PDF copies of the original signed documents are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 123841 C.B. 117406 AN ORDINANCE relating to grant funds from the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance; authorizing the Mayor or his designee to execute related agreements; increasing an appropriation in the 2012 Adopted Budget for the [...]
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April 6, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Seattle City Council Introduction and Referral Calendar April 9, 2012
Seattle City Council Introduction and Referral Calendar April 9, 2012 BY BURGESS 1. C.B. 117442 AN ORDINANCE appropriating money to pay certain audited claims and ordering the payment thereof. Committee referral: Full Council BY RASMUSSEN 2. C.B. 117443 AN ORDINANCE vacating a portion of Southwest Dakota Street between West Marginal Way Southwest and the Southwesterly [...]
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April 4, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Legislation passed March 12, 2012 and filed with the City Clerk
PDF copies of the original, signed documents are available in the database records linked below: Ord. 123839 C.B. 117422 AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to enter into a license agreement with the Port of Seattle allowing Seattle Public Utilities to make a connection to a storm [...]
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April 3, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Seattle Municipal Archives Find of the Month: Working Wives during the Great Depression
High unemployment during the Great Depression led to scrutiny of families with more than one wage earner, particularly if one of those employed was a woman. A 1930 letter to a local newspaper complained that the wife of a fireman of the writer’s acquaintance “works in a store and lets two children run wild. The [...]
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Action Summary, Monday, 4/02/12
The following is a summation of Council actions at today’s 2:00 p.m. Full Council meeting. Councilmember Tom Rasmussen excused. FULL COUNCIL: 1. Clerk File 312198 FILED (8 – 0) 2011 Annual Report of the Office of the Hearing Examiner. ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE: 2. Council Bill 117433 PASSED (8 – 0) Relating to...
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Archives Feature: Earth Day
Earth Day is celebrated globally on April 22 to shine a spotlight on environmental issues with education and action. Attitudes about recycling, composting, and solid waste have changed significantly since the first Earth Day in 1970. Landfills were a primary means of disposal of solid waste in Seattle through the mid-1980s. The University Dump, now [...]
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Seattle Municipal Archives Photo of the Month
Opening of Lincoln Park Swimming Pool, July 27, 1925 This pool was dug out of dirt with a retaining wall of rocks along the sides. It filled with salt water from Puget Sound. A muddy bottom and control valves that did not always contain the water eventually required a pool made of concrete and tile. [...]
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April 2, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Fair Housing Month
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Right Acts of 1968 on April 11, 1968; Title VIII of the Act is also known as the Fair Housing Act of 1968. April is known as Fair Housing Month for this reason. In Seattle, until 1968, it was legal to discriminate against minorities in [...]
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March 30, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Seattle City Council Introduction and Referral Calendar April 2, 2012
Seattle City Council Introduction and Referral Calendar April 2, 2012 BY CLARK 1. C.B. 117436 AN ORDINANCE relating to notice procedures in Hearing Examiner proceedings, amending Sections 3.02.090, 3.02.100, 5.55.150, 5.55.230, 6.02.290, 6.202.310, 7.20.100, 10.07.050, 10.52.032,10.52.034, 11.16.317, 14.04.180, 14.06.120, 14.08.180, 14.10.140, 14.16.080, 15.91.006, 15.91.010, 22.206.217, 22.208.050, 22.210.150, 22.220.140, 22.920.160, 23.66.030, 23.91.006, 23.91.010, 25.02.080, 25.08.930, 25.10.540, [...]
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March 26, 2012January 6, 2023City Clerk
Action Summary, Monday 3/26/12
The following is a summation of Council actions at today’s 2 p.m. Full Council meeting. Councilmember Tom Rasmussen excused. LIBRARIES, UTILITIES, AND CENTER COMMITTEE: 1. Council Bill 117421 PASSED (8 – 0) Relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to transfer sewer infrastructure to King County; and to relinquish portions [...]