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February 11. 2008 At a Called Meeting of the City Council on Monday, February 11, 2008, there were present: Mayor James W. Holley III, Vice Mayor Marlene W. Randall, *William E. Moody, Jr., Stephen E. Heretick, Elizabeth M. Psi mas, Ray A. Smith, Sr., Douglas L. Smith, City Manager Kenneth L. Chandler, City Attorney G. Timothy Oksman. 08 - 61 - The following call for the meeting was read: "Please attend a Called Meeting of the City Council to be held in the 6th Floor Conference Room, 801 Crawford Street, 5:00 p.m., Monday, February 11, 2008 for the purpose of a Public Work Session. In addition, you may consider a motion to go into a Closed Meeting. By order of the Mayor." 08 - 62 - The following items were discussed in Public Work Session: 1. Municipal Finance Commission Joint Meeting The following members were present: Bruce Lelonde Pete Kloeppel Christopher Hersh 2. FY 09 Budget Presentation - Capital Improvement Program Budget - Regan Gerlt, Budget Analyst I Betty Burrell, Chief Financial Officer 3. Downtown Design Committee - Paul Holt, Planning Director 08 - 63 - Motion by Mr. Heretick, and seconded by Ms. Psi mas, to go into Closed Meeting pursuant to provisions of Section 2.2-3711 (A) of the Code of Virginia to discuss an economic development matter for the downtown waterfront area of the City: subsection 3, the sale of a publicly held real estate; subsection 6, investing public funds where competition or bargaining IS involved; and subsection 7, specific legal matters requiring the advice of legal counsel. The subject matter of the meeting is the proposed Crawford Point development project, sometimes known as the Holiday Inn development project. The purpose of the meeting is to permit confidential discussion of negotiating strategy. The motion was adopted by unanimous vote. Motion by Mr. D. Smith, and seconded by Ms. Randall, pursuant to Section 2.2- 3712(D) of the Code of Virginia, certifying that to the best of the Council Members' knowledge during the immediately preceding Closed Meeting of the City Council: 1. Only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements by the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, and 2. Only such public business matters as were identified in the motion, by which the Closed Meeting was convened, were heard, discussed or considered in the meeting by the City Council.