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Series consists of correspondence, agreements, memoranda, copies of bylaws, and maps, relating to various municipal legal matters. Files includes letters of official notice of proceedings addressed to the municipality, from legal counsel, for members of the public and private businesses. The majority of the series consists of legal opinions from the municipal solicitor for the guidance of Council. Ongoing relations between the municipality and other levels of government and judicial bodies are documented.

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, agreements, statements of claim, maps, and drawings, relating to claims and suits for damages. The majority of the series consists of claims against the municipality for damages resulting from flooding. Series also includes case files compiled for individual damage claims for personal injury and damage to property. Legal judgements, agreements, and releases as public records form part of this series.

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, committee and staff reports, annual reports, and newspaper clippings, relating to human resource and social assistance issues, organizations, and programs. Examples of larger groups of records within in the series include: social assistance - miscellaneous (1943-1976); Department of Human Resources (1977-1988) and; Unified Family Court (1979-1987). Also included are numerous files on individual social assistance facilities and programs, e.g., group homes, transition houses, a remand diagnostic centre, Teen Challenge, and Richmond Family Place. Ongoing relations between the City and various community foundations, associations and societies, and ministries within the provincial government are documented. Also includes select files relating to the sale of property to the municipality by seniors in return for monthly assistance payments.

Series consists of meeting minutes of the Richmond Public Art Commission documenting deliberations, planning and discussions relating to a variety of public art projects and programs.

Series consists of minutes of meetings, including attachments, of the Richmond 2010 Olympic Oval Project Stakeholder/User Committee.

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, staff incident and annual reports, copies of Committee of the Whole and Fire Committee minutes, and agreements, relating to fire protection services and activities. A significant portion of the series relates to discussions regarding fire protection services and programs, and includes files on the purchase and maintenance of fire fighting equipment. Series also includes files relating to the establishment of Sea Island and Mitchell Island Fire brigades. Ongoing relations between the City and other local governments relating to fire fighting services are documented.

Series consists of minutes of meetings, including attachments, of the Richmond 2010 Olympic Oval Project Building Committee. Series includes a report of the joint Oval Advisory Committees Workshop held on September 13, 2005.

Series consists of minutes of meetings, including attachments, of the Richmond 2010 Olympic Oval Project Steering Committee. Series includes minutes of joint meetings with other Olympic Oval advisory committees.

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.

Series consists of meeting minutes of the Richmond Parking Advisory Committee documenting deliberations and discussions on a variety of parking-related issues

Series consists of meeting minutes of the Richmond Transit and Traffic Advisory Committee documenting deliberations and discussions relating to a variety of transportation and traffic issues in the city.

Series consists of meeting minutes of the Traffic Safety Advisory Committee documenting deliberations and discussions relating to a wide variety of traffic safety issues and problems.

Series consists of meeting minutes of the Community Safety Advisory Task Force documenting deliberations and discussions relating to a wide variety of community safety issues and problems, and the production of a final task force report.

Series consists of meeting minutes of the Richmond's Citizens' Advisory Committee on Policing documenting deliberations and discussions relating to policing issues and problems, and community policing and community safety initiatives.

Series consists of in-camera meeting minutes of the Joint Consultative Committee on Community Policing documenting discussions by the city, school board and RCMP on ongoing community policing policies, issues and actions, including the review of monthly RCMP statistics.

Series consists of minutes of the Corporate Sponsorship Committee documenting its activities in promoting corporate partnership agreements to raise revenue in support of city activities and programs. Minutes include confidential discussions and thus access restrictions apply.

Series consists of correspondence, memoranda, contracts, monthly, annual, and other reports, petitions, and newsletters, relating to policing activities and services, and justice issues. Records in this series cover a broad range of topics and initiatives, from towing services, speeding, traffic complaints, and abandoned cars, to contracts, policing services, and monthly and annual reports of policing activities. Series also includes letters of inquiry and complaint from members of the public. Ongoing relations between the City, the Province, the R.C.M.P. and various citizen associations are documented. Includes early correspondence, declarations and other materials (1915-1918) relating to the Board of Police Commissioners

Series consists of minutes of the Economic Advisory Committee documenting its activities in promoting economic development in Richmond. Minutes include discussions and deliberations relating to a variety of economic development objectives.

Series consists of minutes of the Agricultural Advisory Committee documenting its activities in promoting agricultural viability in Richmond. Minutes include submissions from public delegations and discussions and deliberations relating to development proposals, intergovernmental cooperation (including issues relating to the Agricultural Land Commission), and ongoing research and promotional activity relating to agricultural viability in the city.

Series consists of minutes of the Child Care Development Advisory Committee (earlier known as the Richmond Child Care Development Board) documenting its activities in coordinating efforts among a variety of community groups to develop child care services in the city.

Series consists of minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Environment documenting activities of the committee including receiving of submissions from the public, reviewing reports, and consulting and deliberating on a wide variety of issues relating to environmental protection, control, and sustainability in the municipality.

Series consists of minutes of the Mayor's Committee on Juvenile Problems, as well as staff reports, submissions, correspondence, and memoranda as attachments to the minutes. As part of their functions, the Committee heard submissions and reports from members of City staff, the public, social workers, members of various school boards, a psychologist from the Health Department, members of the Unified Family Court and other members of the judiciary. The Committee also made recommendations and proposals to Council for programs and solutions to these problems and liased with the Richmond Social Services Department, and other governmental and non-governmental bodies with an interest in youth issues. The series includes minutes of joint meetings between the Mayor's Committee on Juvenile Problems, the Social Service Committee of Council and City Council members.

Series consists of minutes of the Richmond Sister City Committee (previously known as the Sister City Twinning Committee) detailing ongoing activities of the committee in maintaining relations with existing sister cities (including organizing official visits and exchanges) and in investigating friendship relationships with municipal bodies in China.

Series consists of minutes (open and in-camera) of the Richmond Heritage Commission and its predecesor the Richmond Heritage Advisory Committee. Minutes detail ongoing activities of the commission/committee in the creation of municipal heritage inventories and in the provision of advisory services to Council relating to the preservation of heritage sites and buildings in the municipality.

Series consists of minutes relating to the functions and activities of the Richmond Family Court Committee. Records in this series document a range of activities, including: the identification of community resources, such as workshops, social services, films, programs and literature available to families or children in crisis; the discussion of administrative aspects of the committee, including the appointment and nomination of new members and the consideration of financial and personnel matters; the discussion of new projects and studies; and the deliberation of the RFCC in interpreting and debating new legislation. The series includes some attachments to minutes, including annual reports for some years.