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Mission Statement: The City of Orting supports the development of services and organizations which bring significant value to its citizens and which serve a public purpose.

Selected grant recipients may receive direct cash contributions from the City of Orting, pursuant to the following procedures and conditions. Grant funding is defined as direct cash donations to non-profit and/or section 501(c)(3) organizations which bring significant value to the citizens of Orting and which serve a public purpose, and organizations that benefit vulnerable and needy populations are given priority. Grant requests are considered on an annual basis and receiving a grant is not guaranteed year to year. Grant requests are dependent on limited city funds and the council reserves the right to allocate funds as it deems appropriate.

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Kim Agfalvi, CMC - City Clerk

(360) 893-9008

kagfalvi@cityoforting.org

Danielle Charchenko, Executive Assistant/Records Clerk

(360) 893-9002

dcharchenko@cityoforting.org

Request for Public Records

The City of Orting asks citizens to complete a Request for Public Records Form or submit a request online through NextRequest. The request is processed by the City Clerk's Office and in some cases routed through the City Attorney's office. Remember: A more detailed request will enable us to provide the information requested in a timelier manner.

Online Submission: NextRequest

Form Submission: Request for Public Records Form

By Mail: City of Orting, Attn: City Clerk, PO Box 489, Orting, WA 98360
In Person: Drop of the request form to City Hall during business hours.
By Email: kagfalvi@cityoforting.org

Records Request Fee Schedule

If you need information on the status of your request, please contact Kim Agfalvi at (360) 893-9008

History of the City Clerk Profession

1.04.010 THE OLDEST GOVERNMENT PROFESSION. The municipal clerk, along with the tax collector, is the oldest public servant. The office can be traced to biblical times and even before. Saint Paul and his followers during his missionary work in Persia (now Western Turkey) owed their safety to the action of a town clerk. As related in Acts XIX, 23-25, the artisans of Ephesus who made the idols of the time, feared the effect of Paul's missionary work on their trade. They incited a mob to seize two of Paul's followers. The town clerk, however, spoke out against this action and insisted that charges laid against these men had to be settled in the proper manner and before the proper authorities. There was no justification for riotous conduct. With that, he dispersed the crowd.

Ancient Greece had a city secretary who read official documents publicly. At the opening of a meeting, one of his duties was to read a curse upon anyone who should seek to deceive the people. The early keepers of the archives were often called remembrancers, and before writing came into use, their memory was the public record.

The title as we know it is derived from the Middle Ages. A "clerk" was any member of a religious order, a "cleric," or "clergyman." Since, for all practical purposes, the scholarship of the Middle Ages was limited to the clergy, the name "clerk" came to be synonymous with "scholar."

The office of clerk can be traced back to the year 1272 A.D. in the History of the Corporation of Old London. In the 1500’s in England there was not only the "Towne Clarcke" but also the "Clerc Comptroller of the King's Honorable Household." In 1603, there was a "Clarke General of the Armie." King Henry the Eighth had a "Clarke of the Spicery" and King Charles had his "Clerk of the Robes." When the early colonists came to America, they set up forms of local government to which they had been accustomed, and the office of clerk was one of the first established. The colony at Plymouth appointed a person to act as a recorder.

Over the years, municipal clerks have become the hub of government, the direct link between the inhabitants of their towns and their government. The clerk is the historian of the community, for the entire recorded history of the town and its people are in the clerk's care. The eminent political scientist, Professor William Bennett Munro, writing in one of the first textbooks on municipal administration, stated: "No other office in municipal service has so many contacts. It serves the mayor, the city council, the city manager (when there is one), and all administrative departments without exception. All of them call upon it, almost daily, for some service or information. Its work is not spectacular, but it demands versatility, alertness, accuracy, and no end of patience. The public does not realize how many loose ends of city administration this office pulls together." Those words, written over 75 years ago, are even more appropriate today.

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