Circulation List for October 15, 2025

Fire Safety Week, Thanksgiving Day city services, updates on encampments and boundary discussions

Circulation List: https://barrie.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1316201&GUID=6DB2E747-EA6E-4675-948D-7C2BED6FB6DE&Options=info|&Search=

Agenda: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1316201&GUID=6DB2E747-EA6E-4675-948D-7C2BED6FB6DE

✍️📨 Correspondence

Media Release, October 3: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14851140&GUID=C90B3897-D51E-4F87-B27F-4BC4A0FEE68A "Residents invited to mark Fire Prevention Week in Barrie, Free community events to share fire safety tips"
October 5-11 is Fire Prevention Week, and the Barrie Fire and Emergency Service will be hosting several free community events throughout the city
For more information, visit barrie.ca/FPW

Media Release, October 3: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14851142&GUID=4CD94159-42B9-45A6-98CF-E4B7D9272D02 "City provides update on State of Emergency actions and encampment supports"
It should be noted that the numbers and details reported in this press release have been disputed by the County, BHHJN and Ontario Alliance to End Homelessness

Media Release, October 8: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14851144&GUID=6B881CC9-01A7-4A12-879E-271F88BEA6DD "Thanksgiving Day affected services and service reminders"
There will be no Barrie Transit service on Monday, October 13
City Hall, Recreation and Community Centres will all be closed
There is no change to the waste collection schedule
Downtown parking (on-street and lots) is free - waterfront parking and parking in the hybrid and marina lots is enforced 24/7/365

Resolution from Township of Stone Mills, October 7: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14851143&GUID=57A9685C-3F36-4AE5-9176-46298DC39EEF
Supporting a resolution from the Municipality of Brighton, calling on the Provincial and Federal governments to enact electoral reform, adopting proportional systems in which every vote counts and polarization is diminished, in order to safeguard and empower Canadian Democracy

Media Release, October 9: "Update on Barrie, Springwater, Oro-Medonte, Simcoe County Boundary Discussions"

Correspondence from Andrew Colvin: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14851749&GUID=C2806D8D-A8B1-4449-A85B-CF139495D2DF
Opposing continued expansion of Barrie's Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) Program
It should be noted that this program was discontinued earlier in the fall