City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
12That is 100% absolutely that wrong decision to make.The people who used City Hall last winter, as am emergency warming shelter, were people that were unable to access 23 Gordon Street. This article acknowledges the location was not at full capacity last winter. There are reasons why.Now City Hall is closing the door on Guelph's most vulnerable. A very bad and irresponsible decision. This will become an election issue and will end up embassassing City staff, City Council and show disconnect between a public building and it's residents.
32- Alec Purves
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
36Why is it a bad decision now that steppingstone can accommodate everyone? Oh but catch is they have to follow some rules, which is why they have chosen not to go to steppingstone and instead wreak havoc at City Hall.
8- debf
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
26Taxpayers should not have to pay for this. Happy the Stepping Stone is open
12- MakeGuelphGreatAgain
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
5Why stop there, Matt? Maybe we can turn the Basilica of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception into a transit terminal for light rail, or maybe even demolish it and put a 20 storey condo tower above, retail on ground level, and light rail right beside it. Perfect, n'est pas??John HagopianWhitby
32- usr_669030
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Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
17Yes like get rid of the bike lanes
19- Reasonable Person
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
18This is a perfect example of needing a strong mayor and council who can make difficult decisions and are not afraid to say no to special interest groups.
11- William the Great
Construction for new city transit and fleet facility has begun
21The actual cost is $3541 per household or $1222 per resident, plus interest on federal, provincial and municipal debt. At the end of the day, we are the ones paying for this overbuilt infrastructure.
8- BH6
New Tim Hortons coming to just outside Guelph
23More bad coffee
5- 123abc
Internal audit turns up improper buying for city fleet maintenance
23Is this the tip of the iceberg? Audit every single department and make the numbers public.
4- nick tasillo
Council to discuss ending emergency overnight warming at city hall
16Councillor Caton .. “Not everyone is welcome at Stepping Stone for various reasons"... Citizens deserve actual transparency on what these "various reasons" are... Edge cases involving trama and safety?? Or were many tied to violence.. threats.. drugs.. repeated rule violations?? Because those are VERY different situations.. Instead, we have a councillor blurring them together to justify continuing an unsupervised shelter at city hall... Compassion without stands ins't policy.. sorry.. that's surrender.
11- Adam Cloet
New Tim Hortons coming to just outside Guelph
19Waiting for Dunkin
7- FordTough
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
24Whose going to tell him that taxpayers also pay for stepping stone?
2- usr_615468
Construction for new city transit and fleet facility has begun
13My point is that they can tout all they want that the feds and the province are contributing - but at the end of the day they're still wasting the taxpayer's money on something that wasn't necessary (or at the very least is being overbuilt) in the first place.
13- BH6
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
22This is what happens when, with the best of intentions, you try to give someone an inch , and they take a mile. Abuse a privilege (not a right) and risk losing it. Public spaces like City Hall is no place for what was described in this report.
3- KPs68
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
20It is absolutely 100 percent the right decision to make. Stepping Stone is available for anyone who needs a space and there is no need to trash the City Hall.
5- DonnaLeeg
Guelph Fight Ford protest planned for Saturday
13Waste of Time!!!
12- Dan Porcellato
Construction for new city transit and fleet facility has begun
13Don't know how these people sleep at night allowing this horrific mismanagement of city resources. When is this city council going to learn the difference between WANTS and NEEDS. Our elite City Hall has always been fantastic at spending TAX paid money for there sometimes pet project's and this is another one added to [ the multi million dollar Wet Dry fiasco, the EATON CENTRE , THE River Run Centre [ still paying for it 40 years later] City Hall and Police Station [ millions over budget and extended court cases ] I could go on and on but the majority of Guelph tax payers already know the mess were in. AND by the way all the people in this picture have a shovel in hand for one main reason [ TO HELP BURY ALL THE WASTED TAX MONEY]
12- M.R.W
Staff recommend historic bridge on Stone Road be saved, rehabilitated
14And who exactly are the special interest groups - the ones who care about our city? or the ones who care only about taxes?
10- SusanR
City hall is no longer an emergency overnight warming or cooling centre
23I understand why this is being discontinued. Lack of respect for property is a huge issue. Our condo building was open all night until people started sleeping in the vestibule. That would have been fine but then we began to encounter feces smeared all over the windows etc. Our condo board then made the decision to lock the exterior doors at night. We had no choice. If City Hall follows suit I can’t help wondering what will happen to our costly new library when it opens.
1- Unique name
Council to discuss ending emergency overnight warming at city hall
9Is City Hall for the people or just Cam ?
14- Doug Frank
