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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?” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #447 – The Strong Mayor Year (feat. Cam Guthrie)

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What do you think this year will be remembered for in the annals of Guelph history? Will it be the debate over the Public Space Use Bylaw? Was it the announced closure of the consumption and treatment site downtown? Was it when the mayor re-opened the 2025 budget to try and shave off two-thirds of the proposed levy increase? In any event, all roads lead back to one place, or rather, one person. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #447 – The Strong Mayor Year (feat. Cam Guthrie)” →

This Week at Council: The Epic Season Finale!

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Two epic meetings in less than 24 hours! This is how the council year ended with a slate of controversial items from changes to planning policy to statements of intent from council. First, at the planning meeting, there was a last ditch effort to save the historic greenhouse at the University of Guelph and at the regular meeting on Wednesday, some councillor looked to dissent from the mayor’s public statements. All that and more on this last recap of the year! Continue reading “This Week at Council: The Epic Season Finale!” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for December 11, 2024

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It’s the epic year two finale of this term of city council! 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 December 11, 2024” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for December 10, 2024

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A packed planning meeting before Christmas holidays! 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 December 10, 2024” →

This Week at Council: Not Much to See

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It’s been a fairly action-packed couple of weeks a city council, and there are at least a couple of action-packed meetings left on the schedule for 2024, so maybe it’s nice that we got an easy week in the chambers with a couple of laid back, fairly administrative items that we get this time every year. So let’s sit back and relax and take in a lazy week at council with this Committee of the Whole recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Not Much to See” →

RECAP: Committee of the Whole Meeting for December 4, 2024

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It’s the last Committee of the Whole meeting of 2024! 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: Committee of the Whole Meeting for December 4, 2024” →

This Week at Council: Heritage, Integrity and Budget in 24 Hours or Less!

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Three meetings in 24 hours! It kind of sounds like a gimmick, but that’s the way the schedule shook out this past week with the continuation of the November 13 planning meeting, the regular meeting of council and then the budget confirmation meeting. There were some interesting new developments, some predictable hiccups, and at least one big surprise, and capturing it all is this week’s council recap post… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Heritage, Integrity and Budget in 24 Hours or Less!” →

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?” →