City targets downtown property

The following article appeared in the March 28 edition of the Guelph Mercury: 
The city has asked some downtown property owners if they would consider selling so a new central library could front onto Wyndham Street.
If buildings are acquired and presumably demolished, it would mean the new main library would be near, if not beside, the [...]

How do you build a public library in the age of Google?

A fight is brewing in Washington, D.C., between the city administration and preservationists concerning the District’s central public library. The architect of the Martin Luther King Jr. Library was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the seminal figures of the Modern movement, and while the ’60s-era black box is not one of the master’s [...]

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

Celebrating Guelph Public Library’s 125th

Celebrating 125 Years in Guelph

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 [...]

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 [...]

Guelph Nightlife Task Force

Much talk has been made of Guelph’s late night entertainment scene and it’s associated problems. Concern has been raised over excessive litter and debris(mainly fast food containers), noise, vandalism (broken store front windows) and occasional violence.
The stick:
A motion (moved by myself) passed at the Finance and Corporate Services Committee (FACS) directing staff to investigate the [...]