Category: Committee Live-Blog

RECAP: Transit Committee Learns About Budget Impact and 2024

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The last Transit Advisory Committee meeting of the year had a lot of ground to cover, especially with the 2024-2027 multiyear budget in progress. Speaking of 2024 there’s going to be some changes to at least one bus route in January, and we learned about all the thinking behind that decision. The meeting  also discussed two items generated around rider feedback and a few other projects, but you can get all those details with the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Transit Committee Learns About Budget Impact and 2024” →

RECAP: Police Board Gets Update About Campus Policing

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November’s Guelph Police Services Board meeting was comparatively low key compared to the last couple of months. The big item of the month was the annual report from atop Gordon Hill and the present state of the Campus Safety office and their team of auxiliary officers. Some interesting things to report there, and there’s the usual verbal update from Chief Gord Cobey. To see those details let’s do the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Police Board Gets Update About Campus Policing” →

RECAP: The AAC Has Concerns About Election Methods As Presented

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Delayed by a month due to a lack of quorum, the Accessibility Advisory Committee finally got a chance to workshop their voting method options, and the message by the end of was clear: They want all the options! Now a little less than three years until the next municipal election, the AAC has set the stage for a debate that will test just how dedicated the City Clerks’ office will be to the idea of completionism. For now, let’s recap the AAC meeting… Continue reading “RECAP: The AAC Has Concerns About Election Methods As Presented” →

RECAP: Heritage Guelph Cranks Out Several Designation, and Are Looking for More

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November’s Heritage Guelph meeting was largely straightforward, but at least three more designations are on their way to council for final approval at some point in the future, and now there are a couple of more items are on the drawing board, But as we reach the end of 2023 it seems like heritage staff are running our of work, which is why they queued up the committee to start thinking about 2024. For right now though, this is the recap of this month’s meeting… Continue reading “RECAP: Heritage Guelph Cranks Out Several Designation, and Are Looking for More” →

RECAP: Couple of Tough Applications for Committee of Adjustments Consideration

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It was a packed agenda for Committee of Adjustment this month, but it wasn’t necessarily a complicated agenda. Only a couple of files offered anything even a little controversial including a very well-known property that was once a hotel and is now a student residence where the owner wants to make even more room for students. Along with that, there’s a couple of severances, a couple of accessory buildings, and a house at the end of a dead end street. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Couple of Tough Applications for Committee of Adjustments Consideration” →

RECAP: Social Services Committee Tackles Ambulance and Housing Pressures

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This month’s Social Services Committee meeting at Wellington County took place against the backdrop of the budget discussion at the City of Guelph. Appropriately, two of the key topics directly affecting Guelph business includes (obviously) the 2024 social services budget, which also connects to a presentation from Paramedic Service Chief Stephen Dewar about ambulance response times. But that’s only how the meeting begins, so let’s gt into the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Social Services Committee Tackles Ambulance and Housing Pressures” →

RECAP: Board of Health Approves Strategic Plan and 2024 Budget

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After taking a month off, the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health got back to work with Guelph City Councillor Rodrigo Goller subbing for Chair George Bridge on this occasion. Topics included the new Strategic Plan for Public Health (the first one in nearly four years), community outreach, and the 2024 budget for agency. In other words, some important and notable things that you might want to consult in the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Board of Health Approves Strategic Plan and 2024 Budget” →

RECAP: Library Board Spends Most of It’s Meeting In-Camera

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The Devil’s night was in the details at the monthly meeting of the Guelph Public Library Board of Directors on Monday evening, and many of the details were behind the closed doors of the in-camera portion of that meeting. What was discussed in their closed session involved a report about the library as a safe space and the future self-evaluation of the board. For everything else, there’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Library Board Spends Most of It’s Meeting In-Camera” →

RECAP: GRCA Board Has Concerns About Outdoor Education Changes

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This month, the Grand River Conservation Authority membership got in on the growing number of budget activities, but that’s not where the controversy laid at this month’s board meeting. Having said that, the real controversy was in one area impacted by the budget, specifically changes to the outdoor education program. So there’s that, and also a discussion about the merits of hybrid meetings going forward. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: GRCA Board Has Concerns About Outdoor Education Changes” →

RECAP: Transit Advisory Committee Talks About Messaging

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The agenda for this month’s Transit Advisory Committee meeting was deceptively simple, just three things on the docket, but sometimes these simple meetings lead to the most interesting conversations. On Thursday evening, TAC talked about the air filtration on buses, the need for more outreach about how transit works and where things stand on a couple of different ongoing projects (wasn’t there supposed to be new shelters at Guelph Central Station this summer?). Learn more in the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Transit Advisory Committee Talks About Messaging” →