Time:

4:00 p.m.

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie
Councillor Linda Barnes
Councillor Cynthia Chen
Councillor Derek Dang
Councillor Rob Howard
Councillor Bill McNulty
Councillor Harold Steves

Acting Director, City Clerk’s Office – Gail Johnson

Absent:

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt
Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt

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

IC06/12-1

It was moved and seconded

Council hereby declares that the meeting held at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, July 24^th, 2006, 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 5

90(1)(a) - personal information about an identifiable individual who holds or is being considered for a position as an officer, employee or agent of the municipality or another position appointed by the municipality;

Item 2

90(1)(c) -    labour relations or other employee relations;

Items 3, 7 and 8

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 1, 4 and 6

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.

Item 9

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; and

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:  George Duncan, Mike Kirk, Joe Erceg, Andrew Nazareth, Cathy Volkering Carlile (4:02 p.m.), Phyllis Carlyle, Gail Johnson, Greg Scott, Dave Semple, Robert Gonzalez, Kate Sparrow, Jean Lamontagne, Jane Fernyhough, Joyce Chung, Christine McGilvray, and Fran J. Ashton.

MINUTES

IC06/12-2

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the Regular (closed) Council Meeting held on Monday, July 10^th, 2006, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED