Category: Committee Live-Blog

RECAP: Accessibility Committee Wants Changes to Mobility and Taxi Programs

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In a remarkable turn of events, the Accessibility Advisory Committee finished work early in their first meeting of 2025! They still got a lot of work done though. They were consulted about heritage downtown and they had some comments about on-street accessible parking during the patio season, but the meat of the meeting was in the way the City of Guelph currently asks people with disabilities to apply for needed mobility services. Let’s recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Accessibility Committee Wants Changes to Mobility and Taxi Programs” →

RECAP: JSSLAC Gets the Point in Time Count and Gets Winter Update

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It was a comparatively light agenda at the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee meeting for February on Wednesday, good thing because some in attendance wanted to outrun an incoming winter storm. The primary focus was matters of housing, specifically the state of homelessness in the region. Committee heard about the December report on the winter response plan and the Point in Time Count, and now you can hear about them too with this recap! Continue reading “RECAP: JSSLAC Gets the Point in Time Count and Gets Winter Update” →

RECAP: Board of Health is Back and Talking Diseases! (And Other Stuff)

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Even though it’s February, the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health had their first meeting of the year, and since it was their first meeting of the year there was a lot of housekeeping to do right off the bat. In the meat of the meeting, there was some discussion about the impact of certain diseases in the community, the health needs of priority populations and, naturally, feedback about public health itself. Let’s recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Board of Health is Back and Talking Diseases! (And Other Stuff)” →

RECAP: Library Board Looks to the Future and Fundraising

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As usual, a month of meetings ended at the Guelph Public Library, the main branch which is still on Norfolk Street, at least for another year-and-a-half (and maybe something about an opening date got spilled in this meeting?). For the most part, this meeting was about the future: The next few months of work on the new main library, the next few years for the board itself, and the future of fundraising. Let’s dig into library business in this recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Library Board Looks to the Future and Fundraising” →

RECAP: Heritage Guelph Endorses National Urban Park Idea for OR Lands

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In the second Heritage Guelph meeting for January, the focus was on a piece of heritage business that has gotten a lot of attention lately: The Ontario Reformatory Lands and the Heritage Conservation District plan meant to protect them. The committee got their chance to weigh in on the plan, and they also go their chance to weigh in on a very specific proposal for the lands in the form of a national urban park. Let’s recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Heritage Guelph Endorses National Urban Park Idea for OR Lands” →

RECAP: Transit Boss Says Goodbye at First TAC Meeting of the Year

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For the first time in 2025, the members of the Transit Advisory Committee got together to say goodbye. Guelph Transit General Manager Robin Gerus announced his retirement and introduced his successor to the committee, but it wasn’t all bittersweet news. T.A.C. also talked about some changes to various fares and other work coming up in 2025. So let’s dig into the business of busing in this recap of the meeting…! Continue reading “RECAP: Transit Boss Says Goodbye at First TAC Meeting of the Year” →

RECAP: Police Board Approves Name Change and Gets Downtown Update

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The Guelph Police Services Board got a lot of work done for it’s first meeting of the year. A new chair and vice-chair was appointed, a new name change was approved, some money was given away, a new kind of report was tabled for the first time, and on top of that there was a detailed report about the impact of increased policing downtown. So let’s get into the recap of the first Police Board meeting of the year! Continue reading “RECAP: Police Board Approves Name Change and Gets Downtown Update” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for January 16, 2025

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The Guelph Police Services Board will be holding their last meeting ever in January… because they’re getting a name change! What is the new name of this important committee? That is one of the many details that will be revealed in this meeting’s agenda, which will also cover some of the usual annual business that the Police Board needs to do, as well as some of the regular updates. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for January 16, 2025” →

RECAP: Heritage Guelph Pushes Staff to Do More on OR Lands and U of G!

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It was rough going for the first Heritage Guelph meeting of 2025, and not just because of the content! It took the better part of an hour for City of Guelph staff to work out some technical difficulties, including a switch involving online platforms, and then they dug into the agenda, which leaned heavily on a lot of committee concerns about the future of the OR Lands, and the future of heritage buildings at the University of Guelph. Here’s the recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Heritage Guelph Pushes Staff to Do More on OR Lands and U of G!” →

RECAP: JSSLAC Takes a Closer Look at 2025 Social Services Budget

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It was a new year with a sort of new Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee with a definitely new chair. Ward 4 Guelph Councillor Linda Busuttil is now the captain of this joint City and County endeavour and they began with 2025 with an in-depth look at the 2025 budget for both the social services and the ambulance portions of the bill. For those details, and all the others, let’s dig into the first recap of 2025! Continue reading “RECAP: JSSLAC Takes a Closer Look at 2025 Social Services Budget” →