The 2025 budget will reach its finale today! Or not… You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s council meeting, you can follow along on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for November 27, 2024”
And we reach the grand finale of this year’s budget confirmation process, or we don’t. This could be the end of the budget process, but on the other hand there might be vetos and the repeal of vetos, but those are problems for another day. This day is about amendments, councillors will be able to finally have their day and amend the now confirmed 2025 budget, and that’s where the proverbial fun begins. This preview will show us where we start from… Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the November 27, 2024 Meeting?”
After a two week break, council returned with back-to-back meetings that generated some conflict, including one surprising topic of controversy. Fireworks were back on the agenda, essentially so that council could ratify the direction they approved at Committee of the Whole, but things ended up going in a very different direction. Also, the 2025 budget with special edits directed by the mayor was introduced for the first time. Here’s the recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Fireworks Strike Back Before Budget”
The budget season begins! You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here for the Politico preview. For the complete blow-by-blow of today’s council meeting, you can follow along on Twitter, or follow the tweets below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for October 30, 2024”
It’s the most wonderful time of year for the Excel spreadsheet and fiscal discipline crowd: Budget Time! As with last year, this is the mayor’s budget, and his fingerprints are all over it after a directive earlier this year to shave the 2025 increase down to something around four per cent. Did City of Guelph staff do it, and what all ended up shaved in the end. Your budget season begins with this council preview! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the October 30, 2024 Meeting?”
Proving that summer vacation is winding down, the Grand River Conservation Authority membership board met for their August meeting Friday, and despite the month off they weren’t able to escape some of the controversies that chased them at the June meeting, especially around the topic of land acquisition and disposition. Also, there was some friction about delegation rules and some insight into flood control, which is all here in the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: GRCA Board Approves Changes to Land Acquisition and Disposition Policies”
After taking July off, the Grand River Conservation Authority membership gets back down to business with some fairly typical administrative matters. Look for the monthly budget update, some proposed changes to bylaws and new draft policies, and along with the current weather conditions, a report on some flooding that happened last month during those big rain storms. Let’s check out the breakdown of the agenda for August… Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Grand River Conservation Membership Meeting for August 23, 2024”
As we head to the end of the month, we get to our monthly meeting of the Grand River Conservation Authority membership board meeting. Nothing terribly Guelph-centric on the agenda for May, but there are more regulation and legislative changes to talk about that effect all us, plus there’s the monthly financial updates and a couple of new construction tenders to give out. Here’s the preview… Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Grand River Conservation Membership Meeting for May 24, 2024”
We welcome the first week of spring with an appropriate meeting, the monthly Grand River Conservation Authority membership board meeting! With spring practically here, it seems fitting that much of this month’s meeting agenda is dedicated to the awarding of construction tenders, including one locally for the new nature centre at Guelph Lake. Strap in though, because this is a packed agenda with a lot of business to tackle! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Grand River Conservation Membership Meeting for March 22, 2024”
If it’s February at the Grand River Conservation Authority then that means it’s time for the Annual General Meeting for the membership board, and if it’s the AGM, then that means it’s time for the final passage of the budget. Not much has changed with the budget in the last 30 days, just about half-a-million dollars or so, but there’s a lot of meeting to get through before the last word on the budget and that includes a lot of audit stuff. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Grand River Conservation Membership Meeting for February 23, 2024”
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