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This series consists of meeting minutes, agendas, attachments, reports to Council, and correspondence created by the Utilities and Engineering Committee. Over the years the Committee had various names, including the Utilities Committee (1968-1971), the Utilities and Engineering Committee (1971-1982), the Utilities and Protective Services Committee (1982-1984), and the Utilities and Finance Committee (1984).

Between 1968 and 1972 only the meeting minutes were filed, with associated attachments being kept separately in subject files. Between 1973 and 1978 meeting minutes were filed with agendas, attachments, and associated reports to Council. Starting in December of 1978 reports to Council were filed separately.

This series includes all incoming and outgoing correspondence and several administrative registers. The correspondence deals with all matters involving the Town, in particular municipal elections, water and sewer extensions, electric lighting, the street railway system, immigration, the sale of Town debentures, taxation, property alterations, and numerous petitions for extended services. The records have been classified according to subject and provided with an index.

This series contains the following classes:

• Class 1: Outgoing correspondence, 1892-1894
• Class 2: Outgoing correspondence, 1894-1896
• Class 3: Incoming correspondence, 1895-1896
• Class 4: Outgoing correspondence and census report, 1896-1899
• Class 5: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1902-1903
• Class 6: Plumbing undertaken for private citizens, 1902-1906
• Class 7: Debentures sold, 1893-1906
• Class 8: Electric metre recordings and payments, 1903
• Class 9: Receipts and disbursements, 1903-1905
• Class 10: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1904
• Class 11: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1905
• Class 12: Register and index of new buildings, 1905-1911
• Class 13: Outgoing correspondence to various school districts, 1905-1907
• Class 14: Electric light register, 1905-1906
• Class 15: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1906
• Class 16: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1907
• Class 17: Debenture register, 1906-1910
• Class 18: Electric metre books, 1907
• Class 19: Electric metre books, 1908
• Class 20: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1908
• Class 21: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1909
• Class 22: City Council Finance Committee, recommendations for payment, 1909-1911
• Class 23: Disbursements, 1909-1911
• Class 24: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1910
• Class 25: Incoming and outgoing correspondence, 1911-1912

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

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 subseries consists of published copies of voters' and burgesses' lists produced from the original ledgers used to gather the information from districts across the City of Edmonton. The published copies amalgamate multiple districts into fewer ledgers, usually three to five, depending on the year. The published copies also incorporate any revisions or edits that may have been made to the information drawn from the original ledgers and were used as reference copies. They include information including the name, address, burgess status (i.e. if they owned property), and which school board they supported (Public of Separate).

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).

This series contains minutes, reports, and correspondence from the Procedures Review 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 subseries consists of the original ledgers used to record information regarding Civic Elections and Census Enumeration throughout the City of Edmonton's polling districts. Each ledger corresponds to one polling district within the City and were carried by City staff to each address in the district to record information regarding the occupants. The ledgers from 1945 onwards include name, address, if they are a British subject, if they own property, their section of either Protestant of Catholic for school taxes, their marital status, the name of their employer, the number of people in the residence under the age of 21 and their gender, and the type of dwelling in which they reside.