Records of the Virginia Dept. of Planning and Budget,

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888

Background

Scope and content:

Records of the Virginia Dept. of Planning and Budget (DPB), 1987-2004, include various publications and reports related to information technology created by other entities and collected by DPB, as well as audiovisual materials. Contains reports created by the Council on Information Management (CIM), Dept. of Information Management (DIT), Governor's Commission on Information Technology, Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC), Secretary of Technology, and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA).

Audio-visual materials, 1997, include interviews with five Virginia governors (Baliles, Holton, Robb, Wilder, and Allen) regarding the Secretarial System in Virginia State Government (6 VHS tapes), as well as recordings of House of Delegates and Senate proceedings regarding the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (3 VHS tapes). These records are also available elecronically. The interviews were conducted by Philip Leone and Kirk Jonas of the staff of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission for a follow-up study to assess the secretarial system in Virginia state government, the results of which can be found in House Document 41 of the 1998 General Assembly. For interview transcripts, see Accession 36070.

Biographical / historical:

Established by an Act of Assembly in 1976, the Dept. of Planning and Budget was created through the merging of the Division of the Budget and the Division of State Planning and Community Affairs. The duties of the Dept. of Planning and Budget include: the development and direction of an integrated policy analysis, planning and budgeting process within State government; the development, storage, retrieval and dissemination of data on the social, economic, physical and governmental aspects of the State; the formulation of an executive budget; conduct policy and program analysis for the Governor; the establishment of planning districts and standard metropolitan statistical areas; and the development and operation of a system of standardized reports of program and financial performance for management.

Acquisition information:
Accession 54462 transferred by the Library of Virginia, April 8, 2025.
Physical description:
2 cubic feet and 9.2 gb.