Time:

4:00 p.m.

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie
Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt
Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt
Councillor Rob Howard
Councillor Bill McNulty
Councillor Harold Steves

City Clerk – J. Richard McKenna

Absent:

Councillor Linda Barnes
Councillor Derek Dang
Councillor Kiichi Kumagai

Call to Order:

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

RES NO.

CLOSURE OF THE COUNCIL MEETING TO THE PUBLIC AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE COMMUNITY CHARTER CLOSED MEETING CRITERIA

SIC04/4-1

It was moved and seconded

Council hereby declares that the meeting held on Monday, August 16^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:

Items 1 and 2

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 (4:16 p.m.), Rod Kray, Jeff Day, Joe Erceg, Cathy Volkering Carlile, Mike Kirk, Lani Schultz (4:08 p.m.), Kate Sparrow, Ted Townsend, and Fran J. Ashton.