Guelph City Budget

Dear sir;
Until such a time as the City’s aging infrastructure is properly addressed,and the City is in a better financial position, capital expenditures such as a new library and a new museum should be take right off the table and placed on the back burner. This is something tax payers can’t afford and really don’t [...]

Infrastructure shortfall needs $25M injection

The following article appeared in the January 31 edition of the Guelph Mercury: 
The city would have to raise taxes by about 18 per cent to pay off its infrastructure gap in a single year.
Of course, that would never happen.
But it goes a long way toward illustrating just how big the problem is.
Councillors heard last night [...]

Priority Setting Process Questions and Answers

Q. How did you arrive at this list of priorities?
A. The list of priorities was derived from an open review of over 200 existing, pending and new project priorities which account for approximately 10-20% of the city’s resources and capacity. The two review meetings took place in the fall.
Meeting 1: October 19, 2007 at the [...]

Ward 2 Town Hall Meeting Update

Councillor Beard and myself would like to thank all of those who attended our first Ward 2 Town Hall meeting. It was a great success with approximately 80 people in attendance. We would also like to thank our valued staff for their participation.
Martin Lavictoire and Wayne Galliher presented an overview on Guelph’s water conservation programs, [...]

DC’s and the South End Recreational Centre

There is a growing and very vocal number of residents living in the south end of Guelph advocating for a new recreational centre to be built as soon as possible.
Currently, the City of Guelph has in it’s capital budget, construction of a new south end rec centre sometime in 2014. The projected cost of the rec centre is [...]

You take a library from the bottom

The following article appeared in the January 5 edition of the Guelph Mercury:
It’s like an elaborate game, perhaps of dominoes, or maybe Jenga — how do you take a block from the bottom and put it on top without the entire structure collapsing? A couple of rounds of meetings have already happened, and there’s more [...]

The branding of Guelph: Part 3, City in a festive mood

The following article appeared in the December 14 edition of the Guelph Mercury:
Tourism services looking to develop additional events
Ribfest and Hillside may be getting some company.
That’s because the city is eyeing a new festival for the Royal City as a means of attracting tourism.
There’s no money earmarked for the initiative yet, but city staff have [...]