Shall we discuss long-term care? 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 “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for February 8, 2023”
There’s a lot of literal and figurative group to cover at this month’s committee meeting. 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 “LIVE BLOG: Committee of the Whole Meeting for February 7, 2023”
For February’s Heritage Guelph meeting, it feels like we’re resetting the table for the tricky years ahead. Two items will be before the committee this month, both already familiar to the public at large; Heritage Guelph will formally recommend the shape and size of the heritage district at the old jail lands, and then begin the busy work of saving as much heritage as they can in the next 24 months. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for February 13, 2023”
Workshop Wednesdays continues with one of the most basic areas of governance, the rules for running city council. To learn more about the rules and the acts governing them, this council session will bring in a special guest to lead council through everything they want to know and need to know about conflicts of interest and codes of conduct, and how to keep council’s whistle clean on both counts. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 15 Meeting?”
Happy Valentine’s Day, it’s a planning meeting! If you have a love for zoning, than this will be a holiday worth remembering as city council tackles a couple of decision reports, a sign bylaw variance request, and a brand new planning application that it almost definitely going to bring with it some controversy. Let’s dig into the reports from this first planning meeting of what will surely be a very busy 2023! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 14 Meeting?”
Over 850 people made their way to the Delta Hotel on Stone Road for the annual winter ritual of hearing the mayor talk. The Chamber of Commerce’s State of the City event for 2023 had the usual aspirational statements and hopeful outlook about the future, but it also came with a warning about the tough times ahead and the need to work together as a community to meet the challenges were all familiar with by now. Continue reading “Guthrie Drops Gimmicks for Serious Talk at State of the City”
Taking a break from some of the usual workshop discussion topics like the budget, council procedure, or the Strategic Plan, the spotlight for this workshop will be on long-term care homes. Did you know that the City Guelph oversees a long-term care home called the Elliott Community? The answer to that question is just the beginning of the story at this workshop meeting. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 8 Meeting?”
After creating a sensation on social media when it arrived at Guelph Transit HQ on Friday, the City of Guelph’s first electric bus pulled in front of City Hall so that members of city council and members of City senior staff could take a closer look. The new bus received rave reviews for its spaciousness and the relative silence inside the vehicle, but it’s still going to be a while before transit users will be able to check that out for themselves. Continue reading “City Staff, Council Take a Ride on the New EV Bus”
This was a very busy week at city council with three meetings, one of which was a super-long meeting indeed. Obviously, that long meeting concerned the confirmation vote for the 2023 budget, which saw council trying to balance community need with a hopefully smaller tax burden for the public. This balance was also kind of reinforced by another meeting this week, which looked at creating the next Strategic Plan. Continue reading “This Week at Council: New Strategic Plan Process Begins, and the 2023 Budget Confirmation”
February is the shortest month, but it may not mean the shortest committee agenda. After a typically slow January, this next Committee of the Whole meeting comes front loaded with big reports and big decisions in regard to several ongoing projects, from a new program to help get us to net-zero and the latest iteration of the City’s new operations facility. Plus, the administrative head of the City will look to the future…! Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the February 7 Meeting?”
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