Date:

Monday, March 2, 2009

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Chair

Councillor Linda Barnes

Councillor Derek Dang

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Greg Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Harold Steves

Absent:

Councillor Ken Johnston

Call to Order:

The Chair called the meeting to order at 5:41 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, March 2,  2009, 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 :

Items 1 & 2

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 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;

Item 3

90(1)(d) - the security of the property of the municipality; and

Item 4

90(1)(m) -   a matter that, under another enactment, is such that the public may be excluded from the meeting.

CARRIED

Those Present:  Cathryn Carlile, Phyllis Carlyle, Jerry Chong, Terry Crowe, Joan D’Angola, Jeff Day, George Duncan, Joe Erceg, Robert Gonzalez, John Irving, Brian Jackson, Vern Jacques, Mike Kirk, Doug Long, Robert Kates, Glen McLaughlin, Andrew Nazareth, Renny Nessett, Debra Proctor, Amarjeet Rattan, Lucy Tompkins, David Weber, and Shanan Dhaliwal.

MINUTES

1.

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Monday, February 2 , 2009, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED