The business of managing the City of Guelph goes beyond the confines of the council chambers, so starting this year Guelph Politico has expanded its meeting coverage to nine local boards and shared services committees. It's five months now, and a lot of different business has been done in those first five months, so we're going to stop and use this podcast to do a high-level overview.
These are the regular meetings that Guelph Politico covers: the Accessibility Advisory Committee, Committee of Adjustment, the Grand River Conservation Authority membership, Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Board of Health, Heritage Guelph, the Guelph Public Library Board of Directors, the Guelph Police Services Board, Wellington County Social Services Committee, and the Transit Advisory Committee.
Now this is not a complete list of the existing committees, but they are arguably the most important ones. Some of them manage ratepayers' money that funds these services, but they all have a bearing on policy and planning and other directives at the City of Guelph. Often, before you see something brought to council, it's been raked over the hot coals of once of these committees, and covering them helps gives us a broader picture of how the proverbial sausage is made.
In that spirit we will look at some of that business from the first five months of 2023 including Public Health's re-calibration to get back to regular order now that the pandemic is officially over and the growing controversy around separating big plots of land at Committee of Adjustment. We will also look at how the Accessibility Advisory Committee has been using its authority, the growing need to recognize the library as a social service agency, and the rapid pace of structural changes at the GRCA.
So let's look at what's been happening at some of the local committees and boards on this week's edition of the Guelph Politicast!
You can stay up to date about the latest doings at various local boards and committees by clicking that tab at the top of the Guelph Politico site (or by clicking here). Many committees will be taking the summer off after June, but it will be back to business as usual for everyone when September begins.
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