Priority areas

• Education & Encouragement: Promote a bicycle-friendly city: Develop an employer cycling recognition program
• Coordinate the implementation of the Cycling Master Plan through capital projects
• Be project-ready to make use of new funding opportunities for infrastructure initiation
• Seek additional funding sources and partnerships

Priority areas

• Data management and technology to improve efficiencies and share knowledge
• Education, outreach and stewardship

Priority areas

• Employment and volunteer opportunities
• Support and advertise already existing employment programs
• Develop a City of Guelph volunteer program for high school students
• Create a recognition program for businesses that train and employ young people

Priority areas

• Foundation – Using our employment systems as the foundation of an inclusive culture: Make a commitment to action on the experience of our employees, and recommendations of other specialists in the employment experience, Help current and potential workforce understand commitment, action and accountabilities for building a workplace that is inclusive
• Flexibility Works – Growing an inclusive culture through flexible mindsets and work practices: Build capability of leaders and teams to practice more flexibility and agility in their work, Embed flexibility into key diversity programs, Innovate and invest in learning and development programs and practices to best meet our employees unique learning needs
• Network and Industry Partners – Growing a diverse workforce and driving an inclusive culture through networks and industry partners: Leverage networks and industry partners to foster innovation and bolster the City of Guelph employment systems, Embed inclusive messaging into all job adverts, employment outreach activities and onboarding materials to attract a diverse candidate pool and reinforce messaging for all new team members

Priority areas

• Business development: Encourage support for local businesses, build relationships with existing businesses, help solve immediate business concerns, retain businesses and jobs where there is a risk of closure, increase local businesses’ ability to compete in the global economy, engage in Economic Gardening – create jobs by supporting local businesses
• Innovation: Continue to invest in technology equipment/upgrade purchases, provide access to research and development, explore potential for the University of Guelph, local agencies and research companies to collaborate with businesses assisting them in research and innovation, ensure partnership opportunities may be explored
• Workforce development: Ensure workforce availability, stability and quality, clearly communicate information about a mentoring program – especially in areas of human resources, business planning and marketing
• Business climate: Build a community’s capacity to sustain growth and development

Priority area

• Social Inclusion: Identify diversity training needs across the service system for children and youth to enhance the capacity of service providers.

Priority areas

• Land Use: Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Secondary Plans: Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 3: Planning a Complete and Healthy Community
• Section 11.1: Downtown Guelph Secondary Plan

Priority area

• Guelph will be a place where older adults can contribute to the health of the economy and the community by actively participating in paid and unpaid work

Priority areas

• Employment and volunteer opportunities: Support and advertise already existing employment programs
• Develop a City of Guelph volunteer program for high school students
• Create a recognition program for businesses that train and employ young people

Priority areas

• Foundation – Using our employment systems as the foundation of an inclusive culture: Make a commitment to action on the experience of our employees, and recommendations of other specialists in the employment experience, Help current and potential workforce understand commitment, action and accountabilities for building a workplace that is inclusive
• Flexibility Works – Growing an inclusive culture through flexible mindsets and work practices: Build capability of leaders and teams to practice more flexibility and agility in their work, Embed flexibility into key diversity programs, Innovate and invest in learning and development programs and practices to best meet our employees unique learning needs
• Network and Industry Partners – Growing a diverse workforce and driving an inclusive culture through networks and industry partners: Leverage networks and industry partners to foster innovation and bolster the City of Guelph employment systems, Embed inclusive messaging into all job adverts, employment outreach activities and onboarding materials to attract a diverse candidate pool and reinforce messaging for all new team members

Priority areas

• Business development: Encourage support for local businesses, build relationships with existing businesses, help solve immediate business concerns, retain businesses and jobs where there is a risk of closure, increase local businesses’ ability to compete in the global economy, engage in Economic Gardening – create jobs by supporting local businesses
• Innovation: Continue to invest in technology equipment/upgrade purchases, provide access to research and development, explore potential for the University of Guelph, local agencies and research companies to collaborate with businesses assisting them in research and innovation, ensure partnership opportunities may be explored
• Workforce development: Ensure workforce availability, stability and quality, clearly communicate information about a mentoring program – especially in areas of human resources, business planning and marketing
• Business climate: Build a community’s capacity to sustain growth and development

Priority areas

• Employment and Entrepreneurship: Reduce the number of newcomers who are unemployed or underemployed
• Raise employers’ awareness about the potential of newcomers and about the available national and provincial programmes that supports employers in this regard
• Create an enabling environment for newcomers who choose to become entrepreneurs to start up their businesses

Priority areas

• Livable incomes
• Decent work

Priority areas

• Land Use: Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Secondary Plans: Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant section

• Chapter 3: Planning a Complete and Healthy Community

Priority areas

• Education & Encouragement: Promote a bicycle-friendly city: Develop an employer cycling recognition program
• Coordinate the implementation of the Cycling Master Plan through capital projects
• Be project-ready to make use of new funding opportunities for infrastructure initiation
• Seek additional funding sources and partnerships

Priority areas

• Focus Investment and Growth: Focus economic development investment on growth sectors
• Re-position Guelph: Identify and implement “business friendly” initiatives, establish a one-window approval process with clear timelines
• Strengthen Governance, Profile and Reach: Restructure/re-purpose the City’s Economic Development Advisory Committee, establish protocols to define lead agencies and responsibilities, establish new regional economic development partnerships and business cluster initiatives

Priority area

• Partnerships: Build on existing partnerships, making appropriate linkages with relevant directions of key stakeholders

Priority area

• The creation of new circular collaboration partnerships, businesses and jobs

Priority areas

• Address the way we use energy, with a focus on making a positive impact on the local economy, enhancing prosperity, bringing employment opportunities, and increasing job security
• Develop strategic partnerships to maximize and expand that sphere of influence
• Advocate for provincial and federal action to support our efforts

Priority areas

• Business development: Encourage support for local businesses, build relationships with existing businesses, help solve immediate business concerns, retain businesses and jobs where there is a risk of closure, increase local businesses’ ability to compete in the global economy, engage in Economic Gardening – create jobs by supporting local businesses
• Innovation: Continue to invest in technology equipment/upgrade purchases, provide access to research and development, explore potential for the University of Guelph, local agencies and research companies to collaborate with businesses assisting them in research and innovation, ensure partnership opportunities may be explored
• Workforce development: Ensure workforce availability, stability and quality, clearly communicate information about a mentoring program – especially in areas of human resources, business planning and marketing
• Business climate: Build a community’s capacity to sustain growth and development

Priority area

• Advocate for and support: Economic investment in the arts, Cultural initiatives, including cultural planning and creative spaces, that enhance Guelph’s economic development and quality of life

Priority areas

• Employment and Entrepreneurship: Reduce the number of newcomers who are unemployed or underemployed
• Raise employers’ awareness about the potential of newcomers and about the available national and provincial programmes that supports employers in this regard
• Create an enabling environment for newcomers who choose to become entrepreneurs to start up their businesses

Priority areas

• Land Use: Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Secondary Plans: Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 4: Protecting What is Valuable
• Section 11.2: Guelph Innovation District Secondary Plan

Priority areas

• Data management and technology to improve efficiencies and share knowledge
• Education, outreach and stewardship

Priority areas

• Reduce water use as part of new growth
• Research and pilot new technologies and ensure new technology is proven
• Easy to implement
• Reduce costs for the City to keep water rates low
• Stimulate the Guelph economy, where possible

Priority areas

• Foundation – Using our employment systems as the foundation of an inclusive culture: Make a commitment to action on the experience of our employees, and recommendations of other specialists in the employment experience, Help current and potential workforce understand commitment, action and accountabilities for building a workplace that is inclusive
• Flexibility Works – Growing an inclusive culture through flexible mindsets and work practices: Build capability of leaders and teams to practice more flexibility and agility in their work, Embed flexibility into key diversity programs, Innovate and invest in learning and development programs and practices to best meet our employees unique learning needs
• Network and Industry Partners – Growing a diverse workforce and driving an inclusive culture through networks and industry partners: Leverage networks and industry partners to foster innovation and bolster the City of Guelph employment systems, Embed inclusive messaging into all job adverts, employment outreach activities and onboarding materials to attract a diverse candidate pool and reinforce messaging for all new team members

Priority areas

• Business development: Encourage support for local businesses, build relationships with existing businesses, help solve immediate business concerns, retain businesses and jobs where there is a risk of closure, increase local businesses’ ability to compete in the global economy, engage in Economic Gardening – create jobs by supporting local businesses
• Innovation: Continue to invest in technology equipment/upgrade purchases, provide access to research and development, explore potential for the University of Guelph, local agencies and research companies to collaborate with businesses assisting them in research and innovation, ensure partnership opportunities may be explored
• Workforce development: Ensure workforce availability, stability and quality, clearly communicate information about a mentoring program – especially in areas of human resources, business planning and marketing
• Business climate: Build a community’s capacity to sustain growth and development

Priority areas

• Land Use: Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Secondary Plans: Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 3: Planning a Complete and Healthy Community
• Chapter 5: Movement of People and Goods – An Integrated Transportation System

Priority areas

• Reduce water use as part of new growth
• Research and pilot new technologies and ensure new technology is proven
• Easy to implement
• Reduce costs for the City to keep water rates low
• Stimulate the Guelph economy, where possible

Priority areas

• A leader in service excellence: Long‐term financial sustainability through the fiscally responsible and efficient management of resources
• A vibrant and valued arts and culture sector: Capitalize on our cultural assets to build economic prosperity, quality of life, and community identity

Priority areas

• Provide levels of service that meet expectations and ensure a high quality of life for the community through: Evaluating and communicating the cost of providing the service, Quantifying the impacts of decisions on service
• Managing risks through: Establishing the organization’s risk appetite, Developing risk management strategies
• Demonstrating sustainable, full lifecycle planning through: Quantifying and tracking the full lifecycle costs for assets, Ensuring budgets are supported by asset management practices, Bridging the gap between capital and operational budgets

Priority areas

• Maintain ongoing, sustainable funding through the Police Services Board in Wellington County
• Fundraise and seek-out sponsorship for additional funding for project and activities

Priority area

• To support the sustainability of the existing social and affordable housing stock

Priority areas

• Land Use: Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Secondary Plans: Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 3: Planning a Complete and Healthy Community
• Chapter 4: Protecting What is Valuable
• Chapter 8: Urban Design
• Section 11.1: Downtown Guelph Secondary Plan

Priority areas

• Education & Encouragement: Promote a bicycle-friendly city: Develop an employer cycling recognition program
• Coordinate the implementation of the Cycling Master Plan through capital projects
• Be project-ready to make use of new funding opportunities for infrastructure initiation
• Seek additional funding sources and partnerships

Priority areas

• 5-year ridership growth plan for conventional transit services
• A vision, with goals and objectives for Guelph Transit, in line with the Transportation Demand Management Plan and Development Charges Plan, supported by performance and design standards to measure and monitor success

Priority area

• Industrial, Commercial and Institutional: Provide assistance to industrial, commercial and institutional (IC&I) establishments

Priority area

• Investigate existing and new water supply options, including water conservation strategies, considering water quality and quantity, water supply security, economic factors, environmental concerns and relevant regulations

Priority areas

• Reduce water use as part of new growth
• Research and pilot new technologies and ensure new technology is proven
• Easy to implement
• Reduce costs for the City to keep water rates low
• Stimulate the Guelph economy, where possible

Priority areas

• A leader in service excellence: Long‐term financial sustainability through the fiscally responsible and efficient management of resources
• A vibrant and valued arts and culture sector: Capitalize on our cultural assets to build economic prosperity, quality of life, and community identity

Priority areas

• Focus Investment and Growth: Focus economic development investment on growth sectors
• Re-position Guelph: Identify and implement “business friendly” initiatives, establish a one-window approval process with clear timelines
• Strengthen Governance, Profile and Reach: Restructure/re-purpose the City’s Economic Development Advisory Committee, establish protocols to define lead agencies and responsibilities, establish new regional economic development partnerships and business cluster initiatives

Priority area

• Provide greater transparency and accountability to City support for local organizations

Priority area

• Options for municipal financial incentives that promote heritage conservation

Priority area

• Invest in streetscape improvements

Priority areas

• Foundation – Using our employment systems as the foundation of an inclusive culture: Make a commitment to action on the experience of our employees, and recommendations of other specialists in the employment experience, Help current and potential workforce understand commitment, action and accountabilities for building a workplace that is inclusive
• Flexibility Works – Growing an inclusive culture through flexible mindsets and work practices: Build capability of leaders and teams to practice more flexibility and agility in their work, Embed flexibility into key diversity programs, Innovate and invest in learning and development programs and practices to best meet our employees unique learning needs
• Network and Industry Partners – Growing a diverse workforce and driving an inclusive culture through networks and industry partners: Leverage networks and industry partners to foster innovation and bolster the City of Guelph employment systems, Embed inclusive messaging into all job adverts, employment outreach activities and onboarding materials to attract a diverse candidate pool and reinforce messaging for all new team members

Priority areas

• Address the way we use energy, with a focus on making a positive impact on the local economy, enhancing prosperity, bringing employment opportunities, and increasing job security
• Develop strategic partnerships to maximize and expand that sphere of influence
• Advocate for provincial and federal action to support our efforts

Priority areas

• Business development: Encourage support for local businesses, build relationships with existing businesses, help solve immediate business concerns, retain businesses and jobs where there is a risk of closure, increase local businesses’ ability to compete in the global economy, engage in Economic Gardening – create jobs by supporting local businesses
• Innovation: Continue to invest in technology equipment/upgrade purchases, provide access to research and development, explore potential for the University of Guelph, local agencies and research companies to collaborate with businesses assisting them in research and innovation, ensure partnership opportunities may be explored
• Workforce development: Ensure workforce availability, stability and quality, clearly communicate information about a mentoring program – especially in areas of human resources, business planning and marketing
• Business climate: Build a community’s capacity to sustain growth and development

Priority area

• Advocate for and support: Economic investment in the arts, Cultural initiatives, including cultural planning and creative spaces, that enhance Guelph’s economic development and quality of life

Priority areas

• Maintain ongoing, sustainable funding through the Police Services Board in Wellington County
• Fundraise and seek-out sponsorship for additional funding for project and activities

Priority areas

• Seize opportunities to secure local funds for a common purpose
• Work with funders to align funding expectations and requirements

Priority areas

• Livable incomes
• Decent work