Time:

4:00 p.m.

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

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

City Clerk – J. Richard McKenna

Absent:

Councillor Linda Barnes

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

SIC05/2-1

It was moved and seconded

Council hereby declares that the meeting held at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, April 18^th, 2005, 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

Item 2

90(2)(b) -  the consideration of information received and held in confidence relating to negotiations between the municipality and a provincial government or the federal government, or both, or between a provincial government or the federal government or both and a third party.

CARRIED

Those Present:  Mike Kirk, Joe Erceg, Rod Kray, Cathy Volkering Carlile, Jeff Day, Richard McKenna, Andrew Nazareth, Ivy Wong, Jerry Chong, Kate Sparrow, Anne Stevens, Wayne Craig, and Fran J. Ashton.