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Seattle City Council Introduction and Referral Calendar May 13, 2013

     BY BURGESS 1. C.B. 117776 AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof. Committee referral: Full Council      BY BAGSHAW 2. C.B. 117777 AN ORDINANCE relating to the City of Seattle’s Department of Parks and Recreation; authorizing the Superintendent to enter into an agreement with Seattle Audubon Society [...]

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Legislation approved April 15, 2013, and filed with the City Clerk

Ord. 124158 C.B. 117739 AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department, declaring as surplus and authorizing the Superintendent or his designee to release a portion of a patrol road easement located in Snohomish County, Washington, within the right of way for the Bothell Substation to Creston Nelson Substation transmission corridor, accepting payment for the [...]

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Seattle City Council Introduction and Referral Calendar May 6, 2013

COUNCIL BILLS      BY BURGESS 1. C.B. 117774 AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof. Committee referral: Full Council      BY RASMUSSEN 2. C.B. 117775 AN ORDINANCE granting Apex Hotel Condominium Association of Apartment Owners permission to maintain and operate a concrete shear wall on the east side [...]

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Archives Find of the Month: Liquor and Amusements, 1895

A group of about forty Seattle businessmen petitioned the Mayor and City Council in 1895 to permit amusements (such as concerts, dances, shows, and the like) to be allowed in conjunction with saloons. They wrote that they believed “the best interests of the City of Seattle would be subserved by, and that large revenues could [...]

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Legislation approved on April 8, 2013, and filed with the City Clerk

PDF copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 124154 C.B. 117752 AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof. Ord. 124155 C.B. 117747 AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the City of Seattle and [...]

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Legislation approved on April 1, 2013, and filed with the City Clerk

PDF copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 124150 C.B. 117723 AN ORDINANCE related to land use and zoning; amending page 25 of the Official Land Use Map, Seattle Municipal Code Chapter 23.32, to rezone properties located in the Greenwood/Phinney Ridge Residential Urban Village and applying incentive provisions [...]

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Legislation approved March 25, 2013, and filed with the City Clerk

PDF copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 124145 C.B. 117727 AN ORDINANCE related to the creation of the Office of the Community Police Commission within the Executive Department; amending Ordinance 124058 by establishing a budget control level, position authority and appropriations for the 2013 fiscal year; amending [...]

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Legislation approved March 18, 2013, and filed with the City Clerk

PDF copies of the signed legislation are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 124140 C.B. 117711 AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department (“City Light”), declaring certain real property rights surplus and no longer required for providing public utility service or other municipal purpose; authorizing the Superintendent of City Light to execute [...]

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Archives Find of the Month: Stray Baseballs

With spring comes baseball, and with baseball comes broken windows. Over the years, citizens and businesses have complained to the city about stray fly balls damaging their property and asked what could be done. In one example, three Mount Baker neighbors wrote a joint letter to the City Council in 1920 requesting an ordinance to [...]

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Seattle Municipal Archives Feature: Open Housing in Seattle

Open Housing in Seattle Fair Housing Month is celebrated across the country in April.  Designated by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, it marks the date of April 11, 1968, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968.  The Act expanded previous legislation and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, [...]