AGENCY: Governor's Office. Emergency Relief Administration
SERIES: 2696
TITLE: State Advisory Committee on Public Welfare and Emergency Relief minutes
DATES: 1933-1935.
ARRANGEMENT:
DESCRIPTION: These minutes document all meetings of the State Advisory Committee on Public Welfare and Emergency Relief. Governor H. H. Blood appointed this committee to assist the Utah Emergency Relief Administration (UERA) in obtaining and disbursing federal emergency relief grants to Utah's county relief agencies between June 1933 and March 1935. This committee continued the functions of the Governor's Executive Committee on Emergency Relief for Utah only in accordance with the provisions required by President Franklin Roosevelt's newly created Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). The minutes record the committee's collaboration with county and municipal governments, and state and federal departments in the planning and administration of public works and unemployment relief programs, including the review of all relief applications and surveys; allocation of funds; determination of policy; review of administrative appointments; report of state relief receipts and expenditures; and review and approval of all work relief and public works programs. Members of the State Advisory Committee served jointly as federal administrators for the Civil Works Administration (CWA) in Utah between November 19, 1933 and March 31, 1934. Consequently, a large portion of the minutes are devoted to CWA activities. These minutes provide a first-hand account of the social and economic conditions in Utah during the Great Depression and state and local governments' response to those conditions.
RETENTION
DISPOSITION
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Open meeting minutes & supplementary materials, GRS-1709
AUTHORIZED: 08/06/2002
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
APPRAISAL
Historical
These records document the state's official response to the challenges of the Great Depression during the advent of F. Roosevelt's New Deal and therefore retain considerable historical value.
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Public