This series contains reports from committees on finance and budget, economic affairs, legislative matters, utilities, and engineering. It also contains correspondence with the City Commissioners on proposals, answers to inquiries, and reports.
This series consists of records created by the Public Affairs Committee. It includes meeting minutes, agendas and attachments from 1968-1985 (files 1-503), reports to Council from 1968-1981 (files 504-705) and Committee correspondence from 1968-1973 (files 706-883).
Public Affairs CommitteeThis series includes correspondence relating to municipal elections, personnel, the development of parks and recreational facilities, planning, and the proposed Civic Centre/Omniplex. There are also small amounts of material related to finances, utilities, housing, welfare and social services, and the police and fire departments. This series was divided into 177 Classes.
This series includes certified copies of agreement between the corporation of Edmonton and various other parties. This series also includes agreements made by the Town of Strathcona between 1899 and 1909.
This series comprises repealed municipal bylaws.
This series contains material relating to different committees and subjects dealt with by municipal government. The material was arranged into 64 classes based on subject.
This series is comprised of a single debenture certificate for $884 issued by the Town of Edmonton payable to the Bank of Hamilton.
Finance CommitteeSpecially appointed committees were struck to meet the needs of the City Council to respond to specific issues arising from the business of the City. Calls for investigation of administrative matters, organization of public meetings, special commemorative events, or fact finding to answer questions raised by aldermen led to the appointment of short-term committees. By 1915, many of these committees such as the Finance Committee and the Negotiating Committee were routinely appointed each year. Other committees had shorter lifespans, or changed name and focus as the needs of the City Council changed.
During the period following the Second World War the work of organizing these committees increased significantly and a Secretary to the Committees was hired. Eventually the committee structure stabilized to four or five regularly appointed bodies which appear in most of the years from the 1930s onwards.
This series contains correspondence and special reports from these special committees.
This series includes correspondence relating to taxation, legislation, building construction, Council, and the Bouillon Investigation. This series contains the following classes:
- Class 1: Correspondence, 1891-1913
- Class 2: Scrapbook
This series includes a single file containing Bylaw 926 and Bylaw 1425, which relate to Royal Visits to Edmonton in 1939 and 1951 respectively. Also included is a press release and map of the route of Royal progress in 1939.