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The collection documents the actions and activities of the Boise City Department of Arts & History including its administration, finances, events, projects, and programs. The records consist of correspondence, meeting minutes and materials, newspaper articles, architectural drawings, reports, surveys, promotional material, grant applications, artist submissions, and publications. The collection also contains photographic and audiovisual documentation of events.

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This collection contains a map, ordinance, charter, agreement, correspondence, proclamation, newspaper articles, and records related to the city's COVID pandemic response.

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This collection consists of aerial photographs, diagrams, maps, drawings, brochures, and schematics created and used by the Public Works Department.

Scope and Contents The collection documents the actions and activities of the Boise Fire Department including its administration, operations, union, and staff. The records consist of correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, agreements, plans, annual reports, newspaper articles, maps, position descriptions, employment examinations, policies and procedures, budget summaries, historical research and commemorative event documentation, oral histories, training manuals, union labor agreements, fundraising...

Abstract A conservation effort to preserve and protect the natural open space in the Boise Foothills by raising money through a two-year property tax known as the Foothills Serial Levy. The Levy was passed by 59% of Boise voters on May 22, 2001, raising $10 million for conservation efforts. The two-year levy in property taxes for commercial, residential, and industrial property was implemented in 2002 and 2003. The funds were managed by the Foothills Conservation Advisory Committee, a group of 12...

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This collection documents the activities of Gordon S. Bowen during his career at Boise Parks and Recreation Department. Also represented in the collection are research files compiled to aid in the compilation of two books. The collection includes annual reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, board minutes, service awards, slides, maps, and reports.

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The collection consists of correspondence, reports, studies, speeches, and memos related to Judge Mike Wetherell’s work as a member of the Boise City Council from 1986-2003, his work with non-profits including the Epilepsy Federation of America from 1981-1996, Idaho Epilepsy League from 1977-1983, and Friends of Capital City from 1985-1988. Also included in the collection are legal publications written by Judge Wetherell for the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association from 1989-2000.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of newspaper clippings, speeches, correspondence, reports, studies, court documents, and ephemera documenting Richard Eardley's tenure as a member of the Boise City Council from 1969-1973 and as Boise Mayor from 1974-1986. Notable issues documented in the collection includes policing, development of downtown, urban renewal, and affordable housing. Also included in the collection are original works of Darwin H. “Dar” Dodds documenting his imprisonment on Wake Island...

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This collection contains a brief biography of Russell E. Edlefsen, a 1953 speech Edlefsen gave at Bishop Kelly’s Episcopal Silver Jubilee, correspondence, photographs, awards, newspaper/magazine clippings, and five copies of Look magazine (January 24, 1967- April 4, 1967). There is also an oversize illustration drawn by John G. Collias in 1951 of Edlefsen and his family in honor of Edlefsen’s 45th birthday.