Rehousing Board of Supervisors Materials for Long-Term Preservation of County History

FAIN: PG-263526-19

County of Yolo (Woodland, CA 95695-3448)
Mark Fink (Project Director: April 2018 to present)

The purchase of preservation supplies and the rehousing of Yolo County Board of Supervisors meeting records, comprising 540 linear feet.  Dating from 1850 to 2007, the materials document numerous issues and challenges confronted by one of California’s original 27 counties, located west/northwest of Sacramento, including transportation, agriculture, property and water rights, immigration, sanitation, recreation, commerce, education, and more. The collection provides insights into regional and local community life and local government decision-making as it has evolved since the county’s incorporation up to the present era.

This grant will support the refoldering and reboxing of a collection of 540 boxes of Yolo County Board of Supervisors meeting materials, which date back to the 1850s. This collection is integral to understanding the history and development of Yolo County and also provides windows onto the experiences of community members. The meeting materials document agreements, ordinances, appointments, etc. which often serve to illustrate larger concepts such as the employment of women, public programs, health services, the creation of public libraries and other county services, and water rights, among others. Volunteers will perform the work of processing this collection, which will include removing metal fasteners and rubber bands, transferring documents from their original folders into archival folders, labeling the folders with the accession number, record group number, collection name, and all information from the original folder label, and then moving those folders to new archival boxes.