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1919-1971 (Creation)
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- Richmond (B.C.). City Clerk's Office
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12 cm of textual records;8 maps;1 technical drawing
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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 correspondence, memos, agreements, tenders, reports and plans relating to the construction, installation and maintenance of pumps and pumphouses around Richmond's perimeter. Also included is a proposal for an emergency bylaw that would establish provisions for a response to a flood or dyke failure.
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The finding aid includes a series description and a file list. Subject indexing applies at the series level and Name indexing applies at the file level.
Associated materials
This and other subject-based dyking and drainage series were begun when earlier jurisdictionally-based dyking and drainage series were broken apart some time in the late 1940s and re-arranged into subject-based series. Refer to the Clerk's agency finding aid for a more detailed account of the evolution of these series
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BCAUL control number: CRICH-SER-10