After a long year, the final council meeting of 2016 will tackle reports from the Committee-of-the-Whole earlier this month, along with committee appointments and an update on the Guelph Innovation District. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the December 19 Meeting?”
Moving forward with plans for the IMACo site, and the review of the province’s plans for updating the Ontario Municipal Board are on the table for this final planning meeting of the year. You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here to read Politico’s preview of tonight’s meeting. For the complete blow-by-blow of tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow along below via Storify. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for December 12, 2016”
On budget night, there was an unusual request amongst the potential expenditures presented by the councillors. The honour went to Ward 6’s Mark MacKinnon who proposed that the City spend $20,000 to live stream the city council meetings on the City of Guelph website, and though the motion got voted down by the rest of council, MacKinnon still thinks that it was potentially $20,000 that would have been well spent considering the return on investment in enhancing our democracy. Continue reading “MacKinnon Still Considers Cost to Stream Council Meets Reasonable”
It’s that time of year to get together again with old friends, and our local Member of Parliament is looking to get together with you. Lloyd Longfield sent out notice of a couple of important dates coming up where he’s inviting Guelphites to see him and talk in person. Meanwhile, a local advocacy group wants to talk to Longfield en masse about a promise maybe he and the Liberals aren’t keep… Continue reading “2 Dates Lloyd Longfield Wants You to Know About, and 1 He Maybe Doesn’t”
Hard to believe, but it’s been almost a year since the Guelph Mercury went out of business, and it’s a void that has still yet to be completely filled, even in spite of the best efforts of some people. But forget breaking news, and forget about the play-by-play at city council meetings just for a minute. News doesn’t happen in a void, and not every story – even most stories – is self-contained with a beginning, middle and end. Context. News is useless without it, but where can we now get it? Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #59 – Bill Hulet, Guelph Back-Grounder”
So you might have followed along last night with the Guelph Politico live-blog of the council meeting, or you may have watched it on Rogers, or read some of the articles online this morning. For me, I wanted clarity on a couple of issues, so I reached out to James Krauter, Acting City Treasurer and General Manager of Finance, for his expertise. Continue reading “#GuelphBudget Follow-Up: The State of Transit and Levy Timeline”
As you may know, Ward 3 Councillor Phil Allt will be absent from today’s #GuelphBudget meeting because he’d rather be selfish and go to the hospital and donate a kidney to his ailing brother. (Just kidding, of course.) So while Allt takes care of some family business, he leaves these thoughts about the City’s business, and what he thinks the priorities for the 2017 budget should be. Continue reading “Allt-ernative Budget Thoughts”
This is it! The #GuelphBudget for 2017 comes down to the decisions that council makes today starting at 2 pm. You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here to read Politico’s preview of tonight’s meeting. For the complete blow-by-blow of tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow along below via Storify. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for December 7, 2016”
The final planning meeting of city council for 2016 will deal with a couple of big issues including a certain blighted site in Ward 1, and one of the most controversial agencies in the province. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the December 12 Meeting?”
Money matters, mother nature and the city’s pets are all hot topics for the last Committee-of-the-Whole meeting of the year. You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here to read Politico’s preview of today’s meeting. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s committee meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow along below via Storify. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: Committee of the Whole for December 5, 2016”
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