This week. city council came back from an inexplicable two-week break and sat again as Committee of the Whole. For this edition, there were two main focuses, one had to do with billing for water and wastewater servicing, and the other concerned more downtown construction work! Read on to learn how a very busy intersection at the eastern end of downtown is going to get a facelift in the years to come in this week’s recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Allan’s Bridge is Coming Down!”
This month’s meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee was a bit laid back. There was an update about the budget, but the meat of the meeting – so to speak – were two matters, one is a request for more protections in the Criminal Code to protect first responder, and second it was an update about making sure there’s a childcare space for everyone who needs it. Let’s did into the play-by-play with the recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Childcare and Protecting Paramedics on the Agenda at JSSLAC”
Back to city council with another Committee of the Whole 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 during the meeting on Blue Sky or recap the complete thread after the meeting below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: Committee of the Whole Meeting for October 7, 2025”
It looks like a slow month at the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee with reports concerning finances, an update about progress on Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System, aka: $10 per day childcare, and a special request from the Mayor of Guelph. Let us now look ahead to another Wednesday afternoon in the Guthrie Room (no relation) at that castle-looking building on Woolwich Street. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for October 8, 2025”
Leave some room for a feast at October’s planning meeting because Guelph City Council is going to be served a five course meal of materials with this next agenda. So what’s coming up? Well, there will be a decision on one big project proposal, and there will be some early moves for a new project down the street from it. There will also be heritage district talk, some timeline extensions, some proposed changes to the Official Plan and maybe some surprises(?). Let’s check out the agenda… Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the October 15, 2025 Meeting?”
There’s not as much action at October’s Heritage Advisory Committee as you might expect as we’re counting down to the deletion of all properties listed on the heritage registry. Still, one proposed designation has made the cut for discussion while a property owner living in the city’s one current heritage district wants to make some changes. Let’s dig into the brief agenda for this month’s heritage brief. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Advisory Committee Meeting for October 2, 2025”
After a couple of weeks off, council gets back to work in the chambers again for the October Committee of the Whole meeting. This month, there will be some points of interest as more future construction downtown comes up for discussion, and so does a change to how residents are billed for water. There’s also some administrative moves including new names for new parks, and the usual staff recognitions. Check out all the details below… Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the October 7, 2025 Meeting?”
If you thought last week at Guelph City Council was busy you won’t believe how straightforward everything was this week! At the regular council meeting for September there were some new committee appointments, and there was some appreciation for Guelphites doing great things, but the biggest item had to do with salt, the variety that you use on the road in winter. For all the details, check out the recap below. Continue reading “This Week at Council: No Salt Added at Regular Meeting”
School kids and teachers aren’t the only ones that get a summer vacation. City council, and those that cover them, also get a summer break, at least when it comes to the monthly meeting schedule. We now have a couple of weeks of meetings under our belt since August ended, but for this week’s podcast we’re going back in time to business at council before summer vacation. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #486 – The Year at Council So Far: Part 2 (May-July 2025)”
Council has the regular meeting a couple of weeks early! 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 during the meeting on Blue Sky or recap the complete thread after the meeting below. You can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for September 16, 2025”
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