County Government Desk Reference
| Entrance to Westchester County Office Building, now the Michaelian Office Building, ca. 1930s [PJG 354a] |
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| Introduction |
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This
Desk Reference to Westchester County government results from the
hard work of a few members of the Westchester County Archives’
Volunteers in Archives (VIA) program, primarily Kyle Larson
and Ruth Neuwirth,
who worked on the first compilation during the early and mid-1990s, and
Ross Liemer, who updated and revised the Desk Reference during
the summer of 2004. The
intent of the Desk Reference is to provide quick access to both
historical and current information about the leadership of
departments and commissions that make up Westchester County’s
government, as well as some information about how various
departments have changed over the years. Due
to gaps in the documentary records used to compile the Desk
Reference, as well as limited volunteer time to track down some
of the more elusive facts, there is some information missing
from it, particularly when it comes to the establishment
dates for some departments, and the names of board or commission
members, and other details we would have liked to include.
When such information was not able to be located, it is
so noted. We
welcome any assistance in filling in missing information,
whether it be a handwritten list of names of board members for a
given year, or a copy of a publication that we could add to our
collection that provides the list of names. We hope that you will find this Desk Reference a useful tool. The Westchester County Archives, as the central repository for the county's historic public records, holds additional records that can be used to further study the history and work of the county government. For more information on the records that are available, consult the Guide to the Collections or the Archives Reference Staff.
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