Category: Council Preview

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Regular Meeting on April 25?

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The regular council meeting for April, marks a return to regular order, at least in terms of council’s usual start time. Welcome back, night owls! In terms of content, council will revisit some of their Committee of the Whole decisions, plus they will look at making some new committee appointments and then potentially offer some local support to a province-wide call for an ally in Ontario municipal governance.  Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Regular Meeting on April 25?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 26 Meeting?

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To end this April’s worth of council meetings, there’s this new orientation session that will focus on getting around. What’s currently going on with the movement of people around the city? What are we doing to make your roads safer for everyone regardless of how they’re moving around? What’s in the works from Guelph Transit? You can’t say that all questions will be answered, but many of them will be.  Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 26 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Workshop Meeting on April 25?

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We begin a busy week at city council with an appropriately big project back on the front burner. After taking a break these last couple of months as the consultants worked, city council will revisit their work on the Strategic Plan, now in draft form. What will this council decide to make their major goals for the next four years, and can they all agree on going in the same direction? Let’s find out! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the Workshop Meeting on April 25?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 18 Meeting?

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This month’s planning meeting, again delayed a week because of a special occasion, will be a pretty big one. It’s not because of the heritage designation or the request for a sign bylaw variance, but because after four years of work the Comprehensive Zoning Bylaw is finally ready for approval. It’s been nearly 30 years since this piece of regulation has been formally updated, and this month, we have arrived at the end. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 18 Meeting?” →

Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 4 Meeting?

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The first Committee of the Whole meeting for spring brings some cleaning to the council chambers. New, long-in-the-works plans will finally come before the horseshoe for consideration, and will cover the topics of water and transit. Speaking of cleaning, a key bit of government policy will get some streamlining, and committee will hear about another year of good water quality. This is what’s on the agenda for April’s Committee of the Whole meeting. Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the April 4 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 29 Meeting?

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Parking. We love and we hate and we have to deal it, and in downtown Guelph there are a lot of complications if you want to increase parking, or even if you don’t. In this latest council workshop, the horseshoe will look at the parking issues facing the core, and the ways that the might be overcome in the years to come by unpacking all the old challenges and some of the new ones. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 29 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 28 Meeting?

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This regular meeting of council will hold no real surprises (except, perhaps, the start time). Council will ratify the Committee of the Whole agenda, and there may be some attempted adjustments made there on a couple of items, and there’s a surprise additional topic to be considered as part of the consent agenda. Also, come early for a special second meeting on an entirely different subject. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 28 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 22 Meeting?

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How do we strengthen Guelph’s economy and bring back some of those sweet tourism dollars? This is a question that’s preoccupied the economic development offices at City Hall lately, and now city council will be brought up to speed on the progress to re-commit to the expansion of Guelph’s economy and how best we might be able to attract visitors to the city in this very special council workshop. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 22 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 21 Meeting?

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After March Break, council will sit down for this month’s relatively thin planning meeting with two items on the agenda. One is about approving a plan for a seniors’ residence in the south end, but the major one concerns a pretty big piece of land. What are council’s thoughts about the work done so far on the Heritage Conservation District plan for the Ontario Reformatory Lands? We’re going to find out! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 21 Meeting?” →

Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 7 Meeting?

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It’s a jammed-packed agenda at March’s Committee of the Whole meeting; dare we say there’s something for everyone? From the desk of Corporate Services we’ve got some budget information. From Public Services we’re going to hear more about trees and AirBnBs. And then, it’s the big one, how we’re going to build the South End Community Centre with all the economic pressures. All that, and there’ll be some Audit stuff too. Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 7 Meeting?” →