Future Ready? I guess we’re going to find out! 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 July 16, 2025”
Remember the Strategic Plan? You should because every report that comes to council details how it aligns with the Strategic Plan, but since you sometimes can’t see the forest for the trees, council meets once a year to get an update about how well (or how poorly) the City is meeting its goals when it comes to the four pillars of the Strategic Plan. This is that meeting, the real State of the City if you will… Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the July 16, 2025 Meeting?”
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”
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”
So it was a short city council meeting this week. Really short. Good thing then that we have some unfinished business from last week’s council business, the Local Boards and Shared Services budget for 2025. The actual business of passing the budget was, itself, brief, but there was a lot explaining about what the budget is paying for, especially in the case of social services, the library, and the police. So let’s dig into two meetings for the price of one. Continue reading “This Week at Council: Six Minutes and Five Seconds”
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”
It’s the last budget meeting of the year! Or the first. Depends on how you look at it! 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 this month’s Committee of the Whole meeting, follow the breakdown posted below, and you can also watch the City’s own live-stream of the meeting here. Continue reading “RECAP: City Council Meeting for January 22, 2025”
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”
Just when you thought it was safe to put your calculators away… The budget process for 2025 reaches its final phase with this meeting, the presentation and approval of the local boards and shared services budget. These are agencies that are important to Guelphites offering services and programs used everyday, but they are also the budgets that councillors have the least control over. So how much more will you have to pay? Let’s find out… Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the January 22, 2025 Meeting?”
The last meeting of the Guelph Public Library Board of Directors for 2024 (sadly), was a mostly straightforward affair. First, the board looked at the completed strategic plan for the next four years and then they spent 90 minutes in-camera talking about two different matters involving personnel, one brief and one kind of long. We can’t talk about what happens in-camera, but we can talk about the rest. Here’s the recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Library Board Approves Strat Plan Then Goes In-Camera for Last ’24 Meet”
