NRS-18367 | Minutes [Kanimbla Shire Council (1906-1907) / Blue Mountains Shire Council (1907-1947) / Blue Mountains City Council (1947- )]

This series consists of minutes of the General or Ordinary meetings and the Special or Extraordinary meetings of the Council of Kanimbla Shire Council (1906-1907), Blue Mountains Shire Council (1907-1947) and the Blue Mountains City Council (1947- ).The General meetings were called for Ordinary business and were recurrent meetings prescribed by legislation to be held at regular intervals. Special meetings could be called for Extraordinary business by the Mayor or by two Councillors and dealt with a specific issue. Reports were generally also tabled at these meetings as well as at the general meeting relating to the subject.The minutes document the decisions made by the Council at its meetings. The minutes usually include the following sections: attendance of Council members, confirmation of minutes of the previous meeting, business arising out of the minutes of the previous meeting, Mayor's or President's or Official minutes (which brought to Council's attention significant matters within its jurisdiction or of which it had official knowledge), recommendations from Council committees, reports by Council officers, outward and inward correspondence, petitions, questions with notice, orders of the day or general business, and questions without notice.The minutes are held in a mix of leather-bound, kalamazoo and cloth-bound volumes. There is a gap in this series for the period of August 1912 to December 1923 due to the destruction of the minutes books of that period.