The emphasis of this month’s Guelph Police Services Board meeting was staffing. With more recent deaths of police officers across Canada fresh in the minds of everyone, the president of the Guelph Police Association talked about recent increases in violence against members locally. Also, how well is GPS staffed these days, and are they ready for the future. KPMG (and this meeting) have the answers. Continue reading “RECAP: Police Board Talks About Police Assaults and Future Staffing Needs”
After taking their usual break in March, the Accessibility Advisory Committee got together again to talk about a myriad of different topics from the downtown patio program, to the issues around getting more playgrounds with rubber surfaces, to the more general issues around making people with disabilities feel more involved in the community engagement process. Also, we’re already counting down to Election 2026! Continue reading “RECAP: Accessibility Committee Looks at Patios, Rubber Surfaces and Election 2026!”
Like one of those old episodes of Night Court where they have to get through 100 cases before midnight, Guelph’s Committee of Adjustment had to parcel through a dozen different applications over the course of a meeting that took nearly three hours to complete. Some of the applications were more difficult to parse than others, but there was an eclectic mix of projects and requests, to let’s dig into the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Committee of Adjustment Dispatches 12 Applications in Marathon Meeting”
Wellington County’s monthly Social Services Committee will be remembered for its lengthy in-camera session that took up about half the total meeting time. As for the non-in-camera stuff, the committee looked at quarterly financials, housing states, discretionary funding, and they took a very high overview of the County’s childcare service. Let’s recap this month’s meeting… Continue reading “RECAP: Social Services Committee Looks Over Childcare and Social Spending”
This month’s Heritage Guelph meeting covered a lot of ground. Two more properties are now on their way to city council for final approvals, but one property in the east end was de-listed from the heritage registry after being unable to put a birth date on an old barn, and there are some doings on the Ontario Reformatory Lands that might mean at least one building gets torn down. Let’s recap this month’s meeting… Continue reading “RECAP: Heritage Guelph Looks at OR Land Contamination and Next Designation”
April’s meeting of the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health was an occasion because it was the first meeting that took place largely in-person since before the start of the pandemic. Appropriately, vaccination was a big point of discussion in the meeting and so were programs to fight sexually transmitted infections, the opioid crisis and why spring means more awareness of rabies and the avian flu. Let’s recap! Continue reading “RECAP: This Month, Board of Health Looks at Sex, Drugs and Rabies”
This month’s Guelph Public Library Board meeting was relatively brisk with some brief updates about the year end variance and the main library project. The meatier stuff was in the annual report about the Library’s I.T. concerns, and the partnerships between the Library and other community groups, which were a reminder that there’s more to library services than giving you something good to read. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Library Board Hears How GPL Resources Go Beyond Books”
The monthly meeting of the Grand River Conservation Authority membership made quick work of a number of items, but they dwelled on a couple of key details including the water quality of the Grand River watershed as evaluated by Conservation Ontario, and a matter of contaminated land in a wetland in Cambridge. Plus, there’s good news if you’re interested in doing to pheasant hunting! Here’s the recap for March… Continue reading “RECAP: Water Conditions and Contamination Main Points of GRCA Meeting”
After being one shy of quorum in February, it was an almost full house for March as the Transit Advisory Committee threw themselves into some catch-up work and then looked ahead. From the pending presentation of the new fare strategy, to the coming changes from the Future Ready Plan, and yes, to an update about the roll out of the electric buses, there was a lot of ground to cover, so let’s start covering it with the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Transit Committee Looks to the Future at March Meeting”
This month’s Guelph Police Services Board meeting was brief, but still relatively consequential. The board marked the sad news in policing today coming out of Edmonton, added their voice to the call for bail reform, and appointed a committee to secure a new member of the board. In other news, the board may be going back to in-person meetings after the next meeting in April. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Police Board Endorses Motion to Promote Bail Reform”
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