Category: Council Preview

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Planning Meeting?

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This month’s planning meeting features no new developments, but it does lay the potential ground work for future developments. Coming up at this meeting is the first phase of how high we can go downtown, and another new community improvement plan. We will also hear about two objections to two different heritage designations, and, for a change of pace, we will talk about trains (on the same night as the GJR shareholder meeting)! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Planning Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Shareholder Meetings?

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A shareholder meeting? In February? Has the world gone topsy-turvy?! Not really. While it’s true that the shareholder meeting for both Guelph Municipal Holdings Inc. and Guelph Junction Railway is in June, there’s a kind of small but important piece that city council needs to do as the shareholder for both these organisations before they close out the fiscal year. Let’s get into it! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Shareholder Meetings?” →

Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 4, 2025 Meeting?

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It’s back to Committee of the Whole to start February with a meeting that shouldn’t make too many waves. The audit committee will take the wheel for most of this agenda, which will highlight the work of the internal auditor and it will also introduce council to a new policy to collect parking fines. And if all that isn’t scintillating enough, we will wrap up with a trip back to public services and paramedics. Let’s dig into it! Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 4, 2025 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 28, 2025 Meeting?

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The month at city council comes to a quick end with the regular meeting just two weeks after Committee of the Whole. On the agenda, aside from the ratification of the committee agenda, is an item for discussion in-camera and the approval of a grant funding agreement with the provincial government. Will there be any last minute controversy? Maybe, but for now you just get the preview of this meeting… Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 28, 2025 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 22, 2025 Meeting?

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Just when you thought it was safe to put your calculators away… The budget process for 2025 reaches its final phase with this meeting, the presentation and approval of the local boards and shared services budget. These are agencies that are important to Guelphites offering services and programs used everyday, but they are also the budgets that councillors have the least control over. So how much more will you have to pay? Let’s find out… Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 22, 2025 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 21, 2025 Meeting?

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Let’s start planning! For this first planning meeting of 2025, there are three big items on the agenda, one decision and two new proposals including one new piece of planning policy. From a new way to streamline planning processes, to a big new development in the east end, and a heritage demolition that might be substantially less controversial than other recent events, let’s dig into what’s being planned for planning this January. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 21, 2025 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 14, 2025 Meeting?

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You will never really see the first Guelph city council meeting of the year… Before Committee of the Whole, there’s going to be a special meeting of council where the horseshoe will meet entirely in-camera on one single topic. Why this special post about a meeting no one will see? Well, there’s some fairly important background on the topic you should keep in mind, and there might be some news about its future needing some context. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 14, 2025 Meeting?” →

Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 14, 2025 Meeting?

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Starting a week late following the Christmas holidays, council will meet for the first Committee of the Whole of 2025 and there will be a lot of place setting for what staff are working on for the next 12 months. In this agenda, the new CAO will lay out her agenda and then intergovernmental staff will lay out theirs when it comes to advocacy. Surprises? There may be a few! Let’s check out the preview! Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 14, 2025 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the December 10, 2024 Meeting?

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This is not going to be a laidback kind of planning meeting that will allow council to coast before the start of Christmas holidays. Get ready for a look at some major planning policy including affordable housing, fourplexes and the height of buildings downtown. Also, there will be more heritage drama and the approval of at least one new development. So with a lot of ground to cover, let’s preview the last planning meeting of 2024! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the December 10, 2024 Meeting?” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the December 11, 2024 Meeting?

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So this is going to be the last Guelph City Council meeting of 2024, and it’s going to be a little loose. Driving the agenda for this one are three different motions from three different members of council, but all around the central topic of dealing with homelessness, mental health and addictions. Put the coffee on though because this last meeting of the year is getting started on the early side! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the December 11, 2024 Meeting?” →