Date:

Monday, July 19^th, 2004

Place:

Anderson Room

Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Chair

Councillor Derek Dang

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt 

Councillor Rob Howard

Councillor Kiichi Kumagai

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Harold Steves

Absent:

Councillor Linda Barnes

Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt

Call to Order:

The Chair called the open meeting to order at 4:00 p.m.

Committee hereby declares that the meeting held on Monday, July 19^th, 2004, 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(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)(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 4

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.

CARRIED

Those Present:  Christine McGilvray, Ken Sorenson, Brian Guzzi, Jim Hancock, Robert Gonzalez, George Duncan, Paul Kendrick, Catherine Volkering Carlile, Rod Kray, Joe Erceg, Jeff Day, Sandy Webster, Lani Schultz, Mike Kirk, Ted Townsend, Richard McKenna and Desiree Wong.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Wednesday, July 7th, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED