September 21, 2020 - Minutes (Closed)

Date:

Monday, September 21, 2020

Place:

Council Chambers
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie, Chair
Councillor Chak Au
Councillor Carol Day (by teleconference)
Councillor Kelly Greene (by teleconference)
Councillor Alexa Loo (by teleconference)
Councillor Bill McNulty (by teleconference)
Councillor Linda McPhail (by teleconference)
Councillor Harold Steves (by teleconference)
Councillor Michael Wolfe (by teleconference)

Call to Order:

The Chair called the meeting to order at 5:56 p.m.

AGENDA ADDITION & CLOSURE OF THE COMMITTEE MEETING TO THE PUBLIC AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE COMMUNITY CHARTER CLOSED MEETING CRITERIA

That a matter on the annual tax sale be added to the agenda as Item No. 3 and Committee hereby declares that the meeting held on September 21, 2020, 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 & 3

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

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 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; and

Item 3

90(1)(g) -   litigation or potential litigation affecting the municipality.

CARRIED

Those Present:  Evangel Biason, Claudia Jesson, and Hanieh Berg.

Those Present by Teleconference: Cecilia Achiam, Clay Adams, Elizabeth Ayers, Brendan Burns, James Cooper, Jerry Chong, Mark Corrado, Wayne Craig, George Duncan, Joe Erceg, Grant Fengstad, Marie Fenwick, John Irving, Barry Konkin, Serena Lusk, Anthony Capuccinello Iraci, Kim Somerville, Kirk Taylor, Tim Wilkinson, Jim Wishlove, and Ivy Wong.

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on September 8, 2020, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED