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Guelph Council Record

City Council · January 27, 2026 · Item 3.

Report 2026 Chief Administrative Officer Performance Review – Proposed Objectives dated January 20, 2026, be approved.

Main motion under the agenda item Closed Meeting Summary

Carried (8 to 0)

8 in favour, 0 against — unanimous

What was voted on

The motion in its exact words, as recorded in the minutes.

That the report 2026 Chief Administrative Officer Performance Review – Proposed Objectives dated January 20, 2026, be approved.

Moved by Councillor Caron, seconded by Councillor Richardson.

How the room voted

In favour (8)

  • Caron
  • Caton
  • Chew
  • Downer
  • Gibson
  • Goller
  • Guthrie
  • Richardson

Who spoke to it

Mayor Guthrie called the meeting to order (6:16 p.m.). Mayor Guthrie noted the following: Sloan Hill Park - Encroachments - 2026-06 Council gave direction to staff.

What was said

344 words from the meeting recording, transcribed automatically. Times are from the start of the recording.

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1:55:59Okay, if I could just have my friends online, uh, maybe throw their cameras on just so I can see how many are there to see if we have

1:56:05quorum

1:56:08Okay, we do I am going to call the meeting to order in the open session right now

1:56:14Um, we did move into a closed session earlier around around 4 30

1:56:20And as described on the open agenda, we had two items that we went in camera on

1:56:25The first one was the chief administrative officer

1:56:292026 performance objectives update and the second one was the slownhill park encroachments

1:56:36I'll just start with the second one as the high level summary there. So we did give

1:56:40a direction to staff in regards to the slownhill park encroachment issue

1:56:45In regards to the chief administrative officer 2026 performance objectives update

1:56:51We have actually a motion that's coming from closed session into the open session right now

1:56:56And I'll just ask a counselor karan uh to consider moving that please sure happy to move it seconded by counselor

1:57:03Richardson that the report 2026 chief administrative officer performance review proposed objectives dated january 20th 2026 be approved

1:57:13Great. Thank you very much and just before I call the vote on that because uh, this happens every year

1:57:19and what we changed several years ago was uh to actually have

1:57:24Once it's approved the ceo actually come in open session to do a delegation and presentation

1:57:31To everybody about what these objectives actually are and that will be happening in the next couple of weeks

1:57:36We're going to have terra come and and speak about that. So just so just so everyone knows from the open session

1:57:41She'll come and she'll speak about that in the uh here as well. Okay in a couple weeks. So uh with that

1:57:47I'll call the vote if that's okay everybody. Yep. Okay. Is anybody against?

1:57:54Nobody so that's unanimous. Thank you very much

1:57:57And that's the only two issues that we had for our in-camera and that's my summary for that

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