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MEETING PREVIEW: Accessibility Advisory Committee for February 18, 2025

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For the firs time in 2025, the Accessibility Advisory Committee will gather and discuss the goal of creating a barrier-free Guelph with another busy agenda. This month, the AAC will be focusing much of their attention downtown with a look at matters of history and matters of access when the summer comes around. So let’s dig into what’s coming up in the always interesting world of accessibility with this month’s AAC agenda! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Accessibility Advisory Committee for February 18, 2025” →

RECAP: City Council Shareholder Meeting for February 11, 2025

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Before the planning meeting, council will be a shareholder. You can click here and 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 Shareholder Meeting for February 11, 2025” →

This Week at Council: Internal Audit and Ambulance Affairs

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To start February (at least in terms of city council business), there was a consideration of the fairly unsexy but important business of the internal audit, including future value-for-money audits. But in the realm of the sexy, there was a discussion about the future needs of the Guelph Wellington Paramedic Service in terms of station locations and the constructions of those stations. Let’s dive into the recap!
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MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for January 8, 2025

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This February meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee will be a brief affair when compared to previous meetings, as this agenda will focus almost exclusively on housing files. As one construction projects wrap up, another one looks to get started, and then the committee will dig into reports on the present situation with unhoused people in the region, both short-term and long-term. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for January 8, 2025” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 19, 2025 Meeting?

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It’s been a while since we’ve had an orientation, or workshop, meeting of city council, so what have we got here? In a word: “Construction”. You probably know that old joke about how there are only two seasons in Canada, and as we now wallow in the depths of winter, city council will start looking to that other season, and there’s going to be a lot of it in the months and years to come. At this meeting, council will dig into all things construction! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 19, 2025 Meeting?” →

RECAP: Mayor Touts City Resilience and Future Concerns at State of the City

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The 2025 State of the City event at the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre is one of the first big community events of the year gathering folks from the business community, area non-profits and government reps and staff. Last year, Mayor Cam Guthrie used is a platform to announce his about face on Strong Mayor Powers, so we enter this year’s speech with some questions about what he might do now…. Which are answered in this recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Mayor Touts City Resilience and Future Concerns at State of the City” →

RECAP: Committee of the Whole Meeting for February 4, 2025

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It’s February, and you know what that means: audit and public services (apparently). 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 February 4, 2025” →

This Week at Council: Six Minutes and Five Seconds

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So it was a short city council meeting this week. Really short. Good thing then that we have some unfinished business from last week’s council business, the Local Boards and Shared Services budget for 2025. The actual business of passing the budget was, itself, brief, but there was a lot explaining about what the budget is paying for, especially in the case of social services, the library, and the police. So let’s dig into two meetings for the price of one. Continue reading “This Week at Council: Six Minutes and Five Seconds” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Shareholder Meetings?

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A shareholder meeting? In February? Has the world gone topsy-turvy?! Not really. While it’s true that the shareholder meeting for both Guelph Municipal Holdings Inc. and Guelph Junction Railway is in June, there’s a kind of small but important piece that city council needs to do as the shareholder for both these organisations before they close out the fiscal year. Let’s get into it! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 11, 2025 Shareholder Meetings?” →

Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 4, 2025 Meeting?

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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?” →