Collections : [Library of Virginia]

Minutes and related attachments documenting the meetings, activities, discussions, policy decisions, and recommendations of the Virginia Real Estate Board. Includes official board minutes. Includes official board minutes, as well as draft minutes, committee meeting minutes, agendas and other meeting materials. May also include informal fact finding hearing minutes, agreements, Fair Housing Committee minutes, committee reports, correspondence, guideines, legislation, regulations and reports.

Minutes, 1987-2013, document the efforts of the Virginia Recreational Facilities Authority in the planning, management, and operation of Virginia's Explore Park in Roanoke, Virginia. Also included is a videotaped public service announcement for Explore Park and a dvd of the U.S. Challenge held at Explore Park in 2006, as well as a copy of the 2013 lease for the Explore Park in Roanoke County.

Minutes, 1935-2011, of the meetings of the Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Board. Includes agendas, minutes, policies adopted by the Board, correspondence to and from the board, presentations given to the board, and material concerning proposed regulations.

These records were created or collected during the administration of Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder, 1990-1994, and Governor George Allen, 1994-1998. During the Allen administration, James Gilmore served as the Attorney General (1994-1997). This series includes speeches by Gilmore and others in the office incluidng Gary Aronholt. In addition to speeches, folders include travel logistics, iteneraries, lists of attendees, newspaper clippings, invitations, and regrets.

This series consists of individual case files that contain filings, briefs, correspondence and other supporting material in cases of original jurisdiction. The Supreme Court of Virginia has original jurisdiction in cases involving habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, and judicial censure, retirement or removal.

Policy Office Correspondence with Cabinet Secretaries and State Agencies, 1990-1993, is housed in 105 boxes and is arranged alphabetically by Secretariat, with Joint Legislative and Audit Review Commission, Virginia Lottery, and Division of Legislative Services filed at the end of the collection. These records document legislative and policy priorities and issues during the Wilder administration (1990-1994). The files of each secretariat contain general correspondence, topical files, and files for state agencies within each secretariat. These records include correspondence, agendas, background information, briefing books, decision briefs, meeting records, memoranda, notes, speeches, subject files, and reports.

Contains project files, 1953-2005, relating to the Policy Office of the Virginia Dept. of Education. Projects include the Governor's Commission on Educational Opportunity for All Virginians and the implementation of No Child Left Behind in Virginia. Types of material include workpapers, presentations, reports, agendas, studies, and documents produced by the House of Delegates, among others.

Project files, 1970-2013, of the Virginia Code Commission include records related to the Obsolete Provision Project / Repeal Project, as well as records of the Virginia Register Advisory Committee and the Administrative Law Advisory Committee. Includes correspondence, code citations, legislation, research materials, and reports.

This series includes records and briefs for cases heard by the Supreme Court of Virginia. These records were filed with the Clerk of the Supreme Court and copies forwarded to each justice for review and study before the cases were argued. Types of records may include brief of appellant, brief of appellee, reply briefs, reply briefs cross appellant, amicus briefs, petitions, and appendices.

Records, 1986-1993, of the Secretary of Economic Development. The correspondence documents the development, establishment and implementation of policies and procedures implementing the Secretary's mandate on the behalf of the Governor. The records consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports, memoranda, budget documents and related materials. The collection is arranged into four sections by accession number. For earlier records see Secretary of Commerce and Resources; for later records see Secretary of Commerce and Trade.