Date:

Monday, April 16, 2012

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm Brodie, Chair

Councillor Chak Au

Councillor Derek Dang

Councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt

Councillor Ken Johnston

Councillor Bill McNulty

Councillor Linda McPhail

Councillor Harold Steves

Absent:

Councillor Linda Barnes

Call to Order:

The Chair called the meeting to order at 4:55 p.m.

AGENDA ADDITIONS (AND DELETIONS) AND COMMUNITY CHARTER CLOSED MEETING COMPLIANCE FOR ADDITIONAL ITEMS

(1)

That the Additional Hotel Room Tax (AHRT) Update, be added to the agenda as Item 2; and

(2)

Council hereby declares that the meeting held on April 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)(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;

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; and

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 the view of the council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if they were held in public.

CARRIED

Those Present:  Cathryn Volkering Carlile, Phyllis Carlyle, Jeff Day, George Duncan, Joe Erceg, Robert Gonzalez, Neonila Lilova, Andrew Nazareth, Amarjeet Rattan, Mike Redpath, Barb Sage, Dave Semple, Yvonne Stitch, 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 Monday, March 5, 2012, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED