Date:

Monday, January 16, 2012

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Chair

Councillor Chak Au

Councillor Linda Barnes

Councillor Derek Dang

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Linda McPhail

Councillor Harold Steves

Absent:

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Ken Johnston

Call to Order:

The Chair called the meeting to order at 4:59 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, January 16, 2012, 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)(i) -    the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose;

90(1)(k) -   negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of a municipal service that are at their preliminary stages and that, in the view of the council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if they were held in public;

Item 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; 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:  Cathryn Volkering Carlile, Phyllis Carlyle, Jeff Day, George Duncan, Joe Erceg, Robert Gonzalez, Gail Johnson, Doug Long, Andrew Nazareth, Dave Semple, Victor Wei, and Shanan Dhaliwal.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Monday, December 12, 2011 and Monday, January 9, 2012, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED