I’m very excited to share the outcome of a motion I brought forward to council last year directing staff to review opportunities within our surplus assets policies for the city to engage with local groups that may be in need of items that can benefit them.

Items such as desks, chairs, computers, cabinets, projectors, printers and so on…

It will align with the Community Well Being Grants issued on an annual basis.

The information report released today outlines:

Next steps will be:

The link to this entire report is HERE, so you can read it yourself. (Scroll down about 5 pages to start the report) I’m just providing some of the highlights above.

I hope our Guelph community groups take a look at this, and use it, while this pilot is being run.

Take care,

Cam