City Council
Revised Meeting Agenda

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Council Chambers
Guelph City Hall, 1 Carden Street

Changes to the original agenda are noted with an asterisk "*".

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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 2023 City of Guelph property tax ratios and corresponding tax rates, as set out in Attachment-2 to the report 2023-89 titled 2023 Property Tax Policy dated March 7, 2023, be approved.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That the One Canopy Tree Planting Strategy (TPS) dated January 2023, included as Attachment-1 to this report, and the proposed actions and recommendations noted within the plan be approved.
    2. That the funding requirements for the One Canopy Tree Planting Strategy be considered in future operating and capital budgets in order to implement the recommendations of the strategy.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That the construction of the South End Community Centre be approved for a project cost of $115.5 million, with the project scope as approved under the October 7, 2020 report.
    2. That additional budget of $35.5 million be approved for project RF0092 South End Community Centre Construction, funded $33,725,000 from Parks and Recreation Development Charge Reserve Fund (#319) and $1,775,000 from tax supported debt funded from the Infrastructure Renewal Reserve Fund (#150).
  • Recommendation:
    1. That report titled ‘Internal Audit Work Plan 2023- 2025’ dated March 7, 2023 be approved.
  • Recommendation:

    That the 2022 and 2023 operating budget for Paramedic Services be updated and approved by Council as shown in Table 1 in CS-2023-104 COVID-19 General and Vaccine Expense Grant - Paramedic Services.

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.

  • Recommendation:

    That By-laws numbered (2023) - 20782, (2023) - 20785 through (2023) - 20789 are hereby passed.

A by-law to confirm the proceedings of meetings of Guelph City Council held March 21, 22 and 28, 2023

A by-law to repeal By-law (2022) – 20780, and amend By-law (2022) – 20698 – Traffic By-law, as amended, being a By-law to regulate the use of Highways within the City of Guelph and the Traffic and Parking thereon.

A By-law to set tax ratios and tax rate reductions for prescribed property subclasses for the Corporation of the City of Guelph for the year 2023.

A By-law to levy education tax rates for the year 2023.

A By-law to impose and levy a rate of taxation for the Board of Management for the Downtown Business Improvement Area of the City of Guelph for the 2023 taxation year.

A By-law to set the tax rates for City purposes for the year 2023 and to provide for a final tax levy and the payment of taxes.

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

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