Date:

Monday, June 1, 2009

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Chair

Councillor Linda Barnes

Councillor Derek Dang

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Sue Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Ken Johnston

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Harold Steves

Absent:

Councillor Greg Halsey-Brandt

Call to Order:

The Chair called the meeting to order at 8:02 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, June 1, 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:

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(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;

Item 3

90(1)(b) - personal information about an identifiable individual who is being considered for a municipal award or honour, or who has offered to provide a gift to the municipality on condition of anonymity; and

Item 4

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.

CARRIED

Those Present:  Cecilia Achiam, Alan Cameron, Cathryn Carlile, Phyllis Carlyle, Jeff Day, George Duncan, Joe Erceg, Jane Fernyhough, Robert Gonzalez, Robert Kates, Doug Long, Serena Lusk, Andrew Nazareth, Amarjeet Rattan, Mike Redpath, Dave Semple, Kate Sparrow, Ted Townsend, David Weber, and Shanan Dhaliwal.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Tuesday, May 19, 2009, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED