Doug Ford and his party of lawlessness and disorder is out here solving the real problems like (checks notes) helping people break laws and endanger others.Thanks Doug, great priorities as always!
Adjusted the math from Oct 30: Cam, your 2.85% is simply not truthful. One could call it intentional disinformation, intentional misinformation or outright ..., well, you know. The "city" increase is NOT 2.85%; the ACTUAL increase will be approximately 4.4%, very simple math, AND essentially at your' MAXIMUM dictate of 4.5%! Shocking! Why do you and the city intentionally do this? It is a deceptive practice. The city's public budget is virtually useless, so it is difficult to be precise with the math. Thanks Cam. Another unaffordable tax increase.
So Cam and Council could make a bold move by stopping the New Library till the library has a 0% increased budget (or not allowing the library folks to move into the Guelph built building). Force the library to put overdue fees back in place rather than allowing people to keep books for an endless time period without penalty, maybe I'll then bring mine back. These people need a dose of reality - live within your means, full stop!
Exactly - not terribly challenging, and yet somehow many in Guelph, and many in our Provincial Government, seem in capable of taking accountability for their own actions.
Sigh, the donations were always purely voluntary. The rest is simple physics as anyone who has played contact sports will understand. The faster an opponent is moving when the collide with you the more it hurts. When the “opponent” is a vehicle weighing a couple of tonnes it really matters. The faster you are travelling the longer it takes to stop. The faster you are travelling the less time you have to react. What is so hard to understand?
Mayor Cam Guthrie you "didn't want them to feel like they were under the gun,"? Really? They should 100% feel like they're under the gun! The tax payers are struggling under the gun to pay these high taxes! Maybe if you didnt push this growth mandate we wouldn't scrambling to pay for all these things in such a short amount of time making our taxes so high!
What Todd is really saying is, good bye conservation and hello mass unplanned development. There is no need to do away with the conservation boundaries we have now. What a pathetic excuse for not building housing.
Wow... enough to build about fifteen roundabouts. Thanks Doug! If you really wanted to calm traffic, you'd fund alternatives to driving. I still can't even safely bike to Rockwood (should be a twenty minute ride) or take a train anywhere but Toronto (sometimes).
Ready, shoot, aim.. all over again. Unless a policeman comes with each sign the signs won’t have much effect. As for the speed bumps and roundabouts that has been left a bit late in the year so essentially useless until construction season in the spring, when, to be fair, the construction will slow things down. And all this because people couldn’t handle the fact that a speed camera drew it to their attention that they weren’t as good drivers as they thought they were.
Major Guthrie is correct: Many citizens of Guelph can no longer afford the endless increases to property tax bills we've had to endure over the past 10 years or so. Not only that, but many people don't want them. And to present the choice to property owners as being between encampments in public spaces and unsustainable increases in property tax bills is disingenuous and short-sighted.
You can’t point to a single incident of a child being struck and killed in a school zone in Guelph.Your support for ASE is ideological, it isn’t based in reality.
Another year and we’re all still waiting for Guthrie to finally take control of the budget. He knows or should know by now, that the boards have expenses that are rising because of our economic situation. Time for him to look at reducing city expenses to offset that. Do we really need those downtown Cafe meetings? The 200th party? The vacant Old Drill hall that costs $125,000 a year? Free transit for students and seniors? How about right sizing staff? Do we still need all the people that were hired to speed up the building permit process (which has ground to a halt)? Do we really need to pay for the Mayor to have his own Communications Manager? How about that new Administrator position that was added to the budget last year to help Councillors with their work? THE TAXPAYERS EXPECT THE MAYOR TO DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN SAY HE DOESN’T CONTROL THE OUTSIDE BOARDS! Maybe it’s time for us to reach out to Doug Ford to ask if they can find a way to reign in Municipal spending!
I try to understand other people’s views. I cannot understand this one. How can people think it’s ok for the government to tell someone how they should be using their assets? Yes, these are assets. They are not public assets. They are private assets. I suppose the next step is yo tax people more if they have a basement apartment they are not renting. Maybe if someone lives on a lot that is viewed as too large for one house, they should be forced to split it. Maybe we should force everyone to install a basement apartment. Maybe we should just socialize all housing. Once that is done we can look at socializing cars.