VPRS 16130 General Correspondence Files, Two-number System

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The Office of Commonwealth Games Co-ordination (OCGC) was created to facilitate the planning and delivery of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. It was a division within the Department for Victorian Communities.

The earliest records in this series were created in 1996 by Sport and Recreation Victoria (within the Department of State Development) and then in 2000 by Sport and Recreation Victoria (within the Department of State and Regional Development). Subsequently, in 2002, the records were created by the Office of Commonwealth Games (within the Department of Tourism, Sport and the Commonwealth Games).

Records in this series cover a wide variety of functions and activities including:
- Federal and State Government funding agreements
- Budget management
- cabinet and parliamentary liaison
- planning, design and construction management of the games village, venues and public infrastructure
- education programs; cultural program and festival
- traffic and transport operations and planning; and
- volunteering and training.