City Council
Revised Meeting Agenda

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

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

(Councillor Allt)

  • Recommendation:

    That the minutes of the open Council Meetings held April 12, 14, 19, 21, and 26, 2021, and the open Committee of the Whole meeting held April 6, 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 That By-law Number (2017)-20199, short titled the Two-unit House Registration By-law be repealed and that the Additional Residential Dwelling Unit Registration By-law included as Attachment 1 of the report titled “Additional Residential Dwelling Unit Registration By-law” be adopted.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That the Official Plan Review policy paper, attached as Attachment-2 to the “Official Plan Review – Policy Directions” report dated May 3, 2021, be received.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That the Core Asset Management Plans dated May 3, 2021, included as Attachment-1 to this report, be approved.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That an obligatory reserve fund (344) be opened to manage Federal/Provincial grant funds received in 2021 from the Safe Restart Agreement Public Transit Funding Program as a requirement of the transfer payment agreement.
    2. That the Greenhouse Gas reserve (352) and the Ontario Municipal Commuter Cycling reserve fund (350) with nil balances be closed.
  • Recommendation:
    1. That in accordance with the 2020 Year-end Capital Budget Monitoring Report dated May 4, 2021, reallocations BR-20CAP-38 and BR-20CAP-40 in Table 3 of Attachment-3 2020 Capital Budget Reallocations be approved at a net zero change to the 2020 approved capital budget.
    2. That in accordance with the 2020 Year-end Capital Budget Monitoring Report dated May 4, 2021, budget adjustment BR-21CAP-28 in Attachment-1 Additional Approved Capital Funding be approved at a net budget increase of $240,000 to the 2021 approved capital budget.
    3. As a result of the new provincial On-Site and Excess Soil Regulation, and understanding that impacted projects may result in costs in excess of approved capital budget of approximately $5 million, that a one-time strategy to authorize staff to proceed with these projects in 2021 while reporting on these over budget requirements as part of the quarterly budget monitoring reports be approved.
    4. That staff seek Council funding approval of the total budget requirement resulting from the On-Site and Excess Soil Regulation at year-end as part of the 2021 year-end budget monitoring report, if in-year capital budget surplus is not sufficient to mitigate this pressure.

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.

Delegations:
*Brooke Fry
*John Fisher
*Carolyn Ross

Correspondence:
*Lorraine Pagnan
*Carolyn Ross

  • Recommendation:
    1. That in accordance with the City Operations Campus Business Case, as included in Attachment 1 of report City Operations Campus – Business Case and Staging Plan dated May 3, 2021, the municipal-owned site located at the northwest corner of Watson Parkway South and Stone Road East be approved as the site for the future City Operations Campus.
    2. That in accordance with the multi-year Staging Plan, as included in Attachment 2 of report City Operations Campus – Business Case and Staging Plan dated May 3, 2021, staff proceed with site preparation and servicing of the City Operations Campus.
    3. That staff proceed with the planning and design of the future facilities consistent with the City Operations Campus Business Case and Staging Plan and be directed to seek Council approval through the annual budget process.

Delegation:
*Marty Williams, Downtown Guelph Business Association

  • Recommendation:
    1. That the net operating deficit of $947,524 be allocated to or funded from the City’s reserve and reserve funds or grants as follows:
      1. Transfer from Safe Restart Transit Stream grant of $3,814,405 to fund deficit in Transit Services.
      2. Transfer from Safe Restart Operating Stream grant of $2,069,019 to fund combined deficit in Parking Services, Ontario Building Code Services, and Court Services.
      3. Transfer to the 100RE Reserve Fund (355) of $1,000,000
      4. Transfer to the City Building Reserve Fund (159) of $1,524,115
      5. Transfer to the Police Operating Contingency Reserve (115) of $417,996
      6. Transfer to the Library Operating Contingency Reserve (102) of $200,000
      7. Transfer to the Water Capital Reserve Fund (152) of $63,791
      8. Transfer to the Wastewater Capital Reserve Fund (153) of $965,693
      9. Transfer to the Stormwater Capital Reserve (165) of $764,305
    2. That the remaining Phase 1 Safe Restart Transit Stream grant of $1,282,130 be deferred and applied to expected COVID-related deficit from January 1 to March 31, 2021.
    3. That the remaining Phase 1 Safe Restart Operating Stream grant of $4,842,081 be transferred to the Tax Operating Contingency Reserve (180) to be utilized as follows:
      • $350,000 to increase the amount of COVID-related fiscal relief available within the Tourism Rebuild Fund
      • $350,000 to increase the amount of COVID-related fiscal relief available within the Community Investment Program Emergency Fund
      • Remaining balance for expected ongoing COVID-related deficits through 2021 and 2022.

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

  • Recommendation:

    That by-law numbers (2021)-20607 to (2021)-20610, inclusive, are hereby passed.

A by-law to authorize the borrowing upon instalment debentures in the aggregate principal amount of $49,125,000.00 for capital works.

Being a By-law to amend Bylaw Number (2002) – 17017 – Traffic By-law.

A by-law to provide for the registration of Additional Residential Dwelling Units and to repeal by-law number (2017)-20199.

A by-law to confirm proceedings of a meeting of Guelph City Council held May 31, 2021.

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

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