Date:

Monday, July 21, 2008

Place:

Anderson Room

Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Chair

Councillor Linda Barnes 

Councillor Cynthia Chen

Councillor Derek Dang
Councillor Rob Howard

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Harold Steves

Absent:

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt 

Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt 

Call to Order:

The Chair called the open meeting to order at 5:13 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 Monday, July 21, 2008,
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(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(1)(c) -    labour relations or other employee relations.

CARRIED

Those Present: David Weber, Mike Kirk, Mike Pellant, Phyllis Carlile, Cathy Volkering Carlyle, Ron Beaman, Janet Whitehead, Dave Semple, Victor Wei, Doug Long, Laurie Bachynski and Sheila Johnston.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Monday, July 7, 2008, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED