Sonoma County Board of Supervisors records
Scope and Contents
Official records generated or commissioned by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. Includes official reports, minutes, petitions, registers, etc.
The core of this collection (67 boxes) was described no. 592 as part of the Records of the Clerk as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors in the 1980 Inventory of the Clerk of Sonoma County, with the following contnts:
Inactive administrative files of Board of Supervisors. Files of 1854-1930 are divided both by subject and by varying dates, so that the same kind of documents are found among a number of storage boxes. Files of 1930-1974 follow the alphabetical and subject arrangement of (Administrative Files--Board of Supervisors) (591) from which they have been transferred for storage. Some records correspond to documents listed in Records of the Clerk as County Clerk in this inventory. Searchers should consult the typewritten index in the Board of Supervisors Filing Room which duplicates the labels on the storage boxes. Some labels, however, are not accurate and others are incomplete.
A selection of the most extensive documents, 1854-1930 includes: Indigent petitions 1876, 1879-1918; Investigations of indigents 1916; Report of Social Service Commission 1918-1929; Report of County Health Nurse 1920-1921; Report of County Hospital and Farm 1878, 1883, 1885, 1887-1929; Annual Report of County Health Officer 1902-1929; Monthly report of prisoners in County Jail 1895-1929, 1932, 1933; Road petitions 1854-1927, for Analy, Bodega, Cloverdale, Fulton, Knight's Valley, Mendocino, Ocean, Petaluma, Redwood, Russian River, Salt Point, Santa Rosa, Sonoma, Vallejo and Washington Townships or Road Districts; Report of Road Master and Report of Road Commissioner, by road district, 1866, 1872-1895, 1893-1894, 1895, 1896, 1897-1904, 1899-1905; Road matters 1854-1907, 1871- 1909, 1900-1922; 1913-1927; including viewer's reports, petitions, plans and specifications; petitions for abandonments 1861-1927, 1892; bridges 1908-1923; road construction 1918-1923; Road Overseers' reports for various road districts, 1854-1868, 1856, 1866-1873, 1873-1877, 1880, 1883-1888, 1888-1894; Clerk's Memorandum for payment of charges to Indigent, General and Road funds, 1897-1909, 1914-1917; Auditor's Report 1883-1886, 1889- 1925; Treasurer's Report and Road District Balance 1902-1927; Inventory of County Property 1887-1916, 1922, 1924; Justice of the Peace reports 1882-1916; Coroner's Report 1885-1908; Reports of Horticultural Commissioner 1889-1928; Annual report of Trustees of Law Library 1899, 1900, 1903; Reports of County Surveyor and County Engineer 1885, 1907, 1916-1926; Report on County Automobiles 1916-1918; Bids and requisitions for supplies and services 1872-1918; Agreements, contracts, leases and bonds 1898-1925; deeds 1888-1896; Bids for courthouse 1907-1909; Claims paid or rejected 1862-1924; Franchise matters 1897-1926; Pound matters 1876-1924; Mosquito Abatement District 1912-1917; Reclamation District 1922-1924; Drainage 1893-1916; Advertising of Sonoma County 1891-1922; Petitions for school-district formation, boundary changes, annexations, and tax protests 1855-1926; School census by district 1887-1906; School bonds and tax elections 1890-1926; Petitions concerning: Election precincts, township and road-district boundaries, Appointments to County positions, 1855-1930; To disinter remains 1890-1905; To establish a free library 1916; For and against liquor licenses 1899-1918; and many other petition matters; Court orders to draw trial jurors 1881-1926, and to empanel Grand Jurors 1882-1925; Tax and licensing matters 1882-1926; Ordinance Nos. 10-50; Name lists of firemen 1885, 1890, 1929, and National Guard 1890.
Documents after 1930 are alphabetical and subject files, divided roughly 1927-1957, 1957-1964, 1960-1972, and 1969-1974. Subjects include Abandonments, School bonds, Treasurer's reports, Agreements, Hospital matters, Buildings, Boundary Commission, Bridges, Grand Jury reports, Trial jurors, Indigents, Board of Equalization, Contracts, Claims, Insurance, Ordinances, School districts, Fairgrounds, Social Service Department, Leases, Road matters, Deeds, Flood Control and Water Conservation District, Special districts and elections in special districts, Reports of county departments, Petitions, Bids and specifications, Easements, Audit reports, Subdivision matters, and County and state agencies. Arranged by subject, then chronologically by month or year.
Dates
- Creation: 1845-2015
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access:
Materials stored offsite, but collection is open to research. In many cases, further details on individual volumes can be found by calling staff at the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library. To view these materials, please call staff at link to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library
Conditions Governing Use
Collection does not circulate and may be photocopied or photographed by arrangement only.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the Sonoma County Library. The Sonoma County Library has made this collection available and believes that the collection is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Collection may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and reuse information at link
Extent
513 linear feet (587 document storage cartons; 16.25" x 13" x 10.5")
50 linear feet (206 volumes; 13" x 2.5" x 17.5" (average))
Abstract
This collection contains official records created or commissioned by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, including records of special districts in Sonoma County. Some records jointly created by the Sonoma County Administrator's Office.
Arrangement of Materials:
Arranged into series:
Series originating from the Board of Supervisors (BDSU)
- Advisory board files (BDSU-0010)
- Assessment Appeals Board--minutes (BDSU-0060)
- Background information files (BDSU-0100)
- Appeals (BDSU-0130)
- Budget and fee hearings (BDSU-0230)
- City Selection Committee (BDSU-0240)
- Contracts and agreements (BDSU-0270)
- Districts (BDSU-0280)
- Elections (BDSU-0300)
- Indexes (BDSU-0320)
- Indigents BDSU-0330)
- Memoranda of understanding (BDSU-0350)
- Permits and licenses (BDSU-0440)
- Petitions (BDSU-0450)
- Land use issues and hearings (BDSU-0460)
- Real property--acquired, exchanged, purchased and sold (BDSU-0490)
- Reports and plans--official (BDSU-0510)
- Miscellaneous road matters (BDSU-0520)
- School district files (BDSU-0530)
- Zoning files (BDSU-0610)
- Subdivision files (BDSU-0620)
- Budgets--final (BDSU-0640)
- Board of Supervisors--Board actions (BDSU-0940)
- Contracts and agreements (BDSU-0950)
- Board of Supervisors--minutes (BDSU-0991)
- Construction files (BDSU-1000)
- Audit reports (CAAR-0020)
- Construction files (CAAR-0260)
- Liability claims (CAAR-0350)
Materials Specific Details
Materials are a mix of handwritten, typed, SPF-handwritten and SPF-typed.
Geographic
- Rohnert Park (Calif.) -- Politics and government
- Sonoma County (Calif.) -- Appropriations and expenditures
- Sonoma County (Calif.) -- Maps
- Sonoma County (Calif.) -- Officials and employees
- Sonoma County (Calif.) -- Politics and government
- Sonoma County (Calif.) -- Politics and government
- Sonoma County (Calif.) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Sonoma County (Calif.) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Topical
- Advisory boards -- California -- Sonoma County
- Advisory boards -- California -- Sonoma County
- Bridges -- California -- Sonoma County
- Bridges -- California -- Sonoma County
- Budget -- California -- Sonoma County
- Budget -- California -- Sonoma County
- Business enterprises -- California -- Sonoma County
- Business enterprises -- California -- Sonoma County
- Cemeteries -- California -- Sonoma County
- Cemeteries -- California -- Sonoma County
- Child welfare -- California -- Sonoma County
- Child welfare -- California -- Sonoma County
- City planning -- California -- Sonoma County
- City planning -- California -- Sonoma County
- Conflict of interests -- California -- Sonoma County
- Conflict of interests -- California -- Sonoma County
- Contracts -- California -- Sonoma County
- Contracts -- California -- Sonoma County
- Education -- California -- Sonoma County
- Education -- California -- Sonoma County
- Fire protection districts -- California -- Sonoma County
- Fire protection districts -- California -- Sonoma County
- Flood control -- California -- Sonoma County
- Flood control -- California -- Sonoma County
- Government liability -- California -- Sonoma County
- Government liability -- California -- Sonoma County
- Government property -- California -- Sonoma County
- Government property -- California -- Sonoma County
- Government purchasing of Real property -- California -- Sonoma County
- Government purchasing of real property -- California -- Sonoma County
- Government sale of Real property -- California -- Sonoma County
- Government sale of real property -- California -- Sonoma County
- Hospitals -- California -- Sonoma County
- Hospitals -- California -- Sonoma County
- Jails -- California -- Sonoma County
- Jails -- California -- Sonoma County
- Labor contract -- California -- Sonoma County
- Labor contract -- California -- Sonoma County
- Land subdivision -- California -- Sonoma County
- Land subdivision -- California -- Sonoma County
- Land use -- California -- Sonoma County
- Land use -- California -- Sonoma County
- Leases -- California -- Sonoma County
- Leases -- California -- Sonoma County
- Licenses -- California -- Sonoma County
- Licenses -- California -- Sonoma County
- Mosquitoes -- Control -- California -- Sonoma County
- Mosquitoes -- Control -- California -- Sonoma County
- Orphans -- California -- Sonoma County
- Orphans -- California -- Sonoma County
- Prisoners -- California -- Sonoma County
- Prisoners -- California -- Sonoma County
- Public servitudes -- California -- Sonoma County
- Public servitudes -- California -- Sonoma County
- Public welfare -- California -- Sonoma County
- Public welfare -- California -- Sonoma County
- Public works -- California -- Sonoma County
- Public works -- California -- Sonoma County
- Real property -- California -- Sonoma County
- Real property -- California -- Sonoma County
- records retention -- California -- Sonoma County
- Records retention -- California -- Sonoma County
- Recreation areas -- California -- Sonoma County
- Recreation areas -- California -- Sonoma County
- Registers of births, etc. -- California -- Sonoma County
- Registers of births, etc. -- California -- Sonoma County
- Right of way -- California -- Sonoma County
- Right of way -- California -- Sonoma County
- Roads -- California -- Sonoma County
- Roads -- California -- Sonoma County
- School districts -- California -- Sonoma County -- Appropriations and expenditure
- School districts -- California -- Sonoma County -- Appropriations and expenditure
- School districts -- California -- Sonoma County -- Records and correspondence
- School districts -- California -- Sonoma County -- Records and correspondence
- Schools -- California -- Sonoma County
- Schools -- California -- Sonoma County
- Soil conservation -- California -- Sonoma County
- Soil conservation -- California -- Sonoma County
- Special districts -- California -- Rohnert Park
- Special districts -- California -- Rohnert Park
- Special districts -- California -- Sonoma County
- Special districts -- California -- Sonoma County
- Storm sewers -- California -- Sonoma County
- Storm sewers -- California -- Sonoma County
- Street lighting -- California -- Sonoma County
- Street lighting -- California -- Sonoma County
- Veterans -- California -- Sonoma County
- Veterans -- California -- Sonoma County
- Welfare recipients -- California -- Sonoma County
- Welfare recipients -- California -- Sonoma County
- Zoning -- California -- Sonoma County
- Zoning -- California -- Sonoma County
- Title
- Sonoma County Board of Supervisors records, 1845-2015
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Geoffrey Skinner
- Date
- 2024 March 5
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in:English
Repository Details
Part of the Sonoma County Archives Repository