Council Planning · February 10, 2026 · Item 3.
Now hold a meeting that is closed to the public, pursuant to the Municipal Act…
Main motion under the agenda item Authority to move into closed meeting
Carried (9 to 0)
9 in favour, 0 against — unanimous
What was voted on
The motion in its exact words, as recorded in the minutes.
That the Council of the City of Guelph now hold a meeting that is closed to the public, pursuant to the Municipal Act, to consider: Comprehensive Zoning By-law Appeals - Ontario Land Tribunal Update - 2026-35 As per Section 239(2)(e) and (f) of the Municipal Act, regarding litigation or potential litigation, including matters before administrative tribunals, affecting the municipality or local board and advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose.
Moved by Councillor Busuttil, seconded by Councillor Allt.
How the room voted
In favour (9)
- Allt
- Billings
- Busuttil
- Caton
- Chew
- Goller
- Guthrie
- Klassen
- Richardson
What was said
253 words from the meeting recording, transcribed automatically. Times are from the start of the recording.
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12:44litigation including matters before administrative tribunals affecting the municipality or local
12:49boards and advice that is subject to solicitor client privilege including communications necessary
12:54for that purpose is there anyone that has any disclosure of pecuniary interest or any general
13:00nature thereof for that one item before I look to call the vote no and look just before I do that
13:07just to have it on the on the record here um uh a downer coran um well I didn't hear from Gibson
13:20so downer and coran have indicated that they weren't going to be able to probably make it
13:24for this howzer also indicated councillor howzer also said that she wouldn't be able to make this
13:29portion of the meeting so just so it's just noted in the minutes um and so with that uh would someone
13:35be willing to move uh to go into closed I'll go to my friends online here today busitil and alt
13:42we'll move and second that is there anyone against moving into closed that's nobody so that's unanimous
13:48so we will have a closed meeting on that matter described it's the only item we will discuss and
13:56as usual when it is done I will do a high level summary uh but I will do that at the beginning
14:02of the open meeting that starts at four o'clock okay so at this point uh we will probably see you
14:09back here at four o'clock thank you all right good afternoon everybody thank you very much for
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