Wesley C. Uhlman mayoral records, 1956-1978 bulk 1970-1977.

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Wesley C. Uhlman mayoral records, 1956-1978 bulk 1970-1977.

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Correspondence with city departments regarding ongoing operations as well as specific issues and events. The largest section of records covers the Executive Dept., which includes the office and activities of the Mayor as well as subsidiary agencies like the Citizens Service Bureau, the Office of Policy Planning, and the Office of Management and Budget. Mayoral staffers' files are also included. Records relating to the Dept. of Community Development go into detail about the city's neighborhood improvement and urban renewal projects, including the Westlake and Yesler-Atlantic projects, as well as the plan to redevelop Pike Place Market. Materials from the Lighting Dept. cover issues including Ross Dam and labor strikes. Police Dept. files include citizen complaints as well as discussions of gambling and hollow point bullets. Other departments heavily represented in the records include Engineering, Legislative (City Council), Human Resources (social services), and Personnel. The second series contains correspondence, reports, and other records related to the issues, programs, and organizations that were part of the work of the Mayor's Office during Uhlman's tenure. Topics include large transportation projects and the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial to individual parks and fire stations. The records include correspondence with and about local organizations such as the Downtown Seattle Development Association, Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau, League of Women Voters, and Central Area Motivation Program (CAMP). The mayor's work with organizations such as the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Japan-American Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities, and Seattle-King County Economic Opportunity Board is also documented. The work of boards and commissions as varied as the Seattle-King County Youth Commission, the Mayor's Maritime Advisory Committee, the Building Code Advisory Board, and the Mayor's Task Force on Arson is represented here as well. Additionally, the records contain correspondence with other local governmental entities, including King County, Metro, the Port of Seattle, and Washington State agencies. There is also documentation of the city's contacts with the federal government, especially HUD and the Departments of Labor and Transportation. The records also include routine mayoral correspondence such as thank you letters, congratulations, responses to invitations, condolences, and letters of introduction. The third series contains correspondence with individuals and institutions, filed by letter. Many of these are from citizens who wrote to the mayor about a particular issue of concern to them. Other miscellaneous correspondence, sorted by year, is also included. The emergence of a number of issues and movements can be traced in these records, including the creation of environmental policy and the codification of historic preservation in the city. Civil rights and related issues are documented in records relating to demonstrations, affirmative action, redlining, school desegregation, the Black Panthers, and the city's first Gay Pride proclamation. Transportation projects are detailed in files about Interstate 90, rapid transit, and freeway projects, and records about Fort Lawton, Sand Point, and the Kingdome relate to major land use issues of the day. Other topics represented in this series include Forward Thrust, drug abuse, housing, city charter amendments, the Burke-Gilman Trail, major league baseball, the municipal building, neighborhood issues, Seafair, sister cities, and the city's animal shelter.

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