Records of the activities and proceedings of the Blue-Ribbon Commission (or, the Kettl Commission) from its inception in April 2000 through its dissolution upon the completion and release of its Final Report in early January 2001. The records were either scanned and placed directly onto a web site established for that purpose, or were transferred to the site by Dr. Don Kettl, the Commission chair, during or after Commission proceedings; as a result, all paper records in the series are printouts from the records on the site. The majority of the records consist of the materials from each Commission meeting: agendas, meeting minutes, PowerPoint presentations made during meetings, submitted statements, sign-in sheets, and documentation on various issues being studied by the Commission. Other records include press coverage of the Commission and its deliberations as well as issue papers. The compact disc included in the series contains a stored version of the Commission web site.
Material that was not printed and retained in paper copy form include: items available or originally produced in a published form; documentation that is tangential or very indirectly related to the activities of the Commission; material only available in audio or streaming video format; and a few documents that for technical reasons were unable to be printed. Researchers will be able to identify these missing documents by the contents pages for each site section.
