Committee hereby declares that the meeting held on Wednesday, July 7th, 2004, is to be closed to the public, and that the basis of this closure is that the following item on the agenda of this meeting comply with the following closed meeting criteria specified in Section 90 of the Community Charter :

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;

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;

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, Cathy Volkering Carlile, Rod Kray, Jim Hancock, Mike Kirk, Jeff Day, Joe Erceg, Lani Schultz, and Kate Sparrow and Desiree Wong.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Monday, July 5th, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED