We’ve made it to the end of the month! 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 January 28, 2025”
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?”
It’s another one of those times when city council schedules two meetings in one 24-hour period. We’ll worry about that second meeting another time, for now we’re all about planning matters, and at the first meeting on this subject this year there was a first look at a major new piece of policy, and a first look at a pretty major new development in the east end. So let’s get into all of that with this week’s recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Community Permits and One Big Development”
Are you ready to do some planning? 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 January 21, 2025”
After a long winter’s break, Guelph city council got back to business with two meetings this past week, one was entirely closed to the public but deeply impactful and the other was Committee of the Whole where some administrative stuff happened. Not irrelevant, that “stuff” included a co-ordinated plan to petition upper levels of government about the issues that matter to Guelph. But for now, what matters is this recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Back to Work!”
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?”
Have you missed city council recaps? They’re baaaaaaack. 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 January 14, 2025”
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?”
Last year was very busy for Guelph City Council, and the last four months of the year were perhaps the busiest. In fact, the business of council has gotten so busy to properly cover it all this “Year in Review” podcast now has to be done in three parts, splitting the year into three near equal sections for over two hours of combined content. So now, at the end, the final part of this trilogy. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #450 – The Year at Council (September – December)”
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?”
