NRS-16903 | Special Committee re concreting of Norton and Marion Streets [Leichhardt Council]

This series consists of minutes of the Special Committee re Norton Street and Marion Street concreting. The handwritten minutes are recorded chronologically, by date of meeting in an exercise book. Some brief minutes for meetings held on 25 May 1928 and 7 August 1928 have been written on loose sheets of paper and inserted into the volume. Matters dealt with in the minutes include: the disposal of metal and spoil; maintenance of pipes and drains; crossings into properties; the appointment of Mr A.S. Patison as Clerk of Works; kerbing and guttering; gully gratings; alterations of street levels; correspondence with the Tramway department about a signalling apparatus and temporary planking at places for boarding and alighting; temporary street closures; contractual payments; correspondence with the City Council Electricity Department regarding electricity cables; correspondence with the Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board regarding water mains; and footpath and roadwork construction and maintenance.Section 109 of the Municipalities Act of 1867 (Act 31 Vic. No.12), which was assented to on 23 December 1867, allowed municipal councils to appoint either standing committees or occasional (special) committees, composed of councillors, and to delegate to the committees 'any inquiry negotiation or arrangement or power to do any emergent act or to carry out any work which such Council may have ordered agreed to or directed'. However, Committees had to report to the council at the earliest opportunity.The reports and recommendations document the decisions made by the Committee at its meetings. The minutes of each meeting of the Committee were confirmed at the following committee meeting and signed by the chairman to guarantee that they were a true and accurate record. However such recommendations were not binding upon Council. The Committee's recommendations were normally submitted to the next Council meeting. Council could reject the recommendation, send the recommendation back to the committee for further discussion, amend the recommendation, or accept the recommendation. The recommendations were not binding upon Council unless, and until, adopted by Council as shown in the minutes of the Council meeting.