Series 85015
Beaver (Utah) Council minutes
Dates: 1880-
15 microfilm reels
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Historical Note
An agency history is available.
Scope and Content
This series contains the minutes to meetings of the Beaver City Council. The City Council is the legislative and governing body of the city. It discusses and manages the business of the city. The Council has traditionally met in regular session two times each month, with special sessions called as needed (UCA 2002 10-3-502). Often in attendance at the meetings is the City Manager, while the City Recorder takes the minutes. The minutes, which are approved and signed by the mayor and city recorder, describe who is in attendance and issues discussed each time. In addition, later volumes have related documents such as correspondence, ordinance drafts, court files, bills and bids for city contracts filed with the relevant meeting's minutes.
As reflected in the meeting minutes, the City Council continually regulates several important matters in Beaver City from the last decades of the nineteenth century to today. It has issued licenses, especially for establishments serving liquor, monitored water rights, hired city officials, written and codified City Ordinances, provided increasing levels of services and overall sought to improve the city of Beaver. Each meeting called into session might deal with petitions on various issues, bills to be paid by the city, land deeds granted to individuals, reports from city departments or from specially created committees studying important issues, resolutions and ordinances drafted (perhaps in response to reports), tax rates and salaries. At the end of each fiscal year (at first in December than changing to the stateside model of June in the 1970s), a financial report of the previous year is prepared by the Recorder. In more recent years a full projected budget has also been prepared. For municipal elections, the City Council has been responsible for canvassing and certifying the results of the election. In the area of city improvement, the Council has often supported beautification projects suggested by various organizations, provided assistance for Eagle Scout projects and donated funds to numerous holiday celebrations over the years.
Access Restrictions
This series is designated as Public: UCA 52-4-7(3)(2008).
Reproduction and Use
These records are available for reproduction and use.
Finding Aids
Indexes: Subject indices are included at the beginning of several of the later volumes, covering from 1978.
Related Records
Codified ordinances from Beaver (Utah), Series 13139, often appeared as drafts in council minutes, in addition to being discussed by the council in their meetings.
Indexing Terms
Municipal government--Utah--Beaver.
Budget--Utah--Beaver.
Tax collection--Utah--Beaver.
City planning--Utah--Beaver
Licenses--Utah--Beaver.
Beaver (Utah)--Politics and government.
Beaver (Utah)--Appropriations and expenditures.
Beaver (Utah)--Officials and employees.
| REEL | DESCRIPTION |
| 1 | 1880, Dec 20-1916, Dec 8 |
| 2 | 1916, Dec 23-1932, Dec 13 |
| 3 | 1932, Dec 24-1935, Dec 6 |
| 4 | 1936, Jan 6-1948, Jan 5 |
| 5 | 1948, Jan 5-1980, Dec 16 |
| 6 | 1981, Jan 6-1982, Jun 15 |
| 7 | 1982, Jul 6-1983, Jun 21 |
| 8 | 1983, Jul 5-1984, Mar 6 |
| 9 | 1984, Mar 20-1987, Jun 16 |
| 10 | 1987, Jun 26-1991, Feb 5 |
| 11 | 1991, Jul 31-1992 May 5 |
| 12 | 1992, May 19-1995 Mar 21 |
| 13 | 1995, Apr 4-1999, Dec 9 |
| 14 | 1999, Oct 5-2001, Apr 12 |