Guelph City Council, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. 1,008 words. Watch the recording.
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So we're live? Fantastic. Okay. I'll call the meeting to order. This is our City Council meeting for the month of July. We actually are starting our meeting with going into a closed meeting. So the only thing that I need to ask is if there's disclosure of pecuniary interest and general nature thereof before we go into closed. I see none. I just want to confirm Mr. Cook that we have quorum. We do? Okay, great. So I need somebody to move to go into closed. Councillor Ault seconded by Councillor Gawler. Anyone opposed? Seeing none we'll go into closed meeting. Thank you.
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Okay. So if you are here for the six o'clock council meeting, we have just come out of a two hour closed session and we are going to take until 6 30 before tonight's council meeting starts so we'll give you some time to go and grab a coffee or something but we are going to come back at 6 30 and start a little bit late
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for your patience and your indulgence we do have we did have a closed meeting prior to this public meeting and so I want to do what is called rise and report an open session so on those closed agenda items solid waste scales project contract settlement an update regarding habitat for humanity development charges and an update on the Ontario Land Tribunal for 35 45 and 55 Silk Creek Parkway, City Council received information and provided direction to city staff. On a memorandum of agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees or IATSE, Local 357, City Council received information and provided direction to city staff. So coming out of that closed meeting, we received information from our HR team. I'm pleased to advise that we gave direction to staff to finalize and execute a memorandum of agreement with IATSE. We really appreciate the collective bargaining process and want to thank the members of both the City and IATSE bargaining teams for their collective discussion and work on this agreement. IATSE members support live events at our River Run Centre, which is an important component of the City's cultural fabric.
City staff leaders, alongside IATSE leadership, met over the past few months to formalise the details of this agreement, and we look forward to it being fully executed. So thank you for that. Okay. So that is the conclusion of the closed portion of our meeting and the rise and report. I'm looking for my agenda. Sorry about that. Mayor Guthrie could not attend Council this evening and so I am chairing in his absence. Okay. If you can rise for O'Canada, please. Oh! Mayor Guthrie is on the screen joining us from the airport. we'd like you to stand and do the harmony for O Canada
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and proceed to our territorial acknowledgement indigenous territorial acknowledgement as we gather let us take time to reflect on our privilege to live and work in Guelph a city built over rich indigenous histories we are guests here and we should reflect upon the responsibility to care for this land, the people who live here today and the generations to come. If our actions today can move us towards reconciliation, we should take pause and make those decisions with intention and gratitude. This place we call Guelph has served as traditional lands and a place of refuge for many peoples over time, but more specifically the Attawandaronk and the Haudenosaunee. This land is held as the treaty lands and territory with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. lies directly adjacent to the Haldeman tract and is part of a long-established traditional hunting ground for the six nations of the Grand River. Many First Nations, Inuit and Métis people who have come from across Turtle Island call Guelph home today. All right, before we launch into our open session, is there any disclosure of pecuniary interest and general nature thereof?
Seeing none, I just want to point out that Councillor Chou has sent regrets because he's on his honeymoon and we wish him well. All right. We have as the first agenda item confirmation of the open minutes. I'm assuming they have been received and read and so Mayor Guthrie, you move the receipt of that and Councillor Billing seconds it. Any comments or changes? Nope. Anyone opposed? I'll call a vote. Okay. So those minutes are confirmed. We also have a number of items from Committee of the Whole that are on consent. And so I will go through them. And then if you want any item polled, please let me know. Okay. Item 6.1, Heritage Minimum Standards, Property Standards Bylaw Amendment 2024-267. Did anybody want that polled? Okay. Okay. Item 6.2, not-for-profit facility lease renewals, 2024-306. Anybody want that pulled? Great. Like the worst auction you've ever been to. Good. 6.3, light pollution bylaw review, 2024-286.
Did anybody want that pulled? Okay. And the lobbyist registry bylaw, item 6.4. Did anybody want that item pulled? No. The last one is 6.5, a motion to call on the Government of Ontario to amend the Municipal Elections Act. Did anybody want that pulled? No. Seeing none. I need a motion to adopt the consent agenda. Okay, Councillor Guller, seconded by Councillor Richardson. Any opposed? Seeing none. Okay. I need somebody to move the bylaws. Councillor Ault, I need a seconder. Councillor Bousetail. Bylaws 2024-20939, 2024-20944, 2024-20963 and 2024-20964 be approved subject to section 284.11 bracket 4 of the Municipal Act. Okay. Nothing further on that? Those are passed. There are, I don't believe any Mayor's announcements. Mayor Guthrie, do you have any Mayor's announcements?
No. Then in his stead, I will say, go Team Canada, because tomorrow is the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and we are cheering on Guelph's Olympians and future Olympians. Any other announcements? No. Okay. I need a motion to adjourn. Councillor Richardson, Councillor CURRAN.
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