Delegation of Authority By-law be amended, as noted in Attachment-1 to report 2026-130…

21:43Thank you.

21:43And through the mayor, please, through the staff,

21:46to the staff, can you help me understand kind of the process

21:49here?

21:50One is the process for designating an event as community

21:54or cultural.

21:55And then it seems as though there is a special event city

21:59permit.

22:00And I'm going to, since this has come out,

22:02I'm just going to share what I hear on the street is,

22:04woohoo, I can take my beer to the park.

22:08And my subsequent question is, the next steps,

22:13will there be consultation with school boards with public health?

22:16I just pulled up the public health report

22:18that states very clearly about a concern with youth well-being

22:22and alcohol availability.

22:24We had the provincial government make alcohol sales

22:27available in convenience stores.

22:30Can you just give me some reassurance about process

22:34and also the next steps in consultation and containing?

22:37So for example, will the city allow alcohol

22:42to be on city parks that abut school board property?

22:47Because I can tell you, people do not

22:49distinguish between city parks and school board

22:52parks where they abut, whether it is for encampments, fireworks,

22:58any of those kinds of things.

22:59So if you can give me some reassurance about the process.

23:03Thank you, Councillor Bustel.

23:04Bustel, and through you to Mayor Guthrie.

23:07I think most of the questions will be for DCO Clark Bush.

23:10But just on the quick response, Councillor,

23:13to your question on the process, what precipitate

23:18or what the impetus for this report

23:20is a change that the AGCO made to what used to be referred

23:23to as tailgate events now bring your own events.

23:26And so those require council designation

23:29for lack of a better term.

23:31And we've historically had a delegation of that authority.

23:35That expedites things.

23:36That speeds up the process.

23:38These aren't coming to council on a monthly basis.

23:41We're not trying to shoehorn in to specific agendas.

23:43And so that's the impetus for this to change this.

23:45But I think you're quite right that it does beg further questions.

23:49And I'll defer to Ms. Clark Bush in that regard,

23:51because there are a series of other city policies

23:54that wrap around the questions and concerns that you had

23:58that I'll defer to her on.

24:00Thank you.

24:01And so through the mayor, this is step one of the process.

24:05And this is a very sort of legislative process,

24:07as DCO O'Brien has said, related to the delegated authority

24:10of the clerk.

24:11And that's for how these events get designated.

24:16To be very clear, the change in the provincial legislation

24:19and what is before you tonight does not

24:21permit individuals to come to parks and bring alcohol

24:25at this moment in time.

24:26And so we are going to work on making sure

24:27that that is clear.

24:28That's not a Guelph specific thing.

24:30That is simply a misunderstanding, perhaps,

24:34of what this new legislation is in regard to.

24:37And so this step is about how those events get designated.

24:41We then, as the facility owner, for lack of a better word,

24:44for parks and facilities, now still

24:46need to look at what changes within our parks.

24:49It wasn't that long ago that this council directed us

24:51to do a study related to alcohol in parks

24:53and made the decision not to permit alcohol in our city

24:56parks.

24:57We now still need to go away and do that work,

25:00now that the province has changed this legislation

25:02and look at what does it mean for, to your point,

25:04Councillor Busuttil, special event permit holders.

25:06So for city facilities, where special events are taking place

25:10at city facilities, we now need to go away and do that work

25:12to update our alcohol risk management policy,

25:15look at what processes will change,

25:17but to be very clear, for alcohol to be consumed,

25:20whether it's under the bring your own or not,

25:22there still has to be a special event permit in place

25:25through the AGCO.

25:28Through the mayor, just a quick follow up.

25:30And my question about the process around consultation,

25:33in particular public health and the concern around youth

25:36alcohol access to alcohol and school board abutting properties

25:41where there are, you know, gateway drive and other schools

25:46where people don't make the distinction,

25:48I assume there will be that rigor in conversations

25:52and making sure.

25:54So through the mayor, as part of our special event permit

25:57process, a public health already does need to approve

26:00our special event permits as does police,

26:02and we'll definitely as well take away those,

26:05to your point, those park adjacent properties.

26:08We can't control what happens, for example,

26:10on school board properties directly,

26:12but we can look at what our policies are that

26:15relate to our parks where people may not recognize

26:17the difference between the two.

26:18So that will be part of the work that we'll take away and look at.

26:22Thank you.

26:25Thank you.

26:26And would you be willing to move then that consent item?

26:28OK.

26:29Richardson, happy to second that.

26:31Thank you.

26:32Anything further on that item then?

26:35All right, I'll call the vote.

26:36Is anyone against?

26:39OK, nobody.

26:41That's unanimous.

26:43See in the park with no alcohol.

26:47OK, and with that, my section is done.

26:51We only have one item then remaining,

26:53and that is for the traffic calming policy, which

26:57is under chair Klossin.