Date:

Monday, February 6^th, 2006

Place:

Anderson Room

Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Chair

Councillor Linda Barnes 

Councillor Cynthia Chen

Councillor Derek Dang
Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt 

Councillor Rob Howard

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Harold Steves

Absent:

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt 

Call to Order:

The Chair called the open meeting to order at 6:59 p.m.

It was moved and seconded

Committee hereby declares that the meeting held on Monday,
February 6^th, 2006, 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)(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; and

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, Mike Kirk, Andrew Nazareth, Lani Schultz, Tom Andersson, Robert Gonzalez, Kate Sparrow, and Fran J. Ashton.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Monday, January 16^th, 2006, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED