A short meeting for the end of a short month. The regular meeting of Guelph City Council for February had some promise for controversy with reports from the integrity commissioner and the lobbyist registrar, but it seems like council is just too well-behaved. (This year anyway.) We’ll get to that, and we will also get to all the other business that council didn’t want another bite at in this week’s recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: A Week for Report Cards”
This month at the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health meeting, we dig into a variety of concerns including privacy, communicable diseases, and drinking. Yes, the major presentation for this meeting is about how much and how often people in our region say they need a drink or many drinks, and whether or not they’re fully aware of the health impacts of that. So let’s dig into the agenda for some of the details. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Board of Health Meeting for March 5, 2025”
Oversight and audit are the themes of this last council meeting 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 February 26, 2025”
City council this week was a little more laid back, a little more informal. It’s been a while since council enjoyed some orientation, and last week they got some timely information about construction season. The requisite dad joke was made about how there are two seasons in Canada, winter and construction, and in the midst of one, council talked about the other, which was more interesting if you were an actual participant. Here’s the recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Construction is Coming”
The first couple of Committee of the Whole meeting this year have been pretty dry, but this March meeting is very stacked by comparison! First, there will be long awaited final report on changes to advisory committee of councils, and along with that there will be the mid-term review of governance at city council. And if that’s not enough, we’ll talk about water, traffic, and how we can get by better without single-use plastics! Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the March 4, 2025 Meeting?”
This week, council gets orientated! 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 BlueSky, 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 February 19, 2025”
In a remarkable turn of events, the Accessibility Advisory Committee finished work early in their first meeting of 2025! They still got a lot of work done though. They were consulted about heritage downtown and they had some comments about on-street accessible parking during the patio season, but the meat of the meeting was in the way the City of Guelph currently asks people with disabilities to apply for needed mobility services. Let’s recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Accessibility Committee Wants Changes to Mobility and Taxi Programs”
It was another three-pack of meetings at city council this week with two meetings where council sat as a shareholder of corporations owned by the City of Guelph, and then there was the monthly planning meeting. On that one, no specific projects were discussed, but there was a lot of policy covered including new grants for affordable housing, new heights for downtown, and maybe a new train connection in the region… Continue reading “This Week at Council: In the Heights, and Affordable Housing!”
And now we’ve come to the end of February – well, nearly – and we get to the last city council meeting of the month. At this gathering of Guelph’s civic leaders we will dig into the new reports focusing on political and administrative oversight, and we will also revisit Committee of the Whole business assuming that anyone has any lingering questions. Let us take a look at what to expect from this regular meeting of council for this second month of the year! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 25, 2025 Meeting?”
It was a comparatively light agenda at the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee meeting for February on Wednesday, good thing because some in attendance wanted to outrun an incoming winter storm. The primary focus was matters of housing, specifically the state of homelessness in the region. Committee heard about the December report on the winter response plan and the Point in Time Count, and now you can hear about them too with this recap! Continue reading “RECAP: JSSLAC Gets the Point in Time Count and Gets Winter Update”
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