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”
The last meeting of September will present you, the Guelph resident, the opportunity to revisit just about anything previously discussed at this month’s two Committee of the Whole meetings (at least one of them hasn’t happened yet as of the publishing of this preview). From downtown renewal to second quarter financials to a possible renoviction bylaw, here’s your second bite at the apple! Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the September 24, 2024 Meeting?”
Although there’s been a couple of meetings in the last few weeks, the fall session began properly this week with the first of two Committee of the Whole meetings this month. There were really only two things on the agenda, one a matter of diversity and inclusion and the other a matter of major infrastructure renewal. So let’s dig in to the two “recons”, reconciliation and reconstruction, on this week’s recap! Continue reading “This Week at Council: Renew Kids on the Block”
Back to business as usual on city council! 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 September 4, 2024”
Committee of the Whole is back to start the last third of the year with a jam-packed agenda. September may be “Back to School” time, but at city council it’s back to Downtown Renewal time with a five-pack of reports covering all manner of issues in the core including waste collection, washrooms, and heritage. Also, there will be lots of recognition for staff, and some formal recognition for our Indigenous community. Continue reading “Committee of the Whole Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the September 4, 2024 Meeting?”
Two Heritage Guelph meetings in the same month? What a treat! This one will focus on one of the two ongoing Heritage Conservation District studies happening now at the city, the one that’s focused on Downtown. Once again, the heritage committee will be asked to bring their discerning eye to the plan so far, including the proposed boundaries for the exact area of the district. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for January 29, 2024”
Two Heritage Guelph meetings in one month?! It happened. The second meeting for September had a couple of different issues, one was a demolition request for a property in the City’s (still) only Heritage Conservation District, and the other was the opening findings for what might be a future Heritage Conservation District. The one downtown. What are stakes? Let’s revisit that in the recap… Continue reading “RECAP: Heritage Guelph Shares First Thoughts About Downtown HCD”
Two Heritage Guelph meetings in the same month?! This might be Christmas for all the history nerds out there, but this second meeting of the month comes with a couple of very specific purposes. On the one hand, there’s a demolition to talk about in the city’s current heritage district, and on the other there’s going to be some initial goal setting to talk about for the city’s newest heritage district. Let’s get into the specifics… Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Heritage Guelph Meeting for September 18, 2023”
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