It was a laidback meeting this week at city council as they tucked in around the horseshoe for a workshop meeting. The topic was operations facilities, and the need to lay the infrastructure that will enable the continued electrification of transit. The present bus barn is horribly out of date; not enough space, and not enough capacity to charge more than a couple of buses at a time, but there is a plan! Let’s check out the recap… Continue reading “This Week at Council: Transit, It’s Electric!”
Get ready to workshop again! 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 June 17, 2025”
At June’s planning meeting, a lot of ground was covered but there were two primary modes. First, there were a lot of heritage files needing some work, including the latest heritage conservation district and a couple of individual designations that were unexpectely controversial. And then there was the Princess Auto file, an interesting confluence of confusing planning rules that nearly scuttled the future Guelph location of that chain. Here’s the recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: The Princess Auto Diaries”
If it’s June, then that means it’s time for the annual shareholder meetings of Guelph Municipal Holdings Inc. and Guelph Junction Railway. Guelph City Council is the one and only shareholder of both these corporations and every sixth month of the year they sit in a special meeting to hear the financial information and governance updates from both companies. Well, it’s that time again, so let’s dig into the updates! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 24 Shareholder Meetings?”
June comes to end, at least in terms of council business, with the usual midyear visit from the external auditor. That’s pretty much the one major piece of business for this month’s regular meeting of council, but there will be another crack at the Committee of the Whole agenda, and there will some more actions concerning the filling of a recent council vacancy. After tonight, there’s just one more month till summer vacation! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 24, 2025 Meeting?”
Planning is buffet at this month’s 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: City Council Meeting for June 10, 2025”
At the June Committee of the Whole meeting we spent almost as much time waiting for the meeting to begin as we spent in the meeting. There was some important stuff on the agenda, but it seems that it was pretty straightforward; employee engagement, the review of Community Benefit Agreements, and more on Corporate Asset Management were all topics needing discussion and decision, so how did it all turn out? Continue reading “This Week at Council: The Waiting *Was* the Hardest Part”
The third Tuesday of June is reserved for a special meeting of council, a workshop. The topic this time is one that’s near and dear to some of our hearts: Transit. For years there’s been a project in the works that involves the electrification of the transit fleet, and it’s been a moving target that’s changed a lot over the last five years. Buckle up because we’re going to try again on operations facilities! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 17, 2025 Meeting?”
It’s summer in the city and busy in the council chambers! 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 June 3, 2025”
It’s a big agenda for the planning meeting this June! More heritage designations, two new proposals, and the finished guidelines for the now Ward Heritage Conservation District is on the agenda, as well as a discussion about provincial policy! Is this going to be a “bring your pjs” kind of night at city council? It might be but it depends on how many people have ideas about these pretty big projects! Learn more about them below! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the June 10, 2025 Meeting?”
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