NRS-20709 | Minutes [Marrickville Council]

The series consists of minutes of the General or Ordinary meetings and the Special or Extraordinary meetings of the Marrickville Municipal Council and Marrickville Council. These minute books were created under s.67 of the Municipalities Act of 1858, (22 Vic No.13) and subsequent legislation.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 also tabled at these meetings as well as at the general meeting relating to the subject.The minutes record the dates of meetings, who attended, the matters discussed, resolutions carried and defeated, and reports from various committees and sub-committees, and 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, outward and inward correspondence, recommendations from Council committees and reports by Council officers, petitions, questions with notice, orders of the day or general business, and questions without notice. In order to discuss confidential business, Council could form itself into the Committee of the Whole during a meeting. A Committee of the Whole was not required to make its business public through the minutes, only its recommendations.The minutes of each meeting of Council and its committees were confirmed at the following meeting and signed by the chairman to guarantee that they were a true and accurate record.Bound into volumes, from 1950 to 1980 the minutes are foolscap in size, secured in linen covered boards with metal pins, and from 1980 to 1986 with A4 paper secured in linen covered boards with metal pins. From 1986, the minutes were bound into cloth covers using A4 paper.本数据集收录马里克维尔市政委员会（Marrickville Municipal Council）的常规全体会议与特别（临时）会议纪要。该批纪要簿依据1858年《市政法》（22 Vic No.13）第67条及后续相关立法编制而成。 常规全体会议用于处理日常事务，属法定定期召开的例行会议。特别会议可由市长或两名议员提议召开，专门处理特定紧急事务。与对应议题相关的报告，也会在这类特别会议及常规全体会议上被提交审议。 会议纪要记录了会议召开日期、出席人员、讨论事项、通过与否决的决议，以及各委员会及小组委员会提交的报告，完整记载了委员会在会议中作出的各项决策。纪要通常包含以下板块：委员会成员出席情况、上次会议纪要的确认程序、内外往来函件、委员会提案与市政官员提交的报告、请愿书、已预告质询事项、当日议程或常规事务，以及未预告质询事项。 为讨论机密事务，委员会可在会议期间改组为全体委员会（Committee of the Whole）。全体委员会无需将会议全程记录在纪要中，仅需将其提案纳入纪要。 委员会及其各委员会的历次会议纪要均需在后续会议上审议确认，并由会议主席签署，以确保其内容真实准确。 该批纪要已装订成册：1950年至1980年的纪要采用大裁纸（foolscap）幅面，以亚麻布覆面硬封皮搭配金属插销装订；1980年至1986年的纪要采用A4纸幅，同样以亚麻布覆面硬封皮搭配金属插销装订；1986年起，纪要均采用A4纸幅，以布面装帧。