Time:

6:30 p.m.

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie
Councillor Linda Barnes
Councillor Cynthia Chen
Councillor Derek Dang
Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt
Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt
Councillor Rob Howard
Councillor Bill McNulty
Councillor Harold Steves

Corporate Officer – David Weber

Call to Order:

Mayor Brodie called the meeting to order in open session at 6:30 p.m.

RES NO.

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

IC08/1-1

It was moved and seconded

Council hereby declares that the meeting held at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, January 28^th, 2008, 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)(g) –   litigation or potential litigation affecting the municipality.

CARRIED

Those Present:  George Duncan (6:34 p.m.), Phyllis Carlyle, Joe Ereceg, Jeff Day, Andrew Nazareth, Celeste Curran, Glenn McLaughlin, Robert Gonzalez, Kate Sparrow, David Weber, Shanan Dhaliwal and Fran J. Ashton.

MINUTES

IC08/1-2

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the Regular (closed) Council Meeting held on Monday, December 10^th, 2007, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED