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Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, signed contracts, appraisals, consultants' reports, architects' reports, and maps relating to the provision and inspection of a variety of engineering services to schools in Richmond. The majority of the series consists of correspondence between the Board of School Trustees and the Engineering Department. Topics include requests for the repair or installation of electrical, water and sewer services, fences, school crossings, and grounds maintenance. The series includes records relating to school site selection, construction of school buildings, additions to school buildings, and municipal inspections relating to these activities. The series also includes plans of school yards showing detailed layout of sanitary sewers, and other drainage characteristics. Also includes a file on engineering work relating to the site of Tomekichi Homma Junior Secondary School.

Series consists of minutes (open and in-camera/closed) of the Council/School Board Liaison Committee and its predecessor the Council/School Board Task Force. Minutes detail ongoing cooperative activities of the municipality and the Richmond School Board, including joint administration of school grounds and parks, the acquisition and exchange of land and buildings, and joint development planning activities of the two bodies. The responsibility for taking minutes has alternated annually between the municipality and the school board. As a result, the format of the minutes changes yearly.

The fonds consists of records generated from Board meetings, financial activities, insurance appraisals, and activities relating to school openings, school life, a court case, policy decisions and historical research. Board meetings are documented in an incomplete set of Minutes from the years 1878-1952 and 1986-1996. Financial records consist of ledgers, a financial statement report prepared by external auditors, and receipt and cash books. Files on appraisal of school property contain reports. School opening files contain correspondence, notes, photographs, programmes, memoranda and other textual material. Photographs and films demonstrating school life in the district likely were generated as part of publicity activities. The file on a court case contains financial and account statements and reports, correspondence, and a receipt book. There is a Board policy manual from 1990. Lastly, there are several files containing notes and typed reports on the history of Richmond's schools and the history of Richmond, in general.

Collection includes correspondence, reports, notices, resolutions, minutes and financial records relating to Gordon's capacity as a School Trustee and Municipal Councillor.

Series consists of records created by the Office of the Mayor during the terms of Mayors Gil Blair and Greg Halsey-Brandt. Series contains correspondence, memos, reports, proclamations, transcripts of and notes for speeches and addresses, press releases and commentaries, and some resource and reference material. Records reflect the interaction between the Mayor and other levels of government, government agencies and commissions, corporate interests, and various community groups, as well as the Mayor's views on a variety of issues, including economic development, the environment, transportation, land use, municipal infrastructure, regional government, and inter-governmental affairs. Included are records relating to the federal and provincial governments, the Greater Vancouver Regional District, the Fraser River and North Fraser Harbour Commissions, the Vancouver International Airport Authority, Steveston Harbour Authority, Vancouver Regional Transit Commission, the Waste Reduction Commission and the Richmond School Board. Also included are records of the Mayor's interaction with various city committees, task forces and commissions, the BC Aviation Council, the Richmond General Hospital, the Lower Mainland Municipal Association and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, BC Transit, BC Hydro, BC Ferries, BC Packers Ltd., Canadian Airlines International, Air Canada, the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, the Richmond Visitors and Convention Bureau, the Richmond Community Arts Council, the Boy Scouts of Richmond, the Richmond Gateway Theatre, the Richmond City Centre Community Association, Richmond Family Place Society, the Richmond Foundation, the Steveston Salmon Festival, the United Way of the Lower Mainland, 12 (Vancouver) Service Battalion, the Steveston Interurban Restoration Society, and the Richmond SPCA. Records also exist relating to the interaction of the City with its sister cities of Pierrefonds, Quebec and Wakayama, Japan, with other municipalities, and with the Musqueam Indian Band. Records also document the Mayor's involvement with special events in the City, as well as with the presentation of awards and honours. Files titled "Miscellaneous" dating from 1997 onwards contain documents organized alphabetically by subject category.