Time:

6:15 p.m.

Place:

Anderson Room

Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie

Councillor Chak Au

Councillor Linda Barnes

Councillor Derek Dang

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Ken Johnston

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Linda McPhail

Councillor Harold Steves

Corporate Officer – David Weber

Call to Order:

Mayor Brodie called the meeting to order in open session at 6:15 p.m.

RES NO.

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

IC12/2-1

It was moved and seconded

Council hereby declares that the meeting held at 6:15 p.m. on Monday, January 23, 2012, 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)(i) -     the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose;

Items 1 & 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 the view of the council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if they were held in public;

Items 2, 4, 5

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

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;

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 7

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.

CARRIED

Those Present:  Cecilia Achiam, Alan Cameron, Cathryn Volkering Carlile, Jeff Day, Joe Erceg, Robert Gonzalez, John Irving, Brian Jackson, Doug Long, Andrew Nazareth, Alen Postolka, Mike Redpath, Dave Semple, David Weber, Victor Wei, and Shanan Dhaliwal.