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Hearings Transcripts, 1922-1980

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Seattle (Wash.). City Clerk
Title
Hearings Transcripts
Dates
1922-1980 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.2 cubic feet
Collection Number
1802-B5
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
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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.

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Content Description

Verbatim transcripts of hearings on issues including limited access highways, department head appointments, ethics and fair campaign practices, urban renewal, allegations of graft in government, and public utility regulation. Especially interesting are the 1924 hearings by the City Council's Departmental Efficiency Committee investigating corruption in the Seattle Police Department. Also includes petitions and notices related to the hearings.

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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.

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Administrative Information

Custodial History

On 6/7/1990 three cubic feet of records were transferred from the Office of the City Clerk to the Puget Sound Branch-Washington State Archives (90-06-0780). Records were returned to the Seattle Municipal Archives on 4/9/2004 (ra04-07).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: CF 225135 Investigation of Plumbing Division and Administration (1 of 4)
    Dates: 1954
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: CF 225135 Investigation of Plumbing Division and Administration (2 of 4)
    Dates: 1954
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: CF 225135 Investigation of Plumbing Division and Administration (3 of 4)
    Dates: 1954
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: CF 225135 Investigation of Plumbing Division and Administration (4 of 4)
    Dates: 1954
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: CF 232853 Punchboard Tax Thefts
    Dates: 1957
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: CF 241919 Limited Access Highway Facility
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: CF 243673 Meeting of Council and Mayor with WA State Highway Commission
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: CF 244517 State Highway Commission re: RH Thomson Freeway
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Limited Access Highway, Roanoke and Montlake Interchanges
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and Police Investigations ( 1 of 7)
    Dates: 1924
    Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and Police Investigations ( 2 of 7)
    Dates: 1924
    Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and Police Investigations ( 3 of 7)
    Dates: 1924
    Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and Police Investigations ( 4 of 7)
    Dates: 1924
    Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  • Description: CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and Police Investigations ( 5 of 7)
    Dates: 1924
    Container: Box 1, Folder 14
  • Description: CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and Police Investigations ( 6 of 7)
    Dates: 1924
    Container: Box 1, Folder 15
  • Description: CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and Police Investigations ( 7 of 7)
    Dates: 1924
    Container: Box 1, Folder 16
  • Description: CF 132489 DEC: Salvaging Saleable Waste from City Garbage Dumps
    Dates: 1931
    Container: Box 1, Folder 17
  • Description: CF 180966 Council: Paving of 30th West, Protest
    Dates: 1944
    Container: Box 1, Folder 18
  • Description: CF 163502 Council: Appointments to Street Railway Commission
    Dates: 1939
    Container: Box 1, Folder 19
  • Description: CF 195218 DEC: Merits of Cast Iron Pipe
    Dates: 1947
    Container: Box 1, Folder 20
  • Description: CF 146477 DEC: Appt of Water Superintendent ( Alvin Lewis)
    Dates: 1932
    Container: Box 1, Folder 21
  • Description: CF 170433 DEC: Appointment of Police Chief (William Sears) 1 of 2
    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 1, Folder 22
  • Description: CF 170433 DEC: Appointment of Police Chief (William Sears) 2 of 2
    Dates: 1941
    Container: Box 1, Folder 23
  • Description: CF 148092 Patrol Report from Police Signal Stations
    Dates: 1935
    Container: Box 1, Folder 24
  • Description: CF 148092 Council: Vice, Gambling, Graft in City Administration
    Dates: 1935
    Container: Box 2, Folder 1
  • Description: CF 148090 Council: Exhibits about Vice Investigation
    Dates: 1935
    Container: Box 2, Folder 2
  • Description: CF 148091 Council: Exhibits about Vice Investigation
    Dates: 1935
    Container: Box 2, Folder 3
  • Description: CF 147559 Council: Exhibits about Vice Investigation
    Dates: 1935
    Container: Box 2, Folder 4
  • Description: CF 274532 Limited Access Hearing, West Seattle Freeway
    Dates: 1972
    Container: Box 2, Folder 5
  • Description: CF 272803 West Seattle Freeway, 36th Ave SW to Interstate 5
    Dates: 1972
    Container: Box 2, Folder 6
  • Description: Location and Design Hearing, West Seattle Freeway
    Dates: 1972
    Container: Box 2, Folder 7
  • Description: CF 254318 Thomson Freeway, E. Aloha to E. Calhoun
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 2, Folder 8
  • Description: CF 254317 Thomson Freeway, E. Aloha to E. Calhoun (1 of 2)
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 2, Folder 9
  • Description: CF 254317 Thomson Freeway, E. Aloha to E. Calhoun (2 of 2)
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 2, Folder 10
  • Description: CF 284631 Thomson Freeway, Limited Access Hearing
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 2, Folder 11
  • Description: CF 284632 Thomson Freeway, Limited Access Hearing
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 2, Folder 12
  • Description: CF 284630 Empire Expressway Routes
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box 2, Folder 13
  • Description: CF 284634 Thomson Freeway
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 2, Folder 14
  • Description: CF 100241 Campaign Limitations Ordinance
    Dates: 1976
    Container: Box 2, Folder 15
  • Description: CF 276924 Northeast Pacific Street Relocation
    Dates: 1973
    Container: Box 2, Folder 16
  • Description: CF 270553 Rainier Ave S. Pedestrian Overpass - S. Mt. Baker Blvd.
    Dates: 1971
    Container: Box 2, Folder 17
  • Description: CF 284503 Central Business District Exclusive Bus Lanes
    Dates: 1976
    Container: Box 2, Folder 18
  • Description: CF 279704 Board of Ethics: Council Conflict of Interest
    Dates: 1974
    Container: Box 2, Folder 19
  • Description: CF 282413 FCPC: Complaint v. Liem Tuai
    Dates: 1975
    Container: Box 2, Folder 20
  • Description: CF 265484 Seattle Center Parking Plan Revised
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box 3, Folder 1
  • Description: CF 268027 Bay Freeway
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box 3, Folder 2
  • Description: CF 267858 Violations, Ted best and Charles Carroll Campaigns (1 of 2)
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box 3, Folder 3
  • Description: CF 267858 Violations, Ted best and Charles Carroll Campaigns (2 of 2)
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box 3, Folder 4
  • Description: CF 262634 Off Street Parking Plan, Sick's Stadium
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box 3, Folder 5
  • Description: CF 259286 Yesler - Atlantic Renewal Project (1 of 4)
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 3, Folder 6
  • Description: CF 259286 Yesler - Atlantic Renewal Project (2 of 4)
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 3, Folder 7
  • Description: CF 259286 Yesler - Atlantic Renewal Project (3 of 4)
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 3, Folder 8
  • Description: CF 259286 Yesler - Atlantic Renewal Project (4 of 4)
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 3, Folder 9
  • Description: CF 257620 University Addition: Northlake Urban Renewal Project
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 3, Folder 10
  • Description: CF 257620 University Addition: Northlake Urban Renewal
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box 3, Folder 11
  • Description: CF 91716 Financial Affairs Health and Sanitation Dept.
    Dates: 1922
    Container: Box 3, Folder 12
  • Description: CF 241435 Limited Access Resolution, Fauntleroy Ave.
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box 3, Folder 13
  • Description: CF 185030 Council of the Whole: City Employee Salaries
    Dates: 1945
    Container: Box 3, Folder 14
  • Description: CF 249761 Mayor and Council w. State Highway Commission
    Dates: 1963
    Container: Box 3, Folder 15
  • Description: CF 246116 Mayor and Council w. State Highway Commission
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box 3, Folder 16
  • Description: CF 228001 CPC: Rezoning Near 32nd Ave. W. and W. Barrett
    Dates: 1955
    Container: Box 3, Folder 17
  • Description: CF 254316 Thomson Freeway, E. Aloha to E. Calhoun
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 3, Folder 18
  • Description: CF 284633 Thomson Freeway - E. Aloha to E. Calhoun (1 of 3)
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 3, Folder 19
  • Description: CF 284633 Thomson Freeway - E. Aloha to E. Calhoun (2 of 3)
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 3, Folder 20
  • Description: CF 284633 Thomson Freeway - E. Aloha to E. Calhoun (3 of 3)
    Dates: 1965
    Container: Box 3, Folder 21
  • Description: CF 286659 Lifeline Rate Standard Public Utilities Regulation (1 of 3)
    Dates: 1980
    Container: Box 3, Folder 22
  • Description: CF 286659 Lifeline Rate Standard Public Utilities Regulation (2 of 3)
    Dates: 1980
    Container: Box 3, Folder 23
  • Description: CF 286659 Lifeline Rate Standard Public Utilities Regulation (3 of 3)
    Dates: 1980
    Container: Box 3, Folder 24
  • Description: Judiciary Committee Proceedings RE: Gill Impeachment
    Dates: 1918
    Container: Box 4, Folder 1
  • Description: CF 73358 Council of the Whole: Charges v. Police and Health (1 of 4)
    Dates: 1919
    Container: Box 4, Folder 2
  • Description: CF 73358 Council of the Whole: Charges v. Police and Health (2 of 4)
    Dates: 1919
    Container: Box 4, Folder 3
  • Description: CF 73358 Council of the Whole: Charges v. Police and Health (3 of 4)
    Dates: 1919
    Container: Box 4, Folder 4
  • Description: CF 73358 Council of the Whole: Charges v. Police and Health (4 of 4)
    Dates: 1919 -1919
    Container: Box 4, Folder 5

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Subject Terms

  • Automobile parking--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Express highways--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Political campaigns--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Public Utilities--Law and legislation--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • R.H. Thomson Freeway (Seattle, Wash.)
  • Urban renewal--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Vice--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • West Seattle Freeway (Seattle, Wash.)

Personal Names

  • Carroll, Charles O.
  • Gill, Hiram C.

Corporate Names

  • Seattle (Wash.). City Clerk
  • Seattle (Wash.). City Council. Department Efficiency Committee
  • Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of Health and Sanitation
  • Seattle (Wash.). Police Dept.
  • Seattle (Wash.). Street Railway Commission

Geographical Names

  • Cedar River Watershed (King County, Wash.)
  • Seattle (Wash.)


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