Seattle Municipal Archives
Hearings Transcripts
Seattle (Wash.). City
Clerk
1802-B5
3.2 cubic feet
1922-1980 English .
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.
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.
Records are open to the public.
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.
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).
Carroll, Charles
O.
Gill, Hiram C.
Seattle (Wash.). Dept. of
Health and Sanitation
Seattle (Wash.). City
Clerk
Seattle (Wash.). Street
Railway Commission
Seattle (Wash.). City
Council. Department Efficiency Committee
Seattle (Wash.). Police
Dept.
Seattle (Wash.)
Cedar River Watershed
(King County, Wash.)
Public Utilities--Law and
legislation--Washington (State)--Seattle
Vice--Washington
(State)--Seattle
R.H. Thomson Freeway
(Seattle, Wash.)
West Seattle Freeway
(Seattle, Wash.)
Automobile
parking--Washington (State)--Seattle
Express
highways--Washington (State)--Seattle
Urban renewal--Washington
(State)--Seattle
Political
campaigns--Washington (State)--Seattle
CF 225135 Investigation of
Plumbing Division and Administration (1 of 4)
1954
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1
1
CF 225135 Investigation of
Plumbing Division and Administration (2 of 4)
1954
English.
1
2
CF 225135 Investigation of
Plumbing Division and Administration (3 of 4)
1954
English.
1
3
CF 225135 Investigation of
Plumbing Division and Administration (4 of 4)
1954
English.
1
4
CF 232853 Punchboard Tax
Thefts
1957
English.
1
5
CF 241919 Limited Access Highway
Facility
1961
English.
1
6
CF 243673 Meeting of Council and
Mayor with WA State Highway Commission
1961
English.
1
7
CF 244517 State Highway
Commission re: RH Thomson Freeway
1962
English.
1
8
Limited Access Highway, Roanoke
and Montlake Interchanges
1961
English.
1
9
CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and
Police Investigations ( 1 of 7)
1924
English.
1
10
CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and
Police Investigations ( 2 of 7)
1924
English.
1
11
CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and
Police Investigations ( 3 of 7)
1924
English.
1
12
CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and
Police Investigations ( 4 of 7)
1924
English.
1
13
CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and
Police Investigations ( 5 of 7)
1924
English.
1
14
CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and
Police Investigations ( 6 of 7)
1924
English.
1
15
CF 100013 DEC: Civil Service and
Police Investigations ( 7 of 7)
1924
English.
1
16
CF 132489 DEC: Salvaging Saleable
Waste from City Garbage Dumps
1931
English.
1
17
CF 180966 Council: Paving of 30th
West, Protest
1944
English.
1
18
CF 163502 Council: Appointments
to Street Railway Commission
1939
English.
1
19
CF 195218 DEC: Merits of Cast
Iron Pipe
1947
English.
1
20
CF 146477 DEC: Appt of Water
Superintendent ( Alvin Lewis)
1932
English.
1
21
CF 170433 DEC: Appointment of
Police Chief (William Sears) 1 of 2
1941
English.
1
22
CF 170433 DEC: Appointment of
Police Chief (William Sears) 2 of 2
1941
English.
1
23
CF 148092 Patrol Report from
Police Signal Stations
1935
English.
1
24
CF 148092 Council: Vice,
Gambling, Graft in City Administration
1935
English.
2
1
CF 148090 Council: Exhibits about
Vice Investigation
1935
English.
2
2
CF 148091 Council: Exhibits about
Vice Investigation
1935
English.
2
3
CF 147559 Council: Exhibits about
Vice Investigation
1935
English.
2
4
CF 274532 Limited Access Hearing,
West Seattle Freeway
1972
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2
5
CF 272803 West Seattle Freeway,
36th Ave SW to Interstate 5
1972
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2
6
Location and Design Hearing, West
Seattle Freeway
1972
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2
7
CF 254318 Thomson Freeway, E.
Aloha to E. Calhoun
1965
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2
8
CF 254317 Thomson Freeway, E.
Aloha to E. Calhoun (1 of 2)
1965
English.
2
9
CF 254317 Thomson Freeway, E.
Aloha to E. Calhoun (2 of 2)
1965
English.
2
10
CF 284631 Thomson Freeway,
Limited Access Hearing
1962
English.
2
11
CF 284632 Thomson Freeway,
Limited Access Hearing
1962
English.
2
12
CF 284630 Empire Expressway
Routes
1961
English.
2
13
CF 284634 Thomson
Freeway
1965
English.
2
14
CF 100241 Campaign Limitations
Ordinance
1976
English.
2
15
CF 276924 Northeast Pacific
Street Relocation
1973
English.
2
16
CF 270553 Rainier Ave S.
Pedestrian Overpass - S. Mt. Baker Blvd.
1971
English.
2
17
CF 284503 Central Business
District Exclusive Bus Lanes
1976
English.
2
18
CF 279704 Board of Ethics:
Council Conflict of Interest
1974
English.
2
19
CF 282413 FCPC: Complaint v. Liem
Tuai
1975
English.
2
20
CF 265484 Seattle Center Parking
Plan Revised
1970
English.
3
1
CF 268027 Bay Freeway
1970
English.
3
2
CF 267858 Violations, Ted best
and Charles Carroll Campaigns (1 of 2)
1970
English.
3
3
CF 267858 Violations, Ted best
and Charles Carroll Campaigns (2 of 2)
1970
English.
3
4
CF 262634 Off Street Parking
Plan, Sick's Stadium
1969
English.
3
5
CF 259286 Yesler - Atlantic
Renewal Project (1 of 4)
1967
English.
3
6
CF 259286 Yesler - Atlantic
Renewal Project (2 of 4)
1967
English.
3
7
CF 259286 Yesler - Atlantic
Renewal Project (3 of 4)
1967
English.
3
8
CF 259286 Yesler - Atlantic
Renewal Project (4 of 4)
1967
English.
3
9
CF 257620 University Addition:
Northlake Urban Renewal Project
1963
English.
3
10
CF 257620 University Addition:
Northlake Urban Renewal
1967
English.
3
11
CF 91716 Financial Affairs Health
and Sanitation Dept.
1922
English.
3
12
CF 241435 Limited Access
Resolution, Fauntleroy Ave.
1960
English.
3
13
CF 185030 Council of the Whole:
City Employee Salaries
1945
English.
3
14
CF 249761 Mayor and Council w.
State Highway Commission
1963
English.
3
15
CF 246116 Mayor and Council w.
State Highway Commission
1962
English.
3
16
CF 228001 CPC: Rezoning Near 32nd
Ave. W. and W. Barrett
1955
English.
3
17
CF 254316 Thomson Freeway, E.
Aloha to E. Calhoun
1965
English.
3
18
CF 284633 Thomson Freeway - E.
Aloha to E. Calhoun (1 of 3)
1965
English.
3
19
CF 284633 Thomson Freeway - E.
Aloha to E. Calhoun (2 of 3)
1965
English.
3
20
CF 284633 Thomson Freeway - E.
Aloha to E. Calhoun (3 of 3)
1965
English.
3
21
CF 286659 Lifeline Rate Standard
Public Utilities Regulation (1 of 3)
1980
English.
3
22
CF 286659 Lifeline Rate Standard
Public Utilities Regulation (2 of 3)
1980
English.
3
23
CF 286659 Lifeline Rate Standard
Public Utilities Regulation (3 of 3)
1980
English.
3
24
Judiciary Committee Proceedings
RE: Gill Impeachment
1918
English.
4
1
CF 73358 Council of the Whole:
Charges v. Police and Health (1 of 4)
1919
English.
4
2
CF 73358 Council of the Whole:
Charges v. Police and Health (2 of 4)
1919
English.
4
3
CF 73358 Council of the Whole:
Charges v. Police and Health (3 of 4)
1919
English.
4
4
CF 73358 Council of the Whole:
Charges v. Police and Health (4 of 4)
1919 -1919 English.
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