Category: Committee Meeting Preview

MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for May 14, 2025

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Members of Guelph city council and senior staff will once again go to the other side of downtown to sit with members of the County for this month’s Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee. What’s on the agenda? Assets and managing them, some new projects, plus an update on childcare funding, supporting people who were homeless through the winter, and a formal answer to a long-standing matter of interest. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for May 14, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Board of Health Meeting for May 7, 2025

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This meeting of the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health will cover a lot of administrative ground. The board will get reports about the year-end financials, how their using new tech tools, and some quarterly and annual updates. Also, we will hear about the still relevant struggle to keep cigarettes and their modern equivalent out of the hands of youth, not to mention some of the other health issues youth are facing. Let’s preview! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Board of Health Meeting for May 7, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for May 1, 2025

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Heritage protection marches on with this May meeting of the Heritage Guelph committee. On this agenda, there’s a whole new list of potential designations, 10 in all, plus a couple of new reports; one is about a demolition of a listed heritage property, and the second is about a stretch of road work coming in one of the older areas of town. Let’s check out what all is on the agenda for this May Day edition of Heritage Guelph!

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MEETING PREVIEW: Accessibility Advisory Committee for April 15, 2025

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If it’s an even numbered month, then that means it’s time for the Accessibility Advisory Committee meeting. In this edition, the AAC will tackle a new playground feature, the redrawing of a couple of streets, the design of parks and trails, and the possibility of funding a new accessible ride at a local cab company. Get the full details about al the items on the agenda below… Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Accessibility Advisory Committee for April 15, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for March 6, 2025

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It’s been a busy couple of months so far in 2025 for Heritage Guelph, and March is no exception. In fact, this agenda is stacked with stuff that they didn’t have the time to cover at last month’s meeting! Among those items are the future of a major piece of infrastructure downtown and the potential proactive designation of several buildings at the U of G, but in new business the committee will take a long look at Paisley Street. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for March 6, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Board of Health Meeting for March 5, 2025

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This month at the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health meeting, we dig into a variety of concerns including privacy, communicable diseases, and drinking. Yes, the major presentation for this meeting is about how much and how often people in our region say they need a drink or many drinks, and whether or not they’re fully aware of the health impacts of that. So let’s dig into the agenda for some of the details. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Board of Health Meeting for March 5, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Grand River Conservation Membership Meeting for February 28, 2025

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This month, the Grand River Conservation Membership meeting falls on the last day of the month, so what have they saved the best for last? Well they’ve certainly saved their budget for last out of all the area shared services, so we will get that final vote at this meeting. In other news, there will be some new tenders award and a vey wintery report about the current conditions in the watershed. Let’s see what all’s on the agenda. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Grand River Conservation Membership Meeting for February 28, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for February 20, 2025

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Coming up at this week’s Guelph Police Services Board meeting is something brief. In a manner, this month’s meeting is going to be all business, in that it’s all regular business with really noting controversial or unexpected. But sometimes it’s the small and quiet meetings that can lead to the greatest controversies, so will that be the case here? I guess we’ll find out. But for now, here’s the preview! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for February 20, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for February 25, 2025

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As usual, we’ve gotten to the last Monday of the month and that means it’s time to tuck in with the Guelph Public Library Board of Directors meeting. On this agenda, there’s actually a lot carried over from the last meeting, deferred reports that the board didn’t tackle in January, plus some new information about the work that staff did last year in service of the library. So let’s dig into the agenda for February! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for February 25, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for February 20, 2025

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It’s another month where there are two Heritage Guelph meetings, and like last month this second meeting will focus on matters of heritage conservation districts. Two this time! First up, committee will discuss in detail the proposed HCD for the core of the city, and then they will discuss the other HCD in process just slightly to the east of downtown in the area of Guelph more commonly called The Ward. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for February 20, 2025” →