December 15, 2025 - Minutes (Closed)

Date:

Monday, December 15, 2025

Place:

Anderson Room
Richmond City Hall

Present:

Mayor Malcolm D. Brodie, Chair
Councillor Chak Au
Councillor Carol Day
Councillor Laura Gillanders
Councillor Kash Heed
Councillor Andy Hobbs
Councillor Alexa Loo
Councillor Bill McNulty
Councillor Michael Wolfe

Call to Order:

The Chair called the meeting to order at 5:22 p.m.

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

It was moved and seconded

Committee hereby declares that the meeting held on December 15, 2025, 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)(a) - personal information about an identifiable individual who holds or is being considered for a position as an officer, employee or agent of the municipality or another position appointed by the municipality;

Item 4

90(1)(c) -   labour relations or other employee relations;

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; 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; and

Item 5

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: Elizabeth Ayers, Evangel Biason, Jerry Chong, Wayne Craig, Katie Ferland, Raman Grewal, John Irving, Claudia Jesson, Serena Lusk, Dammy Ogunseitan, Jill Shirey, Ed Warzel, and Roeland Zwaag.   

MINUTES

It was moved and seconded

That the minutes of the closed meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on December 1, 2025, be adopted as circulated.

CARRIED