The budget season begins! 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: City Council Meeting for October 30, 2024”
After a two week break, we finally get back to business! 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: City Council Meeting for October 29, 2024”
It’s time again for the regular council meeting of the month, a chance to revisit all your favourite reports from Committee of the Whole, and there’s definitely one report this October that’s going to get a thorough revisiting. Oh yes, there will be fireworks again. Literally and figuratively. There’s also going to be a pretty epic meeting in closed, and then council will hold a little class election to shake-up Committee of the Whole meetings for the rest of the term. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the October 29, 2024 Meeting?”
This month’s planning meeting had only one immediate application, and it’s one of those projects that should be simple, and would be simple if the 2023 Comprehensive Zoning Bylaw amendment was in effect. Mostly though, this meeting was about the effort to create more affordable housing, first by exploring an affordable housing pilot project and then by discussing the new affordable housing strategy. For details, here’s the recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: The Quest for Affordable Housing Continues”
Get ready to plan! 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: City Council Meeting for October 8, 2024”
What do you think about fireworks? The report to Committee of the Whole this month painted a pretty clear picture that something needs to change when it comes to when, where and how we deal with fireworks in Guelph, but what kind of change is needed? That was the question that prompted a near even split between the councillors and they still have to get this passed at the end of the month too. For now, let’s dive into the recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Fireworks Over Fireworks”
Let’s get going on another month of council business! 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 October 1, 2024”
It was supposed to be a nice, smooth meeting. The only thing on the agenda were reports from Committee of the Whole meetings that needed to be ratified, and aside from the two or three delegations, this meeting should have been over and done quickly. And yet, sometimes when you think the meeting is over, it’s not really over, especially when a member of council has a very specific motion they want to table. Here’s the recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Last Minute Motion Drama”
There are many planning matters on the agenda for October, including matters of affordability in the city. Yes, there will be the introduction of a new housing affordability strategy, and some kind of affiliated pilot project, and in regular business there’s a new zoning bylaw amendment plus some grant money to chase and a piece of heritage recently moved from an old home to a new/old home! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the October 8, 2024 Meeting?”
One last crack at committee business before we move on to October! 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: City Council Meeting for September 24, 2024”
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