City Council Agenda - November 26, 2012 - City of Guelph

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I submit these comments on behalf of the Guelph Civic League for input tothe Governance Committee Meeting on Tuesday, November 13th.First, re the Open Government Framework, the GCL fully supports thisinitiative.As you see in the staff report to the committee, the Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development (OECD) identified a number ofsignificant benefits associated with Open Government:• Establishing greater trust in government • Ensuring better outcomes atless cost • Raising compliance levels • Ensuring equity of access topublic policy making • Fostering innovation and new economic activity •Enhancing effectiveness by leveraging knowledge and resources of citizensThese are all desirable outcomes.However, it should be noted that for Open Government to be successful,there has to be a culture of openness and engagement at City Hall. GCLappreciates that the City has made strides in this direction, but moreneeds to be done. GCL would be happy to work with the City on the issue ofOpen Government.Second, re part-time vs. full-time councillors, the GCL very muchappreciates the heavy workload handled by our current part-timecouncillors. However, it is clear from looking at practices in othermunicipalities in Ontario (available in the staff report) that Guelph isfar from the 22,000 residents per councillor that currently appears to bea threshold for employing full-time councillors. In fact, even if Guelphwent from 12 councillors to 6, each representing one ward, we would stillbe below 20,000 residents per councillor.Instead of spending time and resources pursuing this 'non-starter' issue,perhaps the better approach would be to investigate ways to reduce theworkload of councillors given our current employment practices. Onepossible change could be enhancing the utility of council and committeeagendas. These documents tend to be very long, sometimes more than 500pages. I imagine very few councillors, if any, actually read all of thismaterial. A condensed version could be made available that outlines onlythe most pertinent information, with more detailed backgrounddocumentation available if desired. This would help councillors tounderstand the issues at hand, and would also help the public to betterunderstand the contents of meeting agendas.Another idea is to create 12 wards and have each councillor represent onesmaller ward. This appears to be the situation in a number of Ontariomunicipalities close to Guelph in size. The staff report indicates thatthe councillor activity that requires the greatest number of hours permonth is constituency work. This might be reduced if each councillorrepresented one smaller ward. In addition, there would be a greaterconnection between the councillor and the ward constituents, and lessground to cover at election time.
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CONSENT REPORT OF THECOMMUNITY & SO
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