Tom Weeks
Tom Weeks | |
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| File:Seattle City Council member Tom Weeks, 1991.jpg | |
| Member of the Seattle City Council from Position 6 | |
| In office January 1, 1990 – August 2, 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Virginia Galle |
| Succeeded by | Charlie Chong |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Party | Democratic |
| Residence(s) | Seattle, WA |
| Alma mater | |
Tom Weeks is a former Seattle City Council member from 1990 until he resigned in 1996.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Weeks was born and raised in West Seattle.[1] He is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School graduate program, where he was also a teacher's assistant.[1] Before his running for city council, he owned a conflict-negotiation consulting business.[2]
Seattle city council
[edit | edit source]Elections
[edit | edit source]In 1989, Weeks ran for Seattle city council for Position 6 against incumbent Virginia Galle.[3] In the September primary election, he and Galle advanced to the general with 30% and 43% of the vote, respectively.[4] Galle accused Weeks of padding his resume when he claimed he taught at Harvard, "He talks about teaching when he means teaching assistant."[1] Weeks defended his experience, saying he did teach courses until Harvard released a statement saying he was not on the faculty and did not teach complete five-month courses.[1] Weeks said Galle was too much of an outsider and ineffective at coalition building.[1][2] In the general election, Weeks defeated Gale, 55% to 45%, and he outspent her on a 2-1 ratio.[5][6][7]
Weeks ran for reelection in 1993 and faced seven challengers.[8] In the September primary, Weeks came in first with over 63% of the vote, with businesswoman Pam Roats coming in second with 16%.[8][9] Weeks ran on his record and his overwhelming win in the primary, while Roats attacked him over a $10,000 ethics complaint against Weeks' from the Ethics and Elections Commission.[9] In the general election, Weeks defeated Roats, 65% to 35%.[5]
Tenure
[edit | edit source]During his tenure, Weeks was chair of the Housing and Human Services, Finance, and Personnel and Labor Policy Committees.[7] As chair of the Finance committee, he oversaw the merger of the community development and human services departments, and, separately, the melding of the comptroller's and treasurer's offices.[9] Weeks was active in the budget process and used savings for increased "...investment(s) in human capital and human services as crime prevention.[9][10]
In 1993, a city employee lodged an ethics complaint against Weeks for mailing a newsletter at city expense to 35,000 households.[11] He denied that he broke any laws, but there was a perspective that he had, saying "The perception here was almost as important as the facts."[12] Weeks repaid the city $10,256.19 over three installments.[9][12][13]
Weeks announced he would resign from the council, effective August 2, 1996, to take a job as Seattle School District's director of human resources.[7][14]
Post-council
[edit | edit source]After working at the Seattle School District, Weeks became chairman of the board of the Seattle Monorail Project.[15][16] Voters rejected the Monorail project initiative, on a 2–1 margin due financial problems.[16] Project leaders, including Weeks, resigned after the vote.[15]
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