As per the recently approved changes by Guelph City Council, there will be changes to the water rates begining on March 1. The bad news is, it’s going up; the good news though is that the increase is only coming to come out to less than $3 per month. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – City Announces New Water Rates for 2015”
How are you coping with our first official snow day of the winter? Well, the City of Guelph wants you to know that it’s coping okay and that city plows are out, in force, to keep the city going in the midst of the bitter cold and the foot of snow we received here in the Royal City overnight. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – City Plows to the Rescue After Storm”
It’s like David versus Goliath, only this time, David won! Earlier today, the City of Guelph’s Chief Administrative Officer Ann Pappert announced that an agreement has been reached with a group neighbours in Pine Ridge to keep a less than officially sanctioned local skating rink. The rink is technically on city land between two subdivisions in the south end, but all that kids having fun and enjoying exercise got on someone’s nerve, and they made some noise about it to city hall. Reacting the quickly, the city has announced that they’ve reach a short term solution that should make everyone in the area happy, allowing the kids to keep skating as the city keeps working toward some new permanent rules regarding the situation. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – Neighbourhood Gets to Keep Skating Rink”
As I was buttoning up the candidate questionnaires and looking ahead to election night through past election stats, I hit upon a question that interested me: How many of this year’s candidates have run before? Continue reading “Election Name Game – Who’s Run Before When?”
It’s fall and the election is full swing, but the fall also seems to bring with it new opportunity for scammers and ne’er-do-wells looking to swindle hard working Guelphites out of a few bucks. The City of Guelph sent out a warning yesterday that the old water treatment system fraud is back in town going door-to-door in an attempt to bamboozle Royal City citizens. If you are approached, and you think there’s something fishy about the offer, they’re advising you to get in touch with Guelph Police. Continue reading “City Warns of Door-to-Door Water Treatment Scammers”
As compared to evenst in Toronto, it was a fairly quiet final day to add one’s name to the ballot for next month’s municipal election. But as of 2 pm today, the ballot is set, and for better or worse, this is the slate of candidates for all positions – mayor, city councillor, and school board trustee. Here’s the final ballot for the election in all positions: Continue reading “The Guelph Ballot for the 2014 Municipal Election”
If you’re running for re-election to city council this is probably both good news and bad news. Good news because with the announcement of a settlement marks the end of what can liberally be called a debacle for the City of Guelph; but on the other hand it puts the issue right back on the front page as it were. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – City and Urbacon Settle Out of Court for Over $6.5 Million”
Considering that financial prudence (or lack there of) is going to be an issue in the municipal election, it came as somewhat suspicious that the City of Guelph would release the following press release on the Friday before the long weekend that official launches the campaign in earnest. Yes, the city wants to remind citizens that Standards & Poor’s has decided to continue our status as an AA+ credit rated municipality. That sounds pretty good, but will it be persuasive enough for city hall’s critics endorse the current administration when it comes time to case ballots? Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – City Touts Continually Strong Credit Rating”
Despite my personal opinion about the somewhat audacious idea of bringing online voting to the hometown of the robocall, the City of Guelph is moving full steam ahead with it in this year’s municipal election. If you’re at all interested in learning more about the nuts and bolts of the computer-assisted democracy, then city hall is having a tutorial next week and you’re invited to bring your favourite device along to see how it’s all going to work. Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE – City of Guelph Invites You to Learn to Vote Online”
From some it’s a return to normalcy, for others its the deafening end to a precious few months of peace and quiet. However you see the start of a new school year, it’s beginning again this weekend, and the city is responding to the influx with the implementation of the Safe Semester Program. Taken for a test drive last year and deemed a success, the program makes a comeback with one small change, and the hopes that the weekend flock to pub row downtown is run as smooth as humanly possible (given that many of those humans are deeply inebriated). Continue reading “Safe Semester Kicks Off Next Weekend”
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