4.5%

City of Guelph 2008 Operating and Capital budgets highlights:
20 Minute bus service
Funding for Hospice Wellington and Guelph General Hospital’s MRI
Increased life cycle reserve

Council Duo Rated ‘Perfect’

The follwoing article appeared in the January 15 edition of the Guelph Tribune:
Councillors Lise Burcher and June Hofland will be the envy of students all over Guelph.
Their voting records over the past year have earned them 100 per cent scores from the Guelph Civic League, which has released an election-style report on how city councillors [...]

Guelph City Council Voting Record 2007

The Guelph Civic League has gathered the votes from city council’s first year and compared them with the values that their members told them that were most important in 2007.
2007 Voting Record

Guelph City Council introduces electronic voting

System improves transparency by recording each member’s vote
Guelph City Council used an electronic voting system for the first time last night at its Council meeting. Under the system, members of Council vote in favour or against a motion by pressing the appropriate button, and the overhead screen displays how each individual voted. All votes other [...]

Council Voting Record September 4, 2007

Moved by Councillor Kovach
Seconded by Councillor Beard
THAT staff be directed to set up a reserve called “Heritage Redevelopment Reserve” in order to support requests for financial  assistance to help offset costs associated with the remediation and the retention of heritage features, and as an investment.
A recorded vote was requested which resulted as follows:
VOTING IN FAVOUR: [...]

Council Voting Record August 13, 2007

Moved by Councillor Burcher
Seconded by Councillor Laidlaw
THAT the City of Guelph object to the current application by River Valley Developments Inc. for a change to their Aggregate Pit License No. 5672 in order to double the annual extraction limit to 1,000,000 tonnes from the DoLime Pit, Township of Guelph/
AND THAT Council reaffirms its position passed [...]

Council Voting Record July 16, 2007

Moved by Councillor Laidlaw
Seconded by Councillor Beard
THAT Council approves the Museum Board recommendation relocate the Guelph Civic Museum to the Loretto Convent;
AND THAT staff be directed to negotiate an agreement with the Diocese of Hamilton on the terms outlined in the Loretto Convent report dated July 11, 2007 and report back through Committee with the [...]