It’s Christmas time for the Guelph Police Services Board and they are giving us the gift of brevity. This month’s meeting will be largely focused on administrative matters, new hires, new committees, meeting dates and formats, plus the usual verbal update from Chief Gord Cobey. Open up YouTube and get one last bit of police business (at a board level) before taking the rest of the year off. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for December 14, 2023”
Just because it’s almost the holidays that doesn’t mean the Grand River Conservation Authority board is slacking off. There’s a long list of reports to get through before everyone can take their Christmas break from Strategic Plan thoughts to changes to the Procedural Bylaw to ongoing prep to pass the 2024 budget. Also, in local news, there’s an update about the Guelph Lake Nature Centre. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Grand River Conservation Membership Meeting for December 15, 2023”
This last month of the year, Heritage Guelph is looking to the future, and also a little bit to the past. There are no specific heritage designations on the agenda, but staff will be looking for work on designations to do in the new year, and there’s still a lot of work to do on that front. Also, when will Heritage Guelph be meeting to take care of that business, and what about some of the mistakes of the past? Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for December 11, 2023”
The last Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health meeting for the year will focus on a couple of different areas. You like vaping? Maybe you do, but if you’re a kid under 19 than no one should be selling any vaping products to you. Do you want to get sick this holiday season? If not, maybe this is a good time to be reminded that you should get a flu shot. Have a young person behind on their shots? We’ve got a reminder for that too. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Board of Health Meeting for December 6, 2023”
There’s no early holiday break for the Committee of Adjustment, they still have a pretty busy agenda of new applications this month, and they’re all asking for a variety of variances. A new balcony, a new front yard, some new additions, and a couple of new accessory units are among the items up for committee’s consideration, and the applicants are hoping that it’s a happy Christmas for their construction projects! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Committee of Adjustment Meeting for December 14, 2023”
The last Guelph Public Library Board of Directors meeting of the year will look to the future, short and long-term. As 2023 comes to an end, the year that ground was finally broken on the new main library, the board will look at how they’re going to help fundraise for it. That’s the long-term, but the short-term talk will focus on setting the table for 2024 and what the staff and board hope to focus on in the new year. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for November 27, 2023”
It’s been a busy couple of months at membership board of the Grand River Conservation Authority, so by comparison November’s meeting is going to be a little bit lighter. (Also, the annual general meeting is next month so it’s a small respite.) For this meeting there’s the usual financial updates, some tenders to approve, plus some human resources policies to update, but the big thing, again, has to do with outdoor education. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Grand River Conservation Membership Meeting for November 24, 2023”
After passing the Guelph Police Services budget for 2024-2027 last month, this November meeting of the Police Services Board seems positively light. Still, there’s some stuff worth checking at this meeting including an annual update from the Guelph Police’s counterparts up on the hill at the U of G, an update about how this year’s budget is going, plus the usual report from the chief. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for November 16, 2023”
November’s Transit Advisory Committee meeting will look to the future. That means looking at the budget and some of the best laid plans in the 10-year route and schedule strategy that are now delayed, and that also means looking at potential changes to a south end bus route. That’s under new business, and aside from then there’s also the usual business like the monthly update from staff and rider feedback. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting for November 16, 2023”
Take two! This meeting was originally supposed to take place last month, but the Accessibility Advisory Committee was unable to achieve quorum. So the meeting was rescheduled following October’s regular meting and this is where they landed, in the middle of November at approximately the same time that an AAC meeting might normally take place. With that kind of regularity, the meeting will have to happen this time! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Accessibility Advisory Committee for November 14, 2023”
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