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1986-1974 (Creation)
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- Richmond (B.C.). City Clerk's Office
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35 cm of textual records
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Administrative history
The City Clerk's Office is part of the Finance and Corporate Services Division and serves as a secretariat for Council and its Committees. It performs administrative functions including: agenda preparation recording of minutes, processing and certifying by-laws, record management and distribution of records, and making records available to the public.
The Clerk's Office is responsible for the preservation of all Council and Committee records, through a records management and archives system which documents the history of Richmond.
The City Clerk is also responsible for organizing and conducting City elections.
The City Clerk's Office is often the first stop for processing citizens' petitions, complaints and requests to Council, and also receives requests for information under the Freedom of Information & Protection of Privacy legislation.
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Scope and content
Series consists of minutes of meetings (and attachments) of the municipal Court of Revision for assessments. Series is arranged in two sub-series: 1) Court of Revision of the municipal assessment roll (1896-1972); and, 2) Court of Revision of assessments for Local Improvement Districts and bylaws (1933-1974). Minutes record the nature of appeals heard and decisions made. Attachments to the minutes include lists of appellants, along with property assessment values and changes made by decision of the Court. Records do not include minutes of the Court of Revision of the municipal assessment roll for the years 1909, 1945, 1947, and 1949, and for years after 1972. Records do not include minutes of the Court of Revision of local improvement assessment rolls for 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1944-1949, 1961, 1967, and 1973, and for years after 1974. Records of the proceedings of the Court of Revision of local improvement assessment rolls were physically integrated with those of the Court of Revision of municipal assessment rolls prior to 1933, and are arranged as part of Sub-series 1. These include minutes for 1924, 1925, 1926, and 1928. Also included in Sub-series 1 are minutes of the Court of Revision of the North Fraser Dyking District No. 1 for 1920 and 1921, and of the Mitchell Island Dyking and Drainage District for 1954.
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Records were previously bound; these have been unbound by the Archivist and rehoused.
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Associated materials
Minutes of the Courts of Revision for the Lulu Island West Dyking District and the New Lulu Island Slough Dyking District can be found in Series 202 and Series 203 respectively.
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General note
The Court of Revision for assessments was established by Council, normally on an annual basis, to hear appeals from property owners of land assessments for purposes of property taxes and of local improvement charges. Property assessments were carried out by a municipal assessor until 1974, when responsibility for assessment activities was assumed by the provincially-mandated B.C. Assessment Authority. An independent Property Assessment Review Panel was later mandated to hear appeals of these assessments, although municipal Council continued to appoint a Court of Revision for local improvement assessment rolls through 2003.
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BCAUL control number: CRICH-SER-427