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This series contains minutes, reports, and correspondence from the Procedures Review Committee of City Council.

This series contains minutes, reports, and correspondence from the Rules and Procedures Committee of City Council.

This series contains minutes, agendas, and attachments from the Executive Committee of City Council.

This series contains petitions submitted to City Council. It includes the following:

• 1979 petition to reduce the mill rate (sampled) [box 1]
• 1980 petition to declare City Hall a Municipal Historic Resource [boxes 1 and 2]
• 1985 letters and petitions in support of a proposed Cultural Policy as presented by the Mayor's Task Force on Culture [boxes 3 and 4]
• 1986 petition to protest proposed garbage dump at 259 Avenue and 17 Street NE [box 5]
• 1987 petition to protest budget cuts to curtail DATS transportation to ACT Centre [box 5]
• 1987 petition to have Edmonton declared a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone [box 6]
• 1988 petition in favour of the maintenance of the present airline service at the Edmonton Municipal Airport, and the continuation of scheduled commercial air service into the Edmonton Municipal Airport, and against additional restriction upon airline operations at the said Airport or the consolidation of airline operations at the Edmonton International Airport [box 7]
• 1992 petition to keep Keillor Road between Saskatchewan Drive and Fox Drive open (sampled) [box 1]
• 1993 petition for Council to Adopt an air services policy for Edmonton which requires all commercial jet passenger service to the Edmonton area be provided through the Edmonton International Airport (sampled) [box 1]
• 1994 petition to create a bylaw that requires the City of Edmonton to continue to hold all the issued shared of Edmonton Telephone Corporation, or alternatively, to submit the said bylaw to the electors for a vote (sampled) [box 1]
• 1998 petition to hold a plebiscite to request the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Liquor and Gaming Commission to remove Video Lottery Terminals from the City of Edmonton [boxes 8-16]
• 2004 petition to preserve Edmonton's historic housing and the natural urban village of 98th Avenue [box 16]

This series contains reports and publications created and received by the Office of the City Clerk. It also contains special reports delivered to the City Council in the early-to-mid 1900s on a variety of topics, including utilities and development. It also includes special investigations into issues such as fires, conflict of interest, and prostitution.

This series contains reports from the Finance Committee. The Finance Committee was established in 1914. The Committee discussed City financial matters and reported to Council. The Finance Committee was succeeded by the Finance and Budgeting Committee, then the Economic Affairs Committee.

This series contains reports from the Bylaws Committee. The Bylaws & Legislation Committee held their first meeting September 7, 1921. The name was changed in 1928 to the Bylaws Committee.

In 1965 Council requested that the City Commissioners look into the continued need of the Bylaws and Finance Committees. Council accepted their recommendation that a Committee of the Whole be struck to handle the issues previously dealt with by those two committees. The final meeting of the Bylaws Committee occurred April 11, 1965.

This series contains minutes from various Council Committees. Much of City Council's business was conducted through these Committees, which then reported to Council. Many specially appointed committees existed, as well as two standing committees: the Bylaws Committee (1922-1965) and Finance Committee (1914-1965).

In an attempt to streamline meetings, in 1965 the Committee of the Whole was established, replacing the Bylaws and Finance Committees. The Committee of the Whole met prior to Council meetings to listen to delegations and consider matters, and bring forward recommendations to the regular Council meeting.

This series includes the minutes of Edmonton Town Council from 1892-1904, and from Edmonton City Council from 1904-1991, as well as agendas from 1913-1945.