Place:

Anderson Room

Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie

Councillor Linda Barnes

Councillor Derek Dang

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

Call to Order:

Mayor Brodie called the meeting to order at 4:02 p.m., and announced that the Special Closed Council Meeting would be recessed until the conclusion of the General Purposes and Finance Committee meetings.

RES NO.

ITEM

The Special Closed Council meeting reconvened at 8:40 p.m..

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

SIC09/4-1

It was moved and seconded

Council hereby declares that the meeting held Immediately Following the Closed General Purposes Committee meeting on Monday, June 1, 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;

Item 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;

Item 3

90(1)(b) - personal information about an identifiable individual who is being considered for a municipal award or honour, or who has offered to provide a gift to the municipality on condition of anonymity; and

Item 4

90(1)(j) -     information that is prohibited, or information that if it were presented in a document would be prohibited, from disclosure under section 21 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

Those Present:  Cecilia Achiam, Cathryn Carlile, Phyllis Carlyle, Jeff Day, George Duncan, Joe Erceg, Jane Fernyhough, Robert Gonzalez, Serena Lusk, Kate Sparrow, Ted Townsend, David Weber, and Shanan Dhaliwal.