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City of Seattle
Seattle Municipal Archives
PO Box 94728
600 Fourth Avenue, Floor 3
Seattle, WA 98124-4728
Phone: 206/233-7807
Email: archives@seattle.gov
http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives

Guide to the Virginia Galle Subject Files, 1970-1989


4630-02





Finding aid prepared by Julie Kerssen

Finding aid encoded by Julie Kerssen, 2006


Overview of the Collection
 
Repository Name:
 

City of Seattle
Seattle Municipal Archives

PO Box 94728
600 Fourth Avenue, Floor 3
Seattle, WA 98124-4728
Phone: 206/233-7807
Email: archives@seattle.gov
http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives
 
Collection Number:
 

4630-02
 
Creator:
 

Galle, Virginia
 
Title:
 

Virginia Galle Subject Files
 
Dates:
 

1970-1989 (inclusive)
1983-1989 (bulk)
 
Quantity:
 

4 cubic feet
10 boxes
 
Languages:
 

Collection materials are in English 

 
Summary:
 

Virginia Galle served on the Seattle City Council between 1981 and 1989. This collection contains her subject files on topics such as solid waste, smoking policies, and domestic partnerships.
 

Biographical Note

Virginia Galle served two terms on City Council between 1981 and 1989. The daughter of career Salvation Army officers, she was a librarian and high school English teacher in the Midwest before moving to Seattle. Influenced by the women’s movement, in 1965 Galle went back to school to earn a master’s degree at the University of Washington’s Graduate School of Public Affairs, writing her thesis on King County’s home-rule charter. She began working in the City of Seattle’s new Citizens Service Bureau, an agency which served as a resource for information and a clearinghouse for complaints about the city. Galle worked her way up through the ranks to become the head of the agency.

In 1973, she became the first woman department head in Seattle city government when she was appointed director of the Department of Licenses and Consumer Affairs. She eventually was fired from that position by Mayor Wes Uhlman after her aggressive pursuit of companies she perceived to be swindling the public. She served as executive director of the Girl Scouts Totem Council from 1977 until she resigned in 1981 to run for a City Council seat vacated by Randy Revelle.

While on the Council, Galle chaired the City Operations and Utilities (1982-1983), Environmental Management (1984-1987), and Finance and Personnel (1988-1989) committees. In 1987, she testified before a U.S. Congressional subcommittee on municipal solid waste issues. She lost her seat to Tom Weeks in the 1989 election. After leaving the Council, Galle worked as a consultant and remained active in community affairs.

Content Description

The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, surveys, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to Galle’s work on various City Council committees. Materials have been organized into topical categories relating to issues of concern to the City Council.

A large portion of the materials reflects Galle’s extensive work on solid waste issues. One major initiative documented in the files is a proposal to demolish the West Point secondary treatment plant and build a new plant in Interbay. The files contain a large number of citizen comments about this plan. Another key topic is solid waste management, including issues surrounding a proposal to build a mass burn incinerator.

Another set of materials focuses on the development of smoking policies for City employees. Files chronicle the development of the policy, from recruitment of smoking and non-smoking employees to serve on the Citywide Smoking Policy Development Committee through employee input and legal challenges.

Domestic partnership was another issue Galle worked on. Files relate to two Council Bills addressing domestic partner benefits and use of sick leave and funeral leave for domestic partners. Materials include correspondence, news clippings, constituent letters, and background information.

Other topics covered in this collection include the redevelopment of Seattle Center, including files relating to a proposal from Disney to take over the site; management compensation; the admissions tax; the City Light customer information system; and the Seattle/Kent Good Neighbor Program.

Arrangement

The collection has been organized into eight topical categories:

  • Civil Rights & Education
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • Land Use & Urban Development
  • Parks, Recreation & Culture
  • Personnel
  • Public Safety & Health
  • Utilities, Water, & Waste Management

Administrative Information

Separated Materials 

Publications were pulled from the collection and are cataloged separately in the Published Documents Index.

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Access 

Records are open to the public.

Preferred Citation 

[Item and date], Virginia Galle Subject Files, Record Series 4630-02. Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.

Subjects

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

 
Galle, Virginia
Seattle Center (Seattle, Wash.)
Seattle (Wash.)
Domestic partner benefits--Washington (State)--Seattle
Integrated solid waste management--Washington (State)--Seattle
Refuse and refuse disposal--Washington (State)--Seattle
Sewage disposal--Washington (State)--Seattle
Smoking law and legislation--Washington (State)--Seattle
Other Creators :
Seattle (Wash.)--City Council

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.


 

Virginia Galle Subject Files, 1970-1989
 
Container(s)
Description
Dates
 
box/folder
1/1

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107337
   1989
 
1/2

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107337 - Background Material
   1987-1989
 
1/3

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107337 - Correspondence
   1989
 
1/4

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107337 - Hearing Testimony
   1989
 
1/5

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107337 - Legal Correspondence
   1989
 
1/6

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107337 - News Items
   1989
 
1/7

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107342
   1989
 
1/8

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107342 - Background
   1986-1989
 
1/9

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107342 - Correspondence
   1988-1989
 
1/10

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107342 - Initiative 35
   1989
 
1/11

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107342 - Letters
   1989
 
1/12

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107342 - Letters
   1989
 
1/13

Civil Rights & Education: Domestic Partners - CB 107342 - Public Hearing
   1989
 
1/14

Energy: Seattle City Light - City Light Customer Information System Reports
   1989
 
1/15

Finance: Admissions Tax
   1988-1989
 
2/1

Finance: Budgets - Major Funding Priorities - Correspondence
   1988
 
2/2

Finance: Budgets - Major Funding Priorities - Materials
   1988-1989
 
2/3

Finance: City Pension Fund - South African Investments
   1988-1989
 
2/4

Land Use & Urban Development: Seattle / Kent Good Neighbor Program
   1986-1989
 
2/5

Parks, Recreation & Culture: Seattle Center - Disney News Clippings
   1986-1987
 
2/6

Parks, Recreation & Culture: Seattle Center - Disney Proposal
   1987
 
2/7

Parks, Recreation & Culture: Seattle Center - Disney Proposal
   1987
 
2/8

Parks, Recreation & Culture: Seattle Center - Disney Proposal and Legislation
   1986-1987
 
2/9

Parks, Recreation & Culture: Seattle Center - Disney Resumes
   1987
 
2/10

Parks, Recreation & Culture: Seattle Center - Seattle Center Alternatives Commission
   1986
 
2/11

Parks, Recreation & Culture: Seattle Center - Seattle Center Plan
   1984-1987
 
3/1

Personnel: Charitable Campaign
   1988
 
3/2

Personnel: Charitable Campaign
   1988
 
3/3

Personnel: Charitable Campaign
   1989
 
3/4

Personnel: Management Compensation
   1988-1989
 
3/5

Personnel: Management Compensation Study
   1989
 
3/6

Public Safety & Health: City Smoking Policy
   1983-1989
 
3/7

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Applicants for Smoking Policy Development Committee
   1985
 
3/8

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Cessation Programs, Survey of Program Formats
   1985
 
3/9

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Committee Report and Recommendations, Drafts
   1985
 
3/10

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Committee Report and Recommendations, Drafts
   1985
 
4/1

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Committee Report and Recommendations, Final
   1985
 
4/2

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Committee Report and Recommendations, Minority Report.
   1985
 
4/3

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Compliance and Enforcement
   1984-1985
 
4/4

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Departmental Approaches to Compliance
   1985
 
4/5

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Employee Input
   1984-1985
 
4/6

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Employee Survey
   1985
 
4/7

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Health Effects
   1984-1985
 
4/8

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Medical Data
   1984
 
4/9

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Newspaper Clippings
   1983-1985
 
4/10

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Policy Drafts
   1984
 
4/11

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Reference Materials
   1983-1985
 
4/12

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Reference Materials
   1985
 
4/13

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Smoking in the Workplace Data
   1984
 
4/14

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Smoking in the Workplace Policies
   1984-1985
 
5/1

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Smoking Policies, Other Jurisdictions
   1983-1985
 
5/2

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Smoking Policies, Other Jurisdictions
   1983-1985
 
5/3

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Smoking Policy Development Committee Meetings
   1984-1985
 
5/4

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Smoking Policy Development Committee Meetings
   1984-1985
 
5/5

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Tobacco Institute Propaganda
   1983-1985
 
5/6

Public Safety & Health: No Smoking Ordinance: Washington State Smoking Law
   1984-1985
 
5/7

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Drainage - Budget
   1985-1986
 
5/8

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Drainage - Citizen's Advisory Committee
   1987
 
5/9

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Drainage - Delridge
   1986
 
5/10

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Drainage - Information
   1976-1987
 
5/11

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Drainage - Spot Improvements
   1987
 
5/12

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Drainage Problems - Correspondence
   1986
 
5/13

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Grading and Drainage Code
   1986-1987
 
5/14

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Recycling
   1988-1989
 
6/1

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Recycling
   1988-1989
 
6/2

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Recycling - Recycling Pilot Program
   1985-1987
 
6/3

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Recycling - Recycling Pilot Program
   1985-1987
 
6/4

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Recycling - Recycling Pilot Program
   1985-1987
 
6/5

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Recycling - Recycling Reports
   1988
 
6/6

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Seattle Engineering Department - Drainage and Wastewater Utility
   1988-1989
 
6/7

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Citizen Comments
   1985-1986
 
6/8

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Citizen Comments
   1986
 
6/9

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Citizen Comments
   1986
 
6/10

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Citizen Comments
   1986
 
6/11

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Citizen Comments
   1986
 
6/12

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Citizen Comments
   1986
 
6/13

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Citizen Comments
   1986
 
7/1

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Citizen Comments
   1986
 
7/2

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - City / County Meetings Materials
   1985-1986
 
7/3

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - City / County Meetings Materials
   1985-1986
 
7/4

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - City / Metro Correspondence
   1985-1986
 
7/5

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Memorandum of Agreement
   1986
 
7/6

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Secondary Treatment - Public Hearings
   1986
 
7/7

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Sewage - Sewer Drainage Capital Improvement Project, 1988
   1987-1988
 
7/8

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Charities and Garbage Rates
   1987-1988
 
7/9

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Disposal Alternatives
   1986
 
7/10

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Distant Landfills
   1989
 
7/11

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery - Letters and Information
   1987
 
7/12

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery - Letters and Information
   1987
 
7/13

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery - Letters and Information
   1987
 
7/14

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery - Letters and Information
   1987
 
7/15

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery - Letters and Information
   1987
 
7/16

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery - Public Hearing
   1987
 
7/17

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery - Responses
   1987
 
7/18

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development City Light Substation Annexation
   1970-1986
 
8/1

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development Information
   1986-1987
 
8/2

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development Information
   1986-1987
 
8/3

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development Information
   1986-1987
 
8/4

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development Information
   1986-1987
 
8/5

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development Information
   1986-1987
 
8/6

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development Information
   1986-1987
 
8/7

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development Public Relations Efforts
   1987
 
8/8

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development Scope and Schedule
   1987
 
8/9

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Energy/Resource Recovery Project Development Scope and Schedule
   1987
 
8/10

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Identification and Screening of Potential Energy Markets
   1983
 
8/11

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Implementing Legislation
   1987
 
8/12

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - King County Solid Waste Interlocal Forum
   1988
 
8/13

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Privatization
   1987-1988
 
9/1

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Solid Waste Comprehensive Plan, Citizen Correspondence
   1986
 
9/2

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Solid Waste Comprehensive Plan, Council Meeting Materials
   1986
 
9/3

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Solid Waste Comprehensive Plan, Inter - Agency Correspondence
   1986
 
9/4

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Solid Waste Comprehensive Plan, News Articles
   1986
 
9/5

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Solid Waste Comprehensive Plan, Proposals
   1986
 
9/6

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Solid Waste Information
   1984
 
9/7

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Tulalip / Puget Sound Regional Resource Recovery System Proposal
   1987
 
9/8

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Tulalip / Puget Sound Regional Resource Recovery System Proposal
   1987
 
9/9

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Tulalip / Puget Sound Regional Resource Recovery System Proposal
   1987
 
9/10

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Tulalip / Puget Sound Regional Resource Recovery System Proposal
   1987
 
9/11

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Environmental Impact Statement Materials
   1985
 
9/12

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Hazardous Waste
   1984
 
10/1

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Interagency Letters
   1984-1986
 
10/2

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Interagency Letters
   1984-1986
 
10/3

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Interagency Letters
   1984-1986
 
10/4

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - News Articles
   1984-1985
 
10/5

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Pro/Con Letters
   1984-1986
 
10/6

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Pro/Con Letters
   1984-1986
 
10/7

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Public Announcements
   1984
 
10/8

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Public Hearing / Meetings
   1984-1985
 
10/9

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Management - Reading Materials
   1984-1985
 
10/10

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Reduction and Disposal Options
   1987-1989
 
10/11

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Reduction and Disposal Options
   1987-1989
 
10/12

Utilities, Water, & Waste Management: Solid Waste - Waste Reduction and Disposal Options
   1987-1989