City Council
Meeting Agenda

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This meeting will be held by Electronic Participation in accordance with City of Guelph Procedural By-law (2021)-20590.

  • Recommendation:

    That the Council of the City of Guelph now hold a meeting that is closed to the public, pursuant to the Municipal Act, to consider:

3.1
Disclosure of Pecuniary Interest and General Nature Thereof (closed items)
 

3.2
Confirmation of Minutes for the closed Council meeting held April 26, 2021 and the closed Committee of the Whole meeting held April 6, 2021
 

3.3
Non-union Municipal Employee Group Compensation Review - 2021-206
 

Section 239 (2)(d) of the Municipal Act relating to labour relations or employee negotiations.

3.4
Closed Report - June 2021 Public Appointments to Advisory Committees of Council - 2021-176
 

Section 239 (2)(b) of the Municipal Act relating to personal matters about an identifiable individual, including municipal or local board employees.

(Councillor Gibson)

  • Recommendation:

    That the minutes of the open Council Meetings held May 10, 17, 26 and 31, 2021, and the open Committee of the Whole meeting held May 3, 2021, be confirmed as recorded and without being read.

The following resolutions have been prepared to facilitate Council’s consideration of various matters and are suggested for consideration. If Council wishes to address a specific report in isolation of the Committee of the Whole Consent Report, please identify the item. It will be extracted and dealt with separately as part of the Items for Discussion.

  • Recommendation:
    1. That the Response Time Performance Plan for 2022 be set as recommended by staff.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That Council approve updating the Subsidy Policy to allow for the acceptance of additional income documents in order to grant subsidy access to people facing sudden or unexpected life-changing economic events.
    2. That a one-year pilot of a second-tier Subsidy Program estimated to be $250,000 be considered as part of the 2022 budget.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That the County of Wellington lead an annual intake process to recommend financial incentives from the Affordable Housing Reserve.
    2. That the County of Wellington recommend financial incentives for up to $1.5 million from the Affordable Housing Reserve in a 2021 Request for Proposal process.

Correspondence:
Christine Hykamp

  • Recommendation:
    1. That the Guelph Trail Master Plan dated May 2021, included as Attachment-1 to this report, be approved.
    2. That the funding requirements for the Guelph Trail Master Plan be considered in future operating and capital budgets in order to implement the recommendations of the master plan.
    3. That Project 12 identified in the Evaluation of Priority Projects Table of the Guelph Trail Master Plan be identified as an A ranking of potential phasing and that Staff be directed to report to Council within 6 months on short term actionable trail connectivity solutions related to this project.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That the City of Guelph retains the Guelph Sports Dome as a municipally-owned recreation facility asset for community use.
    2. That the Recreation Division of the Culture and Recreation Department operates, programs, rents, maintains, and budgets for the Guelph Community Sports Dome.
    3. That the Guelph Community Sports Dome operating budget be considered in the City’s 2022 budget and the capital budget requirements be updated in the capital forecast as appropriate.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That the General Operating and Capital Budget Policy be repealed and replaced with the Budget Policy as included in Attachment-1 of the Budget Policy Update report dated June 7, 2021.
    2. That the Budget Policy, as presented in the report titled “Budget Policy Update – 2021-172” and dated June 7, 2021, be amended to clarify that any revision to the budget in budget confirmation years be as a simple majority only and not a 2/3 “super majority”; and, that the City’s Procedural By-law be also amended accordingly.
  • Recommendation:

    That the Capital Program Resourcing Strategy, as described in report Capital Program Resourcing Strategy dated June 7, 2021, be approved.

The following resolutions have been prepared to facilitate Council’s consideration of various matters and are suggested for consideration. If Council wishes to address a specific report in isolation of the Consent Agenda, please identify the item. It will be extracted and dealt with separately as part of the Items for Discussion.

  • Recommendation:
    1. That_________ be appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Elliott for a three-year term ending June 2024, or until a successor is appointed.
    2. That _________, _________, and _________ be reappointed to the Community Grant Allocation Panel for a term ending November 2022 or until such time as a successor is appointed.
    3. That _________, _________, and _________ be reappointed to the Guelph Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors for a term ending November 2022 or until such time as a successor is appointed.
    4. That _________, _________, _________, _________, _________, ________, _________ and _________ be reappointed to the Natural Heritage Advisory Committee for a term ending November 2022 or until such time as a successor is appointed.
    5. That _________ and _________ be reappointed to the Property Standards Committee for a term ending November 2022 or until such time as a successor is appointed.
    6. That _________be reappointed to the Transit Advisory Committee for a term ending November 2022 or until such time as a successor is appointed.
    7. That _________ and _________ be appointed to the Waste Resource Innovation Center Public Liaison Committee for a term ending November 2022 or until such time as a successor is appointed.

The following items have been extracted from the Committee of the Whole Consent Report and the Council Consent Agenda and will be considered separately. These items have been extracted either at the request of a member of Council or because they include a presentation and/or delegations.

Resolution to adopt the By-laws (Councillor Goller).

Please provide any announcements, to the Mayor in writing, by 12 noon on the day of the Council meeting.

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