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RECAP: Too Many Unanswered Questions About CTS Closure Impact at Social Services

Published on Oct 9, 2024Oct 9, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

Some questions were answered, but other questions lingered as this month’s meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee wrapped up. It wasn’t all bad news, of course. There are, it seems, some good things that are going to come out the propose HART HUB, but the exact impact from the closure of the consumption and treatment site is still hard to know. For all that information, and more, check out the recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Too Many Unanswered Questions About CTS Closure Impact at Social Services” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for October 9, 2024

Published on Oct 4, 2024Oct 8, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

It’s going to be another busy meeting of the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee as they look at the present, near-future and a post-safe consumption site future in Guelph next spring. What’s in a HART Hub? You will find out at this meeting, and you will also get updates about the Delhi housing project, childcare fees for next year, and 2024 budget actuals, plus advocacy for what the County wants to do next on some big issues. Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for October 9, 2024” →

RECAP: Social Services Hears Winter Plans and Want More OW Support

Published on Sep 11, 2024Sep 15, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

The Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance got back to business after taking the summer off, so that meant there was a lot of business to get back to. Near the top in terms of importance is the Winter Response Plan and how unhoused people are going to be helped in the month’s to come, but there was also a rather lively discussion about the need for more money for Ontario Works recipients. Here’s the recap! Continue reading “RECAP: Social Services Hears Winter Plans and Want More OW Support” →

MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for September 11, 2024

Published on Sep 6, 2024Sep 10, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

After a summer break, the Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee will be meeting for something significantly smaller than their last gathering in June, but no less important. On this agenda, there’s winter! There’s also some money matters in all three areas of social services coverage and future plans for childcare funding in the new year. Plus, there will be some of the usual updates, so take a look at what’s coming up at the county! Continue reading “MEETING PREVIEW: Joint Social Services and Land Ambulance Committee Meeting for September 11, 2024” →

This Week at Council: Tiny Homes, Tiny Progress

Published on Jul 21, 2024Jul 22, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

With council wrapping up for the summer it shouldn’t be surprising that we’ve come back around to one of the biggest ongoing challenges: Creating more housing. More specifically, in this case, we’re looking at the creation of a tiny home encampment somewhere in the city. Long in the works, council was presented with the opportunity to give a greenlight to the project. So what happened? Let’s recap. Continue reading “This Week at Council: Tiny Homes, Tiny Progress” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #427 – The Squeeze

Published on Jul 17, 2024Jul 16, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

The housing and affordability issues are massive, and to think that one action at one level of government is going to have a measurable impact is not understand that. This week at city hall, Guelph council will talk about proceeding with a tiny homes encampment, but that’s one finger in one hole of a dam that needs a lot of repairs. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #427 – The Squeeze” →

RECAP: City Council Meeting for July 16, 2024

Published on Jul 16, 2024Jul 17, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

The fate of the Guelph Tiny Home Coalition project is on the line. 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 July 16, 2024” →

GUELPH POLITICAST #426 – The Year at Committees So Far…

Published on Jul 10, 2024Jul 10, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

There’s a lot of work when it comes to the grind of municipal governance and policy development, but it doesn’t always start with city council (though it does often end with them). So on this episode of the podcast we’re going to try and cram six months of work by eight different committees into 30 minutes of audio, from the retirement of the library’s head to the debate over a bus chime to the ongoing issues around housing. Continue reading “GUELPH POLITICAST #426 – The Year at Committees So Far…” →

City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the July 16 Meeting?

Published on Jul 5, 2024Jul 14, 2024 by Adam A. DonaldsonLeave a comment

To this ongoing debate in our community that started with some discussions around the council table almost one-year ago, an ending. Since February, Mayor Cam Guthrie has been working hard to establish a Guelph version of A Better Tent City, and those efforts seem to have fallen on the square shoulders of the Guelph Tiny Home Coalition. They’ve already taken this to Wellington County, but now it comes back to our own council. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the July 16 Meeting?” →