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Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council

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Archives Identifier00166Date Range1870-2022MandateLocal Government Act 2002Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA)DescriptionThe minutes of the full Council are a record of decisions reached on setting rates, authorising work undertaken within the city, correspondence with central government, dealing with ratepayers demands and complaints and the development of city infrastructure.

The minutes provide a legal framework for the operation of the Wellington City Council and underpin all other records kept. Meetings were run formally, with notices of motion moved, seconded and voted on. The minutes of meetings of the full Council are public documents, unless the meeting has formally gone into closed session. This series includes both minutes of public meetings and of the council in-committee.

Early Council minutes demonstrate a more detailed, hands-on approach to the management of the organisation servicing the councillors than later minutes.

Minutes may include copies of letters received or sent, reports of council officers and later of departments, summaries of committee reports, draft legislation and bylaws. Maps, plans and sketches of proposed developments were occasionally inserted, together with lists of named staff members, their salaries, proposed pay rises, details of service and occasionally disciplinary action. In the early part of the Council's existence, meetings and reports were extensively written up in the newspapers and these accounts are often pasted in.

In the 2016-2019 and 2019-2022 trienniums, the minutes of the full Council (not including the Public Excluded meetings) were not bound, they were left loose.

Starting in the 2022-2025 triennium, minutes were digitally signed and no longer existed as physical documents.
Quantity (Linear Metres)34.05MediumBound VolumeSystem of ArrangementConsists of minutes of meetings of the full Wellington City Council arranged in meeting date order and indexed within each volume by subject matter.
2016-2019 and 2019-2022 trienniums are unbound and arranged in meeting date order, no index exists.Collection TypeWellington City Council

Volume 102, REDACTED, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 5 Jun 1981 to 11 Nov 1981

Volume 98, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 14 May 1979 to 12 Sept 1979

Volume 97, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 15 Nov 1978 to 18 Apr 1979

Volume 96, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 9 June 1978 to 10 Nov 1978

Volume 95, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 3 Nov 1977 to 10 May 1978

Volume 94, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 6 May 1977 to 5 Oct 1977

Volume 93, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 5 Nov 1976 to 13 Apr 1977

Volume 92, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 11 Jun 1976 to 15 Oct 1976

Volume 91, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 5 Dec 1975 to 12 May 1976

Volume 90, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 11 Jun 1975 to 12 Nov 1975

Volume 89, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 11 Dec 1974 to 14 May 1975

Volume 11, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 12 Oct 1894 to 16 Jul 1896

Volume 88, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 12 June 1974 to 6 Dec 1974

Volume 87, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 12 Dec 1973 to 7 June 1974

Volume 86, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 7 May 1973 to 3 Dec 1973

Volume 85, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 15 Nov 1972 to 7 May 1973

Volume 84, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 17 May 1972 to 6 Nov 1972

Volume 83, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 29 Oct 1971 to 8 May 1972

Volume 82, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 4 June 1971 to 8 Oct 1971

Volume 81, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 2 Dec 1970 to 12 May 1971

Volume 80, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 29 May 1970 to 11 Nov 1970

Volume 79, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 1 Dec 1969 to 13 May 1970

Volume 10, Minutes of meetings of the Wellington City Council 18 Augt 1892 to 27 Sep 1894

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Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Council minutes, 24 February 2022 - 29 September 2022

Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Council minutes, 24 February 2021 - 15 December 2021

Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Council minutes, 26 February 2020 - 16 December 2020

Te Kaunihera o Pōneke | Council minutes, 27 February 2019 - 12 December 2019

Council minutes, 7 February 2018 - 12 December 2018

Council minutes, 26 October 2016 - 13 December 2017

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Wellington City Council Committee Minute Books

Wellington City Council Subcommittee Minute Books

Wellington City Council, In-Committee minutes (public excluded)

Wellington City Council Committee minutes, First Series [All committees]

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