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Archival copies of 1939, 1976 Daily Camera articles, and a 1974 brochure on the council-manager form of city government.

Documents collected by Clair V. Mann related to the movement for a Charter form of government in Boulder, Colorado. Collection also includes a biography of Mann and his wife Bonita (Hunt) and engineering articles written by Mann.

This folder contains newspaper articles about Amendment 1 to the Constitution of the State of Colorado. The clippings were compiled by the Reference Staff at the Boulder Public Library.

David Grimm was, in many ways, the voice of Boulder in the 1970s and 1980s: first through his radio work on KBOL and KGNU, and later through his decade-long position as Communications Director for the City of Boulder. In this entertaining and enlightening interview David Grimm brings the Boulder of those decades alive through the recounting of many irreverent and telling anecdotes of those lively years, including stories about politics in Boulder, environmentalism in Boulder, the Boulder-Dushanbe Teahouse, the construction of the Pearl Street Mall, the Halloween Mall Crawl, and various famous people who visited Boulder over the years.

This folder contains archivally photocopied copies of city ordinances approved by Boulder City Council between 1905 and 1907. Also, several related printed items.

This folder contains newspaper articles about Amendment 2 to the Constitution of the State of Colorado. The clippings were compiled by the Reference Staff at the Boulder Public Library.

In this program produced by Channel 8 TV, former Boulder City Council member, Janet Roberts, and former council member and mayor, Ruth Correll, talk about their cutting-edge roles as women active in politics in Boulder, particularly during the 1950s through 1970s. Roberts credits the League of Women Voters for arousing her interest in politics and giving her the skills to become only the fourth woman on the Boulder City Council. They discuss issues on which they worked that remain relevant, especially the issues of affordable housing and growth management. They also comment on the relative lack of corruption in Boulder politics compared to that in some eastern cities, and the openness of Boulder to citizen participation. The program also includes commentary by Linda Jourgensen, another former Boulder mayor.

Archivally photocopied newspaper clippings about Boulder residents opinion polls, 1969-1979, and a 9-page report of an interview survey conducted in Feb.-Mar. 1974 by University of Colorado psychology students.

Photograph of F. C. Moys, elected twenty-sixth mayor of Boulder in January 1918.

Folder 45 contains 2 copies of the city charter as framed and proposed by the Charter Convention (37 p. each). One of the booklets, stamped #36, is inscribed inside the front cover to Louis Herman, with the signatures of 3 officials of the Charter Convention. The other copy is lacking a cover. Folder 46 contains 8 pages of typed revisions to the 1917 charter.

Leslie Durgin served as a city council member and mayor of Boulder between 1989-1997. She was mayor during the building of the new NOAA/NIST facility, the JonBenét Ramsey murder, and the creation of the Youth Advisory Board. She discusses her interest in health and human services and her desire to give a voice to underrepresented groups in Boulder. She talks about the controversy surrounding her appointment, how she viewed the role of the mayor and the operation of the city government, and how these things have changed over the years. She reflects on her years of service, the issues with which the city council dealt during her tenure, and commenting on her best decisions and achievments.

This collection is a photographic record of Boulder's City and County Government contained in 14 boxes. Only Box 1 (early fire department) is fully arranged and cataloged. The remaining boxes contain images of the City Council, elections, municipal court, bootlegging, crime, later fires and fire department, Parks and Recreation Department, Police and crime, utilities, reservoirs, Boulder County Fair (1929-1979), Assessor, Clerk Commissioners, Roads, Social Services, and Treasurer.