All personnel actions are recorded, by individual name, for county employees from Neighborhood Youth Corps workers to auditor. Such actions include appointments, hourly or salaried wage increases, requests for car allowances or to use county vehicles, and requests for funds to attend conferences. Requisitions, bid proposals, and apportionments are similarly detailed covering everything from needles and thread for the senior citizens' center, to a single file cabinet for the license department, to vehicles for the sheriff's department, to pipe and road base for major road department construction. By the 1950s, details on zoning changes, layout, and improvements on particular subdivision developments assume a major place in the minutes. Volumes and their entries are chronological.
Indices are chronological with alphabetized entries.
The county commission also kept files of correspondence. Further, while the minute books summarize the meetings of the commission, many other county agencies recorded the particulars. Listings under Salt Lake County should be consulted for such things as ordinance books and tax lists. The assessor also compiled tax lists. The auditor has listings of appropriations of various funds.