987-1989
13 10 Washington State Legislature: Executive Dept. Office of Intergovernmental Relations 1989
13 11 Washington State Legislature / Unilateral Implementation: Personnel Dept. 1987
13 12 Washington State Legislature / Labor Legislation: Personnel Dept. 1987
13 13 Washington State Merit Pay Info.: Washington State Personnel Office: 1983
13 14 Women and Minority Business Enterprise: Personnel Dept. 1980-1994
13 15 Work Stoppage Contingency Plan: Personnel Dept. 1982-1987
14 1 Workers Compensation / Automated System: Personnel Dept. 1992
14 2 Work Study / Vacation Accrual: Personnel Dept. 1989
14 3 Wright, William H.-vs.-State of Washington Lawsuit: Personnel Dept. 1994
14 4 Grievances and Procedure / Non Rep Employees: Personnel Dept. 1976-1986
14 5 Grievances / Non Rep Employment Specialist Director of Human Resources: Personnel Dept. 1987
14 6 Grievances / Industrial Insurance Claims Specialist: Personnel Dept. 1991-1992
14 7 Grievances (Funk, Curt)/Personnel Analyst: Personnel Dept. 1991-1992
14 8 Grievances (Funk, Curt)/ Personnel Analyst: Personnel Dept. 1991-1992
14 9 Non-Rep Grievances Kris Kuhn / Administration Support Assistant: Personnel Dept. 1989
14 10 Classification Analyst Grievances: Personnel Dept. 1980-1992
15 1 Budget Projected Balance: Personnel Dept. 1994-1996
15 2 Human Resources Future Plans ( Budget Development): Personnel Dept. 1992-1994
15 3 Human Resources Future Customer Dialogue1995/ Reports and Meetings with Department Heads: Personnel Dept. 1995
15 4 Classification / Compensation, Reinvention: Personnel Dept. 1996
15 5 Mayor's Affirmative Action Task Force Committee 1995: Personnel Dept. 1995-1996
15 6 Labor Relations Policy Committee Meetings: Personnel Dept. 1995
15 7 Labor Relations Policy Committee Meetings: Personnel Dept. 1993-1995
15 8 Labor Relations Policy Committee Meetings: Personnel Dept. 1994-1996
15 9 Labor Relations Policy Committee Meetings: Personnel Dept. 1994-1996
15 10 Temporary Employees: Personnel Dept. 1994-1996
16 1 Mayor's Office Weekly Meetings: Personnel Dept. 1995-1996
16 2 Mayor's Office Weekly Meetings: Personnel Dept. 1995-1996
16 3 Affirmative Action Task Force Background: Personnel Dept. 1994-1995
16 4 Seattle Management Association: Personnel Dept. 1996
16 5 Background on Revision of Policy: Personnel Dept. 1996
16 6 Law Department: Personnel Dept. 1995-1996
16 7 Law Department Meetings: Personnel Dept. 1995-1996
16 8 City Council / Slint #58,Statements of Legislative Intent. Personnel Dept. 1992
16 9 City Council Work Program: Personnel Dept. 1994-1995
16 10 Finance Dept./ Executive Search, Finance Director: Personnel Dept. 1992
17 1 Finance Dept. Reorganization: Finance Dept. 1991-1992
17 2 Finance Dept. Reorganization: Finance Dept. 1991-1992
17 3 Financial Management Working Group: Finance Department 1991
17 4 Law Department / John Scannell-vs-City of Seattle / Motion to Amend Complaint: Law Dept. 1986
17 5 Jeffrey Schuster Correspondence Request Disclosure: Law Dept. 1989
17 6 Judy deMello, Police Dept.: Law Dept. Legal Actions 1988
17 7 Law Dept. Legal Actions / Judy deMello-Police Dept. 1985-1988
17 8 Law Dept. Legal Actions / Judy deMello-Police Dept. 1985-1988
17 9 Mayor's Office / Executive Work Program: Personnel Dept. 1993
17 10 Mayor's Office / Executive Work Program: Personnel Dept. 1990
17 11 Mayor's Office / Executive Work Program: Personnel Dept. 1987
18 1 Mayor's Office / Executive Work Program: Personnel Dept. 1989
18 2 Mayor's Office / Executive Work Program: Personnel Dept. 1989
18 3 Mayor's Office Correspondence / Office of the Mayor 1989-1990
18 4 Mayor's Office Correspondence / Office of the Mayor 1989-1990
18 5 Mayor's Office Correspondence / Office of the Mayor 1989-1990
18 6 Mayor's Office Correspondence / Office of the Mayor 1989-1990

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Affirmative action programs--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Civil service--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Labor Unions--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Merit pay--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Minorities--Employment--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Nurses--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Women--Employment--United States--History--20th century

Corporate Names

  • Affirmative Action Task Force (Seattle, Wash.)
  • Seattle (Wash.). Fire Dept.
  • Seattle (Wash.). Human Rights Dept.
  • Seattle (Wash.). Personnel Dept.
  • Seattle (Wash.). Police Dept.
  • Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Geographical Names

  • Seattle (Wash.)