Box 1
Container
Contains 25 Results:
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, 1969, March – June
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Item 1 – Muscogee County-City of Columbus Charter Commission legislation, approved March 21, 1968 Item 2 – Voting tabulations for Amendment # 106 which created the Charter Commission to study Consolidation, May?, 1969 Item 3 – Letter from Ben. W. Fortson, Jr., Secretary of State of the State of Georgia to Dr. Thomas Whitley concerning Act # 483 (H.B. # 541) which was approved by the Governor on April 25, 1969. This Act concerns the Muscogee County Charter...
Dates:
Other: 1969, March – June
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, 1969, June
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Item 1 – Letter from Martelle Layfield to Thomas Whitley. Attached is a copy of a letter from Jim Burgess in which several suggestions for the Commission are offered, July 2, 1969 Item 2 – Letter from Thomas Whitley to the civic and professional organizations in the community informing them that speakers providing advice, guidance, and information about consolidation, will be available for their programs upon request between Oct. 15 and Nov. 30, July [5?], 1969 ...
Dates:
Other: 1969, June
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, 1969, August 1-13
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Item 1 – Leaflet urging community input into the proposed consolidated government, early August, 1969 Item 2 – Letter from Dr. Whitley to 72 selected civic and professional organizations listed in the directory of the Columbus chamber of Commerce offering speakers on the topic of the proposed governmental consolidations to their groups, August 1, 1969 Item 3 – Announcement of the August 7th Charter Council meeting, August 4, 1969 Item 4 – Memorandum...
Dates:
Other: 1969, August 1-13
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, 1969, August 14-31
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Item 1 – Governmental Finances – Committee Report (with draft attached), August 14, 1969 Item 2 – A letter from J. Gordon Young to Messrs. A .J. Land, Walter Owens, Howell Hollis, Forrest Champion, Marion Page, and J. Norman Pease, the sub-committee on courts, August 14, 1969 Item 3 – Letter from J. Gordon Young to A .J. Land, August 14, 1969 Item 4 – Letter from Whitley to Ellis Swint (Includes letters from City Clerk, dated July 1, 1969, August 11,...
Dates:
Other: 1969, August 14-31
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, 1969, September
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Item 1 – Letter from Martelle Layfield to W .B. Turner, September 2, 1969 Item 2 – September 2, 1969 – Letter from W. E. Hudson to Dr. Whitley with a thank you letter from Whitley to Hudson attached, September 2, 1969 Item 3 -- Letter from Whitley to Mr. W .J. Wright acknowledging receipt of two checks. Attached is a memorandum invoice from Public Research and Management, Inc., September 2, 1969 Item 4 – Letter from Whitley to Paul J. Bradley...
Dates:
Other: 1969, September
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, 1969, October
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Item 1 – Columbus-Muscogee County Charter Commission – Minutes, Oct. 2, 1969
The questions used in the rehearsal for the upcoming public meeting are attached to the minutes. Item 2 -- Presumably Whitley's personal notes taken at Charter Commission's meeting on Oct. 2, 1969. Attached is an outline for the Public Hearing (dated Oct. 9), rules for the first Public Hearing, and a list of questions at the dress rehearsal for the Public Hearing, October 9, 1969 ...
Dates:
Other: 1969, October
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, 1969, November,
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Item 1 – Letter from Thomas Whitley to T.E. Miller acknowledging and thanking him for his attached letter of October 30th, November 3, 1969 Item 2 – Letter from B.D. Hydrick to Rupert A. Triplitt, November 4, 1969 Item 3 – Letter from Whitley to W.J. Wright concerning the city and county pension plans. Attached are copies of the April 1967 city pension plan and the 1945 County pension plan, November 6, 1969 Item 4 – Notice of meeting for Charter...
Dates:
Other: 1969, November,
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, 1969, December
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Item 1 – Letter from Albert W. Stubbs to Nolan Murrah, Jr. concerning the electoral procedures for the consolidated government, December 3, 1969 Item 2 – Letter from Steve Knight, County Commissioner to the Charter Commission regarding the number of members on the board of the proposed consolidated government, December 3, 1969 Item 3 – Letter from Thomas Whitley to Paul J. Bradley, attached is a letter from Paul J. Bradley to the Charter Commission (dated November...
Dates:
Other: 1969, December
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, Newspaper Clippings, 1970
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection was formed by Dr. Thomas Y. Whitley, who was the president of Columbus College and the head of the commission which planned the consolidation of the Columbus, Georgia city and the Muscogee County governments. It includes the proposal for consolidation, various drafts of the Consolidated Government charter, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, correspondence and other Commission records. This collection contains a detailed look at how a major governmental reorganization...
Dates:
Other: 1970
Muscogee County Charter Commission File, 1970, January
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Item 1 – Invoice from James Burgess for professional services rendered for the month of December, January 2, 1970 Item 2 – Memorandum to the news media for Ellis Swint, attaching a draft of the news release and a diagram of the proposed organization for the consolidated government, January 2, 1970 Item 3 -- Item 7 – Columbus-Muscogee County Charter Commission – Minutes, January 6, 1970 Item 4 – Letter from Robert Castellani, Assistant Attorney General...
Dates:
Other: 1970, January