Cork City Council Whole Council Committee Minutes
TeidealCork City Council Whole Council Committee Minutes
TagairtCP/CO/WC/M
Dáta
1911-1924
Dáta táirgthe 1911 - 1924
Scóp agus InneacharThe present committee came into being in January 1907 when the Improvement Committee was reconstituted as a Committee of the Whole Council, under an Order of Council of 28 December 1906 stating that a committee of the whole Council is to sit on the last Friday of each month ‘for the purpose of authorising the issue of all orders to the Bank for the monthly advances to the Treasurer and payments to Contractors and others on the recommendation of the monthly Finance Committee, countersigned by the Town Clerk or Law Agent as a guarantee that such payments are legal and duly authorised’.
The first minutes of this Whole Council Committee (January 1906 – August 1907) are recorded in the final volume of minutes of the Improvement Committee [CP/CO/IM/M/005]. There is then a gap until the first first volume of the present series, which opens in January 1911, and it seems likely that the minutes for intervening years were lost. Earlier meetings of Committees of the Whole Council are recorded in Special Committee minute books [CP/CO/SP/M].
The first volume opens with a statement on the ‘Powers and Duties of Committee’, the meeting of 27 January 1911 being the first since the election of a new Council. The secretary explained ‘that the Committee was composed of all the members of the Council, of whom not less than five formed a quorum; that its meetings were fixed for the last Friday of each month at 2:45PM, for the purpose of authorising the issue of all orders to the Bank for the monthly advances to the Treasurer and payments to Contractors and others on the recommendation of the Law and Finance Committee, passed at their monthly meeting, such orders to the Bank to be signed by the presiding Chairman and countersigned by two members of the Council, the Town Clerk or Law Agent, and the City Treasurer. That the Lord Mayor, when present, shall preside at each meeting of the Committee, and, in his absence, the chair shall be taken at each subsequent meeting, in rotation, by a member in the order in which his name appears on the roll, after the name of the member who last occupied the chair’.
Each set of minutes contains an abstract of advice notes to the bank authorising payments, broken down by fund to be charged and paying order number. This is followed by a printed schedule of persons to whom cheques are payable, and nature of payment. Funds under which payments are made include the following: Borough; Cemetery; Sanitary; General Purposes; Waterworks; Improvement; and Sinking. Payments from various accounts are also noted, including the Poor Rate Account, the Improvement Capital Account, and the Sanitary Capital Account.
The Committee also considered tenders for general supplies on an annual basis, as referred to them by the Council. Meetings for this purposes from 1889 to March 1911 are recorded in Special Committee minutes. The present committee also heard suggestions for improvements and complaints regarding the city’s streets, railways, footpaths, lamp lights, public buildings, and water and sewer pipes, but usually referred such matters to the Public Works Committee. In this, the Committee continued the work formerly discharged by the Improvement Committee. A second or more meetings were usually held each month at which such matters were considered.
The present series provides an important record of the Council’s use and management of its finances, documenting payments under its various funds, for wages, materials, and works, and its annual tendering for general supplies. It also takes up where Improvement Committee minutes end, in noting applications by councillors for works, and related complaints. Such applications were generally referred to the Public Works Committee [CP/CO/PW/M]. As a Committee of the Whole Council, its minutes should be viewed in light of those of the full Council [CP/CO/M], and, in its financial aspect, those of the Law and Finance Committee [CP/CO/LF/M]. Its role in approving payments for virtually all of the Corporation funds means the present series is relevant to the work of all of the Council’s committees and Corporation departments at this time.
This series would appear to have been closed shortly before the Corporation was dissolved in 1924, a City Commissioner discharging the work of the Council from October 1924 to March 1929. A new ‘General Purposes Committee of the Whole Council’ first met on 16 April 1929. While this committee had responsibility for approving payments, having assumed that function from the earlier Whole Council Committee, its other functions were substantially different, and its minutes form a distinct series: CP/CO/GP/M.
The first minutes of this Whole Council Committee (January 1906 – August 1907) are recorded in the final volume of minutes of the Improvement Committee [CP/CO/IM/M/005]. There is then a gap until the first first volume of the present series, which opens in January 1911, and it seems likely that the minutes for intervening years were lost. Earlier meetings of Committees of the Whole Council are recorded in Special Committee minute books [CP/CO/SP/M].
The first volume opens with a statement on the ‘Powers and Duties of Committee’, the meeting of 27 January 1911 being the first since the election of a new Council. The secretary explained ‘that the Committee was composed of all the members of the Council, of whom not less than five formed a quorum; that its meetings were fixed for the last Friday of each month at 2:45PM, for the purpose of authorising the issue of all orders to the Bank for the monthly advances to the Treasurer and payments to Contractors and others on the recommendation of the Law and Finance Committee, passed at their monthly meeting, such orders to the Bank to be signed by the presiding Chairman and countersigned by two members of the Council, the Town Clerk or Law Agent, and the City Treasurer. That the Lord Mayor, when present, shall preside at each meeting of the Committee, and, in his absence, the chair shall be taken at each subsequent meeting, in rotation, by a member in the order in which his name appears on the roll, after the name of the member who last occupied the chair’.
Each set of minutes contains an abstract of advice notes to the bank authorising payments, broken down by fund to be charged and paying order number. This is followed by a printed schedule of persons to whom cheques are payable, and nature of payment. Funds under which payments are made include the following: Borough; Cemetery; Sanitary; General Purposes; Waterworks; Improvement; and Sinking. Payments from various accounts are also noted, including the Poor Rate Account, the Improvement Capital Account, and the Sanitary Capital Account.
The Committee also considered tenders for general supplies on an annual basis, as referred to them by the Council. Meetings for this purposes from 1889 to March 1911 are recorded in Special Committee minutes. The present committee also heard suggestions for improvements and complaints regarding the city’s streets, railways, footpaths, lamp lights, public buildings, and water and sewer pipes, but usually referred such matters to the Public Works Committee. In this, the Committee continued the work formerly discharged by the Improvement Committee. A second or more meetings were usually held each month at which such matters were considered.
The present series provides an important record of the Council’s use and management of its finances, documenting payments under its various funds, for wages, materials, and works, and its annual tendering for general supplies. It also takes up where Improvement Committee minutes end, in noting applications by councillors for works, and related complaints. Such applications were generally referred to the Public Works Committee [CP/CO/PW/M]. As a Committee of the Whole Council, its minutes should be viewed in light of those of the full Council [CP/CO/M], and, in its financial aspect, those of the Law and Finance Committee [CP/CO/LF/M]. Its role in approving payments for virtually all of the Corporation funds means the present series is relevant to the work of all of the Council’s committees and Corporation departments at this time.
This series would appear to have been closed shortly before the Corporation was dissolved in 1924, a City Commissioner discharging the work of the Council from October 1924 to March 1929. A new ‘General Purposes Committee of the Whole Council’ first met on 16 April 1929. While this committee had responsibility for approving payments, having assumed that function from the earlier Whole Council Committee, its other functions were substantially different, and its minutes form a distinct series: CP/CO/GP/M.
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