Before taking a break for summer vacation, Heritage Guelph took care of a couple of major pieces of new business. There are some big changes coming to the Homewood Health Centre, and it’s going to impact a beloved heritage building on the site. In other news, there are more heritage designations coming down the pipe for formal approval by city council, including a well known building on campus. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Heritage Guelph Greenlight Homewood Changes”
No summer vacation (yet?) for Heritage Guelph, it turns out that there’s just too much heritage stuff going on. At this meeting, there’s more heritage to preserve, more approvals to send to council, and there’s also a construction project at one of Guelph’s most well-known heritage buildings (although it’s likely one that you’ve never been to). Here’s the July work load for Heritage Guelph…. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for July 8, 2024”
It was a long summer night at the Guelph Public Library Board meeting thanks to a marathon closed sessions where they got a report about the CEO search so far. After that, the board got into matters of upgrading branches and upgrading the Strategic Plan, and then they looked back at the year in programming and the year-end financials before wrapping up for the summer. And now, for you, here’s the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Library Board Reviews Programming and Financials”
Before heading out on summer vacation, the Transit Advisory Committee got some good news and it involved expanding Sunday service to include on-demand buses in the very near future. That’s one of the nuggets from this recent meting of Guelph’s transit advisory board who met in the newly renovated meeting room at Transit’s head office on Watson Road. What other news was there from these shiny new digs? Check out the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: TAC Checks Out Renovated Digs at Transit HQ”
In their last meeting before summer vacation, the Guelph Public Library Board is going to have a lot of ground to cover. There will be follow up about previous reports on the work needed to update the various branches along with some of the usual monthly reports, and there will also be new information about the end of the yer financials and programming matters. And just in time for a little summer day dreaming, the board will look to the year 2029! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Guelph Public Library Board for June 24, 2024”
The Accessibility Advisory Committee spent a great deal of their June meeting talking about what they mean when it comes to intersectionality, and how best City of Guelph staff can monitor that. Tough questions, and they sort of got an answer before proceeding to a decision about that new Transit chime, and then looking at a new trail in the north end, and a pedestrian bridge just a little down the road from there. Here’s the recap…. Continue reading “RECAP: The AAC Chooses a Chime and Finds Common Ground on Intersectionality”
We get a change of venue at this month’s Transit Advisory Committee meeting. Coming to you live from the newly renovating meeting room at Transit’s head office on Watson Road, the committee will get the usual updates about operations, the EV roll out, and rider feedback, plus there will be an update about that new chime that will herald special announcements on buses. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Transit Advisory Committee Meeting for June 20, 2024”
There was a special meeting of Guelph city council last month that was essentially about a mayoral directive to explore a temporary structured encampment. Council then decided to focus on a project already in progress, the Guelph Tiny Home Coalition, and the matter was referred to a meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee. This meeting. To learn about what happened next, you need to consult this meeting recap… Continue reading “RECAP: County Staff Will Report Back to City Council About Tiny Homes Next Month”
The Accessibility Advisory Committee is back on its regular schedule in June with a well-rounded selection of topics. Committee will follow up on some work they began this time last year, and then they will follow-up on some action items from a few months ago (hope you like some discussion about bus chimes). Also, more feedback will be sought about some of the upcoming ways of getting around town. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Accessibility Advisory Committee for June 18, 2024”
There were already thoughts about the June meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee in May when a housing matter came to Guelph City Council for discussion. Now in the realm of the County of Wellington, Temporary Structured Encampments will get further discussion, but will it get any further direction? Also, it’s just one of several housing related items on this last agenda before summer vacation. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for June 12, 2024”
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