Finance Committee

Identity area

Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

Finance Committee

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Finance Committee; 1836-1960

    Other form(s) of name

    • Finance and General Purposes Committee (1960-1971)

    Identifiers for corporate bodies

    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1836-1960

    History

    Founded 1836, at a meeting of full council on 8th February 1836 "for managing the property and finances of the Corporation". Before this time the General Committee covered financial matters. The committee name was changed in 1960 to better reflect its wider function.
    Function carried out previously within the General Committee. Changed name to Finance and General Purposes Committee in 1960

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    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    Originally dealt with city finance (including rents and salaries) in detail but by the early twentieth century it signed off the estimates and expediture of other committees. It was also a general purpose committee, covering other topics such as licensing and issues not covered by existing committees.

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    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Founded 1836, at a meeting of full council on 8th February 1836 "for managing the property and finances of the Corporation". Before this time the General Committee covered financial matters. The committee name was changed in 1960 to better reflect its wider function.

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Finance and General Purposes Committee (1960-1971)

    Identifier of related entity

    GB0192-56

    Category of relationship

    temporal

    Type of relationship

    Finance and General Purposes Committee is the successor of Finance Committee

    Dates of relationship

    Description of relationship

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    Control area

    Authority record identifier

    GB0192-55

    Institution identifier

    GB0192

    Rules and/or conventions used

    International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa

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        Sources

        JBM How York Governs Itself, BC 10/1

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