This collection consists of: general correspondence of the Commission members; outgoing correspondence to local government study commissioners (with accompanying chronological index) and local and state officials; interoffice correspondence; financial records; hearings on finance, the legislation to establish local government study commissions, and the proposed code of local government law; minutes, which include numerous documents produced by the Commission; news releases; organizational records; subject files, including material concerning grants received by the Commission, research on the proposed code on local government, the study of the state assumption of social services, and the voter review of local government process. The latter includes general information concerning the dissemination of information about the process itself to the public, workshops and seminars, the procedures and progress of the process, and files on a large number of the local government study commissions which include correspondence, minutes, news releases, interviews, etc.

Files on local government study commissions containing only a few sheets have been consolidated and arranged in alphabetical order; larger files, such as that of Missoula/Missoula County, have been kept separate and filed after the entire alphabetical run. The record series also contains miscellany which includes the responses to a questionnaire sent to state agencies regarding their provision of services to local governments, a draft of service laws, and disposition charts.