The Administrative and Board Materials are made up of three sub-series: Board of Public Works, Director’s Files and General Public Works Materials.

Board of Public Works materials include minutes and attachments (1964-1989), correspondence (1955-1982), finding & orders (1960-1990) and parade permits (1981-1990). The minutes make up a large part of the Board of Public Works materials and are complete with attachments of relevant materials. Eventually an index to these minutes will be available. One folder is the extent of the Board of Public Works correspondence. Much of the Board's correspondence is included in the attachments to the Board minutes. Finding & orders contains legislation adopted by the Board of Public Works for changes in parking and street regulations. The finding & orders also include some accident and repair information related to parking and street regulations as well as pertinent correspondence and other attachments. Parade permits consist of permits for parades on La Crosse streets, including requests for street blockage and date and sponsor of the event. Original minutes of the Board of Public Works (without attachments), finding & orders, and parade permits are in the City Clerk's office. These are maintained permanently except parade permits, which are destroyed after 7 years.

The Director’s Files are made up of a wide variety of materials from the Office of the Director of Public Works. They include such things as information on projects, a few studies and reports, some correspondence and various other materials. Most of these numerous files contain a small amount of information on their designated subject. The Director's files also contain some Common Council materials that affect Public Works. These include Common Council Committee on City Government (1972), Common Council Agendas (1981-1989), Common Council Proceedings (1966 Dec-1977 Dec), Common Council Referred Matters (1966-1987) and Common Council Resolutions re: Public Works Projects (1954-1983). The City Clerk's office permanently maintains all original records of the Common Council.

The General Public Works Materials make up the bulk of the Administrative and Board Materials. General Public Works Materials include Planning & Projects, La Crosse County Landfill and Refuse & Recycling. Planning & Projects, the largest section of records, consists of City Plan Commission Minutes (1966-1978), La Crosse Area Planning Committee Minutes (1974-1978), and Contracts and Project Files. Twelve projects are included in Contracts and Projects Files, as well as some general material related to bridges, current projects, and miscellaneous projects. The twelve projects are City Hall, Copeland Avenue Overhead, Gillette Street Overhead, Green Acres Overhead, Harry J. Olson Senior Center, La Crosse Center, La Crosse Center Parking Facility, Market Square Parking Facility, Mary E. Sawyer Center, Municipal Service Building, ORC Industries and the Rose Street Project. These files contain contracts, studies, project handbooks, equipment & furniture information as well as specific materials related directly to each project. The City’s Engineering Department is responsible for permanently maintaining drawings, contracts, and change orders for city owned facilities.

La Crosse County Landfill materials include Sludge Disposal (1980 Mar-1981 Mar), Solid Waste Management Committee Minutes (1980-1989) and Study Committee information (1974 Aug-1979 Sep). The La Crosse City Landfill was abandoned and the city now uses the county landfill. La Crosse city landfill materials are included in Refuse and Recycling landfill materials. Refuse & Recycling materials include Incinerator (1965-1981), Landfill (City of La Crosse) materials (1964-1987), Photos (n.d.; 1946-1978), and information on the Resource Recovery Facility (1979-1988). Materials on city landfill abandonment are located in the Office of the Director of Public Works.