Governor's Office. Emergency Relief Administration State Advisory Committee on Public Welfare and Emergency Relief minutes, 1933-1935.

These minutes document all meetings of the State Advisory Committee on Public Welfare and Emergency Relief. Governor H. H. Blood appointed this committee to assist the Utah Emergency Relief Administration (UERA) in obtaining and disbursing federal emergency relief grants to Utah's county relief agencies between June 1933 and March 1935. This committee continued the functions of the Governor's Executive Committee on Emergency Relief for Utah only in accordance with the provisions required by President Franklin Roosevelt's newly created Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). The minutes record the committee's collaboration with county and municipal governments, and state and federal departments in the planning and administration of public works and unemployment relief programs, including the review of all relief applications and surveys; allocation of funds; determination of policy; review of administrative appointments; report of state relief receipts and expenditures; andreview and approval of all work relief and public works programs. Members of the State Advisory Committee served jointly as federal administrators for the Civil Works Administration (CWA) in Utah between November 19, 1933 and March 31, 1934. Consequently, a large portion of the minutes are devoted to CWA activities. These minutes provide a first-hand account of the social and economic conditions in Utah during the Great Depression and state and local governments' response to those conditions.