Records consist of proceedings, correspondence, publication and miscellaneous one folder
files of individual officers, committees, organizations and workshops. The bulk of the
records consists of proceedings and publications. The proceedings, arranged chronologically,
are fairly complete and run from 1956 through 1969. The correspondence, separated into
incoming and outgoing correspondence, concerns environmental affairs, highways, zoning,
sewage management, soil conservation, grant applications, urban problems, legislation, and
the role of the planning commission. Arranged chronologically, it includes scattered
correspondence from 1955 and 1956 with a gap until 1964 and then running through 1971.
Publications, arranged by publication number, date from 1969 through 1972 with scattered
earlier reports and newsletters. The miscellaneous one folder files consist of
correspondence of Nick Jansen, the Secretary-Treasurer, 1956-1961; files of Donald Hagman,
chairman of the Education Committee, 1960-1962; audit reports, 1958-1962; files of the
Citizens Organization of Regional Planning, 1958-1966, an organization designed to establish
communication between the regional planning commission and Fox Valley civic leaders; files
of the Workshop on Planning, 1965, whose purpose was to inform high school and junior high
school teachers in the Fox Valley of regional planning; and a list of Planning Board
members, 1958-1966.
