Tag: Committee Meeting

RECAP: It Was Another Good Year at the Library, Board Hears

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There’s always something new at the library, and people seem to like it. That was the message from the main report at this month’s Guelph Public Library Board meeting, which was the annual report about services and user information. There’s was also some internal board changes with new people in new positions, and the board approved a new way of making sure that they stay on task. For everything else, here’s the recap! Continue reading “RECAP: It Was Another Good Year at the Library, Board Hears” →

RECAP: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting Cancelled Due to Lack of Quorum

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Sadly, there was no Transit Advisory Committee meeting this month. When the appointed time came, four members of the committee arrived and took their seats, but they ended up one member short. After the requisite 15-minute wait, the meeting was formally cancelled, and all the great reports we were going to get are now lost like tears in the rain, or else delayed until the March meeting. Continue reading “RECAP: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting Cancelled Due to Lack of Quorum” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for February 20, 2025

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Coming up at this week’s Guelph Police Services Board meeting is something brief. In a manner, this month’s meeting is going to be all business, in that it’s all regular business with really noting controversial or unexpected. But sometimes it’s the small and quiet meetings that can lead to the greatest controversies, so will that be the case here? I guess we’ll find out. But for now, here’s the preview! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Police Services Board for February 20, 2025” →

RECAP: Accessibility Committee Wants Changes to Mobility and Taxi Programs

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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” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for February 25, 2025

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As usual, we’ve gotten to the last Monday of the month and that means it’s time to tuck in with the Guelph Public Library Board of Directors meeting. On this agenda, there’s actually a lot carried over from the last meeting, deferred reports that the board didn’t tackle in January, plus some new information about the work that staff did last year in service of the library. So let’s dig into the agenda for February! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for February 25, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for February 20, 2025

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It’s another month where there are two Heritage Guelph meetings, and like last month this second meeting will focus on matters of heritage conservation districts. Two this time! First up, committee will discuss in detail the proposed HCD for the core of the city, and then they will discuss the other HCD in process just slightly to the east of downtown in the area of Guelph more commonly called The Ward. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for February 20, 2025” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting for February 20, 2025

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Once again the Transit Advisory Committee will get together to talk about bus business in the City of Guelph. On the agenda this month are some pretty vital updates about key transit projects, especially around the issue of fares, and knowing when the bus is coming with near absolute certainty. That’s what we know we’re going to get, but there will also be some known unknowns as well. For right now, let’s look at what we do know… Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting for February 20, 2025” →

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: Library Board Looks to the Future and Fundraising

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As usual, a month of meetings ended at the Guelph Public Library, the main branch which is still on Norfolk Street, at least for another year-and-a-half (and maybe something about an opening date got spilled in this meeting?). For the most part, this meeting was about the future: The next few months of work on the new main library, the next few years for the board itself, and the future of fundraising. Let’s dig into library business in this recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Library Board Looks to the Future and Fundraising” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for January 27, 2025

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The last time that the Guelph Public Library Board of Directors got together, at least in the interest of doing library business, it was at the end of November. So it should come as no surprise then that there is going to be one packed agenda for this first meeting of 2025! Now let’s dig into a new year at the library and what to expect when the board sits down at the beginning of next week. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for January 27, 2025” →