The project of democracy relies on the public's access to information about government activities. This project increased government transparency and accountability by making archival materials about the Seattle Department of Transportation's urban forestry activities discoverable and accessible. At the beginning of the project, the materials had been backlogged for ten years, disorganized, mixed in with irrelevant items, and unlisted in any public-facing document. This project saw those materials organized by topic and year, labeled, and made discoverable and accessible for patrons. The new, online finding aid provides metadata to help patrons find materials and thick descriptions to give broader context.