In 1990 the Arts Council board was restructured. The Board of Directors was restructured into a Board of Trustees and an Arts Advisory Board. The Board of Trustees was the governing board and contained representatives from the community, the Arts Advisory Board, Festival of the Arts and city and county commissions. The Arts Advisory Board consisted of representatives of each of the arts organizations that were members of the Arts Council. The Advisory Board met with the Board of Trustees regularly and had a voice in governing matters but not a vote.

The minutes for these two bodies were sometimes kept separately and sometimes together. The board minutes were originally found in three-ring binders. They are arranged chronologically, with the folder titles reflecting the binder titles. Some of the board minutes include financials or profit and loss statements. When these were found separate from the board minutes they were put in the funding series.

The early minutes are valuable in showing how the Arts Council formed and how Festival of the Arts was started. The minutes date to the first meeting of the “committee to form a Community Arts Council” on January 4, 1967. Later minutes reflect the operations and challenges of the organization.