After spending hours in a private closed session, councilors used Tuesday's general committee meeting to talk housing development, the pending incorporation of the Peterborough water utility, and to take shots at President Donald Trump and MPP Dave Smith.

Monday, February 3rd’s meeting of Peterborough City Council dragged past midnight as council debated a Notice of Motion submitted by Alex Bierk and Keith Riel to create an emergency shelter to address Peterborough’s ongoing homelessness crisis.

Peterborough’s City Hall returned from the holiday break on the evening of January 6th to convene for General Committee. Hot on the agenda was the approval of up to 16 additional modular housing units located at 210 Wolfe Street following the recent December 13th announcement of two new funding programs from Ontario’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (MMAH) aiming to support municipal housing initiatives.