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Virginia.Governor Robert F. McDonnell, Correspondence and Supporting Documentation of the Executive Office, 2010-2013, Accession 51146, State Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA. 23219.
Office of the Governor, Patrick Henry Building, 1111 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23219, accession 51146 transferred on 9 January 2014.
Original folder names and chronological order maintained by archivist.
The Executive Office is a division of the Office of the Governor in the Executive Branch of Virginia state government. Members of the Executive Office include the Governor, Chief of Staff, Counselor to the Governor and their assistants. The Chief of Staff is the chief operating officer of state government, responsible for all aspects of service to citizens. The Chief oversees the Cabinet members and agency heads in the administration of state government and is also responsible for the operations of the Governor's Office and is assisted in these responsibilities by a Deputy Chief of Staff.
Robert F. McDonnell was elected 71st governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia in November 2009 and inaugurated on 16 January 2010. He served until 11 January 2014.
The Correspondence and Supporting Documentation of Governor McDonnell's Executive office are house in 3 boxes. The bulk of the collection consists of printed emails and supporting documentation of said internal email communications. These records concern various events and activities of the Governor and his office during his administration including. All three series include correspondence, both internally between the governor and staff, and externally with constituents, politicians and stake holders.
The series arrangement reflects the Correspondence and Communications work flow of the McDonnell Executive office. Some of the supporting documentation includes Governor's public schedule, recommendation letters, sympathies, media advisories / press releases, newspaper clippings / news summaries, publications featuring the Governor and briefing papers.
This collection is arranged into the following series, and chronologically within:
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Correspondence to dignitaries and politicians, internal staff, stake holders, and constituents from the first two years of Governor McDonnell's term comprises this series. This includes both email correspondence that has been printed from his inbox, and correspondence written on letterhead. The types of content in this series include congratulations, sympathies, recommendations, opinions on budgets and legislation, and gratitude to name a few.Unlike McDonnell's Constituent Correspondence collection (Accession 51119) which is primarily incoming mail, the majority of the communication here is outgoing, whether to constituents, internal staff, or VIPs.
The Action Items series differs from the first series of Correspondence and related material in that the records mostly include hand written annotations to the internal staff from Governor McDonnell. The content of the correspondence tend to focus on actions to be taken by he and his staff on various clerical, administrative, and legislative matters.. The bulk of Governor McDonnell's annotations are directed at Administrative Assistant Pam Watts, and a significant portion are also directed at and concern Virginia's First Secretary of Veteran Affairs and Homeland Security, Terrie Suit. One of the recurring topics in this series is Medicaid Expansion.
This third series of Correspondence is very similar to the second series, Action items in that they include annotations for actions to be taken on specific matters covered in the correspondence. The correspondence and supporting documents in this series however, include a cover sheet outlining a very specific work flow titled, "Status Reports" which helped track the status of actions.