City councillors could see a 33% pay raise, 10% for mayor next term
41Why a raise at all ? The city is a mess, streets badly cleared of snow, driving the streets is like driving in a ploughed field. Maybe the crew at city hall could take a drive around the city once in a while to check out the conditions pot holes etc. Next election can’t come quick enough .
7- Margaret Alexander
City tax increase to break 8% as boards seek more money
33And let’s not forget the just new pay increase of 10 & 33 %. We as taxpayers should be embarrassed for ourselves for letting this train wreck of a council get out of control. Spending like drunken sailors (no disrespect to swabbies) on shore leave. Roads you can’t drive down, a Taj Mahal of a library the majority of TAXPAYERS voicing their disdain and no need for, a Mary Poppins playground in a downtown that is almost always vacant, years of endless road construction that is put down, torn up and then put down again. As the old saying goes, you can tell the circus is in town, all the clowns are here.
7- 1SPOOK
City councillors could see a 33% pay raise, 10% for mayor next term
35Any article that contains in the first sentence or two the phrase “city staff recommends” you can be assured the city tax payer is getting the short end.
4- Buzzy Krumhunger
City tax increase to break 8% as boards seek more money
35Oh but wait! city staff just recommended a wage increase for all of council. Self serving soon all fronts !
4- Doug Frank
Royal City Mission receives emergency grant for daytime shelter
34I wish City Hall would make up it's mind on which narrative it is pushing.Just a few days ago; City Council, the Mayor and staff proclaimed that there was not one agency that could provide "washrooms and showers, laundry facilities, storage, two meals a day and other food support".Then today, they contradict themselves and state - ."... RCM was awarded $76,496 to provide washrooms and showers, laundry facilities, storage, two meals a day and other food support, a city spokesperson told GuelphToday via email."Which is it? Why the deception?* Zero transparency * Zero accountability
2- Alec Purves
City tax increase to break 8% as boards seek more money
29Before this last term; the City of Guelph property taxes were usually between 1%-3%.Since 2022, runaway spending has produced the following results - 2022 - 4.21%2023 - 4.46%2024 - 8.52%2025 - 6.78%2026 - 8.04% ?The "City portion" of the property taxes, is now much more than the total property taxes, before this last term of the Mayor and City Councillors.
6- Alec Purves
City councillors could see a 33% pay raise, 10% for mayor next term
32Didn’t they just vote themselves large increases a couple years ago? Seeing how high our tax increases already are and how City services are sub-par, Council should be ashamed even considering this type of increase.
2- Mark Si
City tax increase to break 8% as boards seek more money
31Not sure how this can be okayed unless every taxpayer is getting a raise of the same size... Thanks for making me poorer.
2- DiscoDave
Mayor 'profoundly frustrated' with new Guelph recycling collection
20Here’s a shocker….taxpayers are profoundly frustrated with the mayor and council. 2 year terms max.
11- Ben There
City tax increase to break 8% as boards seek more money
30Remember that at the ballot box this October.
1- Royal City Rabble Rouser
City tax increase to break 8% as boards seek more money
2636.28% tax increase in 5 years. A $5000 tax bill in 2021 is now $6814. Where does it end? Hopefully on ELECTION DAY.
3- BH6
Royal City Mission receives emergency grant for daytime shelter
3We need to stop spending money we do not have. Our municipal government needs to make a budget and stick to the budget. Even when that gets uncomfortable. If our municipal government that we elect to make a budget, then use our money to carry out that budget can’t, why do we bother with elected government. We might as well just turn our money over to the unelected bureaucrats and save on elected salaries.
24- Charlie Bailey
City councillors could see a 33% pay raise, 10% for mayor next term
24I guess they can keep their Disney+ subscription.
2- john be
City councillors could see a 33% pay raise, 10% for mayor next term
23* 4 years ago, a Guelph City Councillor was making $41,412 a year. * Next week; 4 years later; they will be voting to make $70,218 a year.THAT IS A 69.56% INCREASE in only 4 years time. So much for fiscal responsibility, accountability and respecting the tax payer. I have always believed that civil service was always about servicing the community. Not serving yourselves.My suggestion is to freeze any pay raises. A 70% pay raise in 4 years time is simply self-serving and wrong. City finances have gone off the rails the past four years. This is just one of many glaring examples.Personally; I would take a fraction of the salary; and donate the rest of the Councillor's salary to The Seed and Chambers Food Banks in Ward Two.This will be another highly contested election issue this year.
3- Alec Purves
City tax increase to break 8% as boards seek more money
20Isn't it rich. Isn't it bliss. Promised a 3 and got 8. What a miss; Don't you love farce. Our fault I fear. Voted you in. Thought you wanted what we want. Sorry my dear;Send in the clowns. Where are the Clowns. There ought to be Clowns. Quick send in the Clowns. Don't bother there here. Maybe next year.
6- Michael from Guelph
City tax increase to break 8% as boards seek more money
22The mayor outta step-up and use his powers to demand / force a 5% deduction in city spending without impacting critical services, it can be done, just need to will to do it.
4- Poster99611
City parking strategy to look at paid on-street parking downtown
20Ya, let's shoot Downtown in both feet, not just one.
4- Doug Frank
Royal City Mission receives emergency grant for daytime shelter
21Why does it take pressure from the public to do an about face on an issue that was an obvious wrong decision in the first place? I don’t understand this council at all. For RCM it must feel like pulling teeth to get financial help to continue doing the wonderful, much needed job that it does.
2- dcd
City councillors could see a 33% pay raise, 10% for mayor next term
8Guelph is already run by the rich and the retired, the only people who can afford to take this job.Do we want a government that understands the struggles of real working families? Because if we do, we have to pay them.
15- Matt Saunders
City tax increase to break 8% as boards seek more money
21Nice. The councilors will all go silent for while now so they can get this raise. Then they will start putting out bulletins etc on social media platforms and restrict comments. This is who Guelph voted for. I hope for a big change next election or it will only get worse.
2- littlebill
