Box 1: Materials about and by Janet S. Roberts, including: honors received, 1977-1979; letters to and by Roberts; opinions and speeches; Roberts' support for other political candidates; and materials relating to Roberts' 1966 and 1968 campaigns for Colorado state representative (including a campaign notebook, newspaper clippings album and ledger).
Boxes 2-7 include documents and newspaper clippings on alphabetical topics:
Box 2: abortion; affordable housing; agricultural land preservation; Area III Study and Planning; bicycles; billboards; Blue Line; Boulder city planning timeline, 1858-1986; Boulder Community Hospital; Boulder Human Rights Manual; Boulder Neighborhood League; Boulder Program--Community or Conflict, 1969-1970; Boulder Public Library; Boulder Square (9th and Canyon); Boulder Urban Renewal Authority (BURA); Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, 1970-1985; and Boulder's image and Building Permits, 1973-1985.
Box 3: Cable TV; Center for the Arts/Cultural Center for Boulder, 1975-1976; city council elections, districts vs. at-large; city council gag rule policy, 1976; city council legal issues; city council relationship with city boards; city council residency requirements, 1973; city council rules of procedure, 1972-1976; city council secretary, upgrade controversy, 1975; city manager firing (Archie Twitchell), 1976; city manager hiring, 1976, April-August; and City Mayor and Deputy Mayor resignation petition (Mayor Frank Buchanan and Deputy Mayor Robert Trenka), 1976, April-June.
Box 4: Colorado Humanities Program, 1977-1979; Community Free School Publication; community goals, 1967-1975; CU Flatirons Property, 1996; Danish plan; ditches; Downtown Boulder Plan, 1982-1991; energy/solar; floods; fluoridation, 1964; Fourmile Canyon proposed route to Granby, 1968; Gay Writer's Coalition, 1974 (?); and Goss-Grove neighborhood.
Box 5: growth and growth management, 1971-2001; Guideline (Mental Health Center); and Gunbarrel.
Box 6: High-rise controversy, 1970; historic preservation; hospice; human relations commission, 1964-1973; Integrated Planning Project (IPP); leisure behavior, patterns and opinions of Boulder residents, 1974; manage equality, 1975; Master Plan criteria, 1994; National Organization for Women; neighborhood planning, 1977; NIST property development, 1990-1996; park advisory committee, 1958; parks and open space; PLAN Boulder; Police scandal, 1961; and Public Design Review committee, 1977.
Box 7: referendum law, 1960-1963; sales tax proposal, 1964; sewer and water, 1965; Strategic Planning Project, 1993; Task Force on Women and Child Care, 1974; transportation; Trash Removal and Compost Plan, 1964-1966; urban development, 1972-1981; water bond issue, 1961; water expansion election, 1967; water surplus, 1987; and Women of the West (Advisory Committee, in the news, promotional materials, and Janet Roberts correspondence).
Boxes 8-10 include documents and newspaper clippings related to elections by year:
Box 8: elections 1961-1979, including: 1974 City Council member recall of Tim Fuller and Penfield Tate, 1974 Sexual Preference Ordinance and 1975 Sunshine Law.
Box 9: elections 1980-1987, including: 1985 Boulder Cultural Center tax increase proposal, 1985 downsizing proposal, 1985 recall petition for County Commissioners Josie Heath and Ron Stewart newspaper clippings, 1986-1988 Conda Mine suit, 1986 Boulder Open Space charter amendment, 1987 gay rights issue, 1987 sales tax and library earmarking, 1987 Shaping Boulder's Future workshop, 1987 Vested Property Rights (SB219) and May and November 1989 Open Space tax election.
Box 10: elections 1990-2004, including: 1996 Matthew Appelbaum resignation from city council, 1996 open space, 1996-1997 rezoning proposal and 1997 City Manager Tim Honey resignation.
Box 11: documents and clippings collected by Janet Roberts about other political candidates including: Albert Bartlett, Ruth Correll, Paul Danish, Leslie Durgin, Josie Heath, James G. Johnson, Linda Jourgensen, Robert McFarland, Homer Page, David Skaggs, Ron Stewart, Penfield Tate, Robert Westdyke, William O. Winter, Tim Wirth and Ruth Wright, 1968 State Representative candidates and city council members of the past newspaper clippings from 1977 (includes Bly Ewalt Curtis, George Bernzen, Harold Copeland, Don McInnes and Tom Waugh).
Box 12: photographs (ca. 1960-1968) including portraits of Janet Roberts, Janet Roberts and her husband Walter Orr Roberts and their children, promotional photos from 1966 and 1968 State Representative campaigns, and other miscellaneous photos of Janet Roberts at work.