Date:

Tuesday, April 18^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 6:18 p.m.

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

Committee hereby declares that the meeting held on Tuesday, April 18^th, 2006, 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 complies with the following closed meeting criteria specified in Section 90 of the Community Charter :

Item 1

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, Joe Erceg, Mike Kirk, Andrew Nazareth, Cathy Volkering Carlile, David Weber, Phyllis Carlyle, Greg Scott, Jean Lamontagne, and Fran J. Ashton.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Tuesday, March 21^st, 2006 and on Monday, April 3^rd, 2006, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED