Place:

Anderson Room

Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie

Councillor Linda Barnes

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Greg Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Ken Johnston

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Harold Steves

Director, City Clerk’s Office – David Weber

Absent:

Councillor Derek Dang

Call to Order:

Mayor Brodie called the meeting to order in open session at 4:00 p.m., and announced that the Special Closed Council meeting would be recessed until the conclusion of the General Purposes Committee meeting.

RES NO.

ITEM

The Special Closed Council meeting reconvened at 6:33 p.m..

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

SIC09/3-1

It was moved and seconded

Council hereby declares that the meeting held at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, April 20, 2009, 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)(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(1)(n) -    the consideration of whether a council meeting should be closed under a provision of this subsection or subsection (2).

CARRIED

Those Present:  Cathryn Carlile, Phyllis Carlyle, Terry Crowe, Joan D’Angola, Jeff Day, George Duncan, Joe Erceg, John Foster, Robert Gonzalez, Brian Jackson, Robert Kates, Mike Kirk, Dave Semple, Ted Townsend, David Weber, and Shanan Dhaliwal.