December 18, 2017 - Minutes (Closed)

Date:

Monday, December 18, 2017

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie, Chair
Councillor Chak Au
Councillor Derek Dang
Councillor Carol Day
Councillor Ken Johnston
Councillor Alexa Loo
Councillor Bill McNulty
Councillor Linda McPhail
Councillor Harold Steves

Call to Order:

The Chair called the meeting to order at 4:24 p.m.

The Chair announced that Item 2 is to be deferred to the (Special) Closed Council meeting to be held on Wednesday, December 20, 2017.

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 December 18, 2017, 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)(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;

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;

Item 3

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 3

90(1)(i) -    the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose.

CARRIED

Those Present:  Cecilia Achiam, Brendan Burns, Suzanne Bycraft, Donna Chan, Milton Chan, Wayne Craig, Ben Dias, George Duncan, Joe Erceg, Grant Fengstad, Robert Gonzalez, Barbara Sage, Tom Stewart, Kirk Taylor, Ted Townsend, David Weber, and Amanda Welby.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on December 4, 2017, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED