Circulation List for June 19, 2024

Bill 185's implications on Development Charges, a Barrie Transit pilot program for high school students, an update on the Community Safety and Well-Being Plan, Pollinator Week, and the Barrie Arts Awards

Circulation List: https://barrie.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1170514&GUID=6FB8F99A-312C-457F-BE75-C379C7AAA4A0&Options=info|&Search=

📑📊 Staff Memos

🍻🍷 Liquor Sales Licence - Ol West Wing, 172 Prince William Way

• Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13025782&GUID=66C3589A-8A1D-4A15-B749-06F5838988D0 from T. McArthur, Coordinator of Elections and Special Projects

• Liquor Sales Licence Application Review for Ol West Wing at 172 Prince William Way, units 13-14

• Any concerns with the application may be made through the City Clerk's office at cityclerks@barrie.ca

🦟🦠 West Nile Virus Control Program

• Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13025789&GUID=68BE3254-58BD-43CE-AD6F-17F01283F1AC from S. Mack, Associate Director of Waste Management and Environmental Sustainability, and K. Thompson, Manager of Environmental Risk Management and Compliance

• Municipally-owned catch basins will receive larvicide application during the summer months, starting in late June

🏗️💵 Bill 185 - Development Charges Implications

• Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13026923&GUID=F72684CD-7031-4420-9C8C-FCF32082D516 from M. Villeneuve, Supervisor of Development Charges, C. Gillespie, Senior Manager of Corporate Finance and Investments, and C. Millar, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

• Key changes to the Development Charges Act and their implications

  • Repeal of the mandatory 5-year phase-in

    • before this repeal, the city would have lost ~$125M in DC collections

  • Reduction in frozen rates from 24 months to 18 months

  • Inclusion of certain studies in the eligible list of capital costs

    • this reverses some of the exclusions set out in Bill 23, thus allowing the city to include study costs in the calculation of their development charges

    • an amendment to the DC bylaw will be required

🚍🏫 Barrie Transit and Simcoe County District School Board High School Pilot Program

• Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13025786&GUID=0927E217-D5EE-484E-B713-E273EA22C9A6 from T. Green, Supervisor of Compliance and Customer Service

• An update on this potential partnership, which will give participating students (~80) a free transit pass, to encourage use of public transit over school-based vehicles

👥📃 Committee Agendas

🧓♿️ Seniors and Accessibility Advisory Committee

• Agenda for June 17: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13025791&GUID=CFF97806-0D64-45F0-8FB0-EF121079C88F

🚸🧯 Community Safety Committee

• Agenda for June 17: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13025801&GUID=70263C48-AF2D-4416-9EB8-22374D875DBF

💰🏛️ Finance and Responsible Governance Committee

• Agenda for June 19: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13025804&GUID=74511468-37C8-4426-99E5-808C583F3A95

✍️📨 Correspondence

🧪🚰 Free Well Water Testing

• Correspondence from Town of Kearney, May 30: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13025804&GUID=74511468-37C8-4426-99E5-808C583F3A95

• asking the province to stop the phasing out of free well water testing
  

⏳➕ Late Additions

📑📊 Staff Memos

🛟🫂 2021-24 Community Safety and Well-Being Plan

• Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13034015&GUID=9D89DEAD-BBD7-4A27-81B3-BC06A6A5623C from D. McAlpine, General Manager of Community and Corporate Services

  • background on the plan and how it came to be

• Status Update: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13034013&GUID=8263D789-204F-4F60-A1FD-1B23CFBEE0B1

✍️📨 Correspondence

🍂🗑️ Yard Waste Collection

• Media Release, June 14: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13034016&GUID=F90FC236-2EA4-4038-B0A3-82051AE06315 "Reminder: yard waste collection changes start Monday, June 17"

• Residents may now put their yard waste out the same day as their other waste -- it will be collected before the end of the day on Friday
  

🐝🗓️ Pollinator Week

• Media Release, June 17: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13036209&GUID=2600774D-1849-44B9-9545-76A7C44EB3F0 "Barrie celebrates Pollinator Week with launch of Native Plant Database, Walking Tour Events, and Photo Contest"

• visit barrie.ca/BeeCity for full details on Pollinator Week events and activities and to learn more about Barrie's pollinator initiatives

🎭🏆 Barrie Arts Awards

• Media Release, June 17: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13036834&GUID=6428C448-9211-479F-8989-3E904200B201 Nominations open for Barrie Arts Awards"

• Nominations are open until Monday, August 26

• This year's categories:

  • Most Promising Youth

  • Artist Beyond Barriers

  • Excellence in the Arts

  • Emerging Artist

  • Contribution to the Community

  • Business Champion

• More information is at the Barrie Arts Awards website: https://barriearts.awardify.io