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Displaying 375 Finding Aids
Title
- Commission on Government Integrity typed and original transcripts of commission meeting minutes
Series Number
- 15825
Summary
- This series consists of the minutes of commission meetings and a minute book that also includes copies of subpoenas, affidavits of service, and advisory letters to the attorney general sent by the commission. The minutes document the development of policy for the identification of projects to be undertaken by staff and the process of decision-making relating to the commission's investigation into violations of ethical or legal standards of conduct by public officials and employees.
Creator
- New York (State). Commission on Government Integrity
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Civil Rights Law, Section 73.8, and other statutes. Public hearing transcripts, press releases, published material, and other records that have been previously available to the public are available without restriction. Access to other information is permitted only by permission of the commission or the Governor's office.
Title
- Moreland Commission on Welfare correspondence and subject files
Series Number
- 10991
Summary
- The commission's correspondence and subject files document citizen concern about public assistance programs and the examination of practices, procedures, and costs. Administrative files include budget data, studies, reports, minutes, transcripts, news clippings, and press releases. Correspondence, mostly routine, documents communication with the governor's office, public and private social welfare officers, civic groups, and citizens. Studies, reports, statistics, and articles contain information on public assistance, provided by social welfare organizations and experts in New York and other states.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Transportation
Access Restrictions
- All investigative materials in Moreland Act commission records are indefinitely restricted pursuant to Executive Law sect. 6 and 63.8 and Civil Rights Law sect. 73.8. Requests for access to such materials are referred to the Governor's Office.
Title
- Board of Railroad Commissioners minutes of meetings
Series Number
- B0296
Summary
- This series consists of original minutes of meetings of the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners. The minutes document recommendations and decisions made and actions taken by the board. Subjects dealt with by the minutes include complaints regarding discrimination in rates of freight; excessive passenger and freight rates; insufficient accommodations; dangerous crossings; violations of contracts; competition between railways and waterways; inspection of railways; investigation of accidents; promotion of safety procedures; and legislation to promote and regulate railways.
Creator
- New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Engrossed minutes and index
Series Number
- A1077
Summary
- The Commissioners of the Canal Fund managed both revenues and debts associated with the development of the state's canal system. Subjects documented in this series include disbursement of funds, stock purchases, redemption of canal stock by individual stock holders, and the Erie Canal enlargement fund. These are final minutes of the Rough Minutes in series A1076. Series B0316, Index to Minutes indexes this series from 1817-1854.
Creator
- New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Pulaski Central School District board of education meeting minutes
Series Number
- A4669
Creator
- Pulaski Central School District (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Boards of Visitors meeting minutes
Series Number
- B2324
Summary
- This series consists of Governor W. Averell Harriman's copies of meeting minutes from the various Boards of Visitors from state institutions. Also included are reports to the Boards of Visitors by the director or superintendent of the institution under the Board's care or reports of the Boards of Visitors to the Governor and the acknowledgement of their receipt.
Creator
- New York (State). Governor (1955-1958 : Harriman)
Access Restrictions
- Reports created by the Division for Youth are restricted in accordance with Executive Law, section 501-c(1)(b), relating to confidentiality of individuals in custody of the Division for Youth (now Office of Children and Family Services). Reports created by the Department of Mental Hygiene are restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records.
- Other records may be exempt from disclosure by New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) section 87.2(a).
Title
- New York State Library Office of the State Librarian/Assistant Commissioner for Libraries and Director of the Research Library subject, correspondence, and administrative files
Series Number
- 21184
Summary
- This series consists of the central office files of the State Librarian and the Director of the Research Library. They document the State Librarian's interaction with committees and organizations as well as oversight and day-to-day management of the Research Library and Division of Library Development 21195 including chartering; public library registration; State and federal aid administration; administration of family literacy programs; and oversight of the research programs, public services, and collections management activities of the Research Library.
Creator
- New York State Library. Office of the State Librarian/Assistant Commissioner for Libraries and Director of the Research Library
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Dutch Delaware River settlement administrative records
Series Number
- A1878
Summary
- This series contains letters, minutes, and other administrative documents, in Dutch, created by the West India Company during its struggle to dominate trade and establish trading posts on the South (Delaware) River. The records, generated in the Delaware region and sent to New Amsterdam, largely relate to Swedish activities in the region; the takeover of New Sweden in 1655 by the Dutch; and agreements and terms met during the struggle with Sweden for control over the region.
Creator
- New Netherland. Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Direction and supervision of facilities records
Series Number
- B2530
Summary
- This series consists of long range plans, correspondence, memorandums, minutes of mandated committees, reports, and Board of Visitors materials with regard to the operation of facilities for people with mental disabilities. Also included are surveys of some of the facilities.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Access Restrictions
- Series may contain restricted material. Consult reference archivist before use.
Title
- State University of New York Board of Trustees meeting files
Series Number
- B2901
Summary
- This series contains drafts of State University of New York Board of Trustees meeting minutes, memorandums, reports, meeting agendas, and supporting material pertaining to those agendas.
Creator
- State University of New York. Board of Trustees
Access Restrictions
- Access to this series is partially restrited. State Archives staff will review requests for specific records and disclose in accordance with the New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
Title
- Public hearing minutes
Series Number
- A3276
Summary
- This series consists of transcripts of public hearings conducted by the Milk Control Board in 1933. Members of the public who participated in the hearings included farmers, other milk producers, and milk distributors, with few consumers. The bulk of the hearings consider the fixing of minimum prices for milk at municipal, county, and state levels. Other subjects include the fluctuation of milk prices and applications for sales licenses.
Creator
- New York (State). Milk Control Board
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Assemblyman Maurice D. Hinchey issue files
Series Number
- L0006
Summary
- These files were compiled by staff of Assemblyman Maurice D. Hinchey. Topics include aid to education, energy, the Catskill Gateway project, and the construction of the North-South arterial in Kingston. Files contain correspondence, rough notes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, published reports, and meeting minutes. Also included are court and public and private hearing transcripts documenting the Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation's investigations of the involvement of organized crime in the waste disposal industry.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Assemblyman (1975-1992 : Maurice D. Hinchey)
Access Restrictions
- This series contains certain records to which access is restricted to protect personal privacy. State Archives staff will review requests for specific documents and disclose in accordance with New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
Title
- Jefferson-Youngsville Central School District school tax assessment rolls and school board meeting minutes
Series Number
- A4654
Summary
- Microfilmed records in this series include school board meeting minutes and hearing proceedings for Jefferson-Youngsville Central School District (1937-1997) and Jeffersonville Union Free School District (1928-1938), and record books of three predecessor common school districts (1857-1916).
Creator
- Jefferson-Youngsville Central School District (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Permanent Commission on Public Employee Pension and Retirement Systems meeting minutes
Series Number
- B1360
Summary
- The series consists of minutes of meetings of the 7-member commission from 1972 to 1990 (no meetings were held in 1991 and only letters canceling the scheduled meetings are present). The minutes were prepared during the meetings, elaborating on the proceedings and actions being taken, and documenting commission policies and decision making. From 1982 onward the records also include handwritten notes (perhaps made by acting Executive Director Astrid Horan) that provide additional information supplementing the minutes.
Creator
- New York (State). Permanent Commission on Public Employee Pension and Retirement Systems
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Commission of Appeals Clerk's minutes
Series Number
- J1212
Summary
- This series consists of minute books compiled by the clerk of the Commission of Appeals.
Creator
- New York (State). Commission of Appeals
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Urban Development Corporation Directors' meeting minutes
Series Number
- B2655
Summary
- This series consists of meeting minutes, agendas and reports of the directors of the Urban Development Corporation. The minutes include updates and resolutions by the body on various types of projects under its jurisdiction from across the state. These projects fall into several categories: industrial, residential, civic, land use improvement, new communities, and urban renewal. Projects of note include Roosevelt Island, Buffalo Road in Rochester, new communities projects in Radisson and Audubon, and industrial projects in New York City and Hudson.
Creator
- New York State Urban Development Corporation
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- General and special term minute books
Series Number
- J0130
Summary
- Minute books for 1797-1800 contain grand jury proceedings and minutes of trials and sentencing. The series also contains special rules or orders granted upon special motions, orders issued in real property proceedings, appointments of commissioners to screen candidates for attorney or counsellor in the Supreme Court, and general procedural rules.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Education Department Division of Archives and History transcriptions of New York Council minutes and Council papers
Series Number
- A3271
Summary
- This series consists of transcriptions of New York Council Minutes and New York Council Papers (also known as "Colonial Manuscripts"). Transcriptions of Council minutes (Series A1895) span the period 1712-1767; transcriptions of Council papers (Series A1894) span the period 1683-1755.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Division of Archives and History
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Judicial Records Disposition and Archives Development Project files
Series Number
- B2913
Summary
- This series contains files created and collected during the Judicial Records Disposition and Archives Development Project. Files include project guidelines and forms, interim reports and final report, meeting minutes, correspondence and memoranda, reports of court visits, records survey notes, summary statewide records inventory data, draft schedules, comments on schedule items, draft and final appraisal reports, and research materials. The latter include several pre-project unpublished reports on records management in the court system. About two-thirds of the records are draft records disposition schedules.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Court Administration
Access Restrictions
- Access to certain records in this series may be restricted pursuant to New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Section 87.2(g). Staff will review requests for specific records and disclose in accordance with FOIL.
Title
- Minutes of meetings of boards of visitors and monthly reports of institutions
Series Number
- B0645
Summary
- This series contains the department's copies of boards of visitors meetings minutes and monthly reports of superintendents and department heads at the following state institutions: Thomas Indian School; Woman's Relief Corps Home; State Agricultural and Industrial School; State Training School for Girls at Hudson; and State Training Schools for Boys at Highland, New Hampton, Otisville, and Warwick.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Social Welfare. Division of State Institutions
Access Restrictions
- Partially restricted in accordance with Executive Law, Section 501-c(1)(b), relating to confidentiality of individuals in custody of the Division for Youth (now Office of Children and Family Services).