Time:

4:00 p.m.

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie
Councillor Linda Barnes
Councillor Derek Dang
Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt
Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt
Councillor Rob Howard
Councillor Kiichi Kumagai
Councillor Harold Steves

City Clerk J. Richard McKenna

Absent:

Councillor Bill McNulty

Call to Order:

Mayor Brodie called the meeting to order in open session at 4:00 p.m.

RES NO.

IC04/2-1

Council hereby declares that the meeting held at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, February 9^th, 2004 is to be closed to the public and that the basis of this closure is that the following items on the agenda of this meeting comply with the following closed meeting criteria specified in Section 90 of the Community Charter:

Item 1

90(1)(g) - litigation or potential litigation affecting the municipality; and

90(1)(i) - the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose;

Item 2

90(1)(e) - the acquisition, disposition or expropriation of land or improvements, if the council considers that disclosure could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality;

Items 3 and 4

90(1)(g) - litigation or potential litigation affecting the municipality; and

Item 5

90(1)(k) - negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of a municipal service that are at their preliminary stages and that, in view of the council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if they were held in public.

CARRIED

Those Present: George Duncan, Jim Bruce, Cathy Volkering Carlile, Jeff Day, Joe Erceg, Jim Hancock, Mike Kirk, Paul Kendrick, Rebecca Bittel, Lani Schultz, Lauren Melville, Jane Fernyhough, and Fran J. Ashton.

MINUTES

IC04/2-2

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the Regular (closed) Council Meeting held on Monday, January 28^th, 2004, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED