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City Council - Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 7pm

Updated: Jul 8

LOTS of deputations regarding the proposed waterfront sports field, caving on a significant exemption to the sign bylaw, renewing the service agreement for communications towers


Meeting Location: Council Chambers



🧑‍⚖️🫅 Student Mayor(s)


📜🫅 Comments from Outgoing Student Mayor

  • Graysen Main, Willow Landing Public School



📜📜 Confirmation of the Minutes



🏆🏅 Awards and Recognitions


🏒🥇 U11 Barrie Colts AA Hockey Team

  • Recognition for winning the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) Championship



🗣🎙 Deputations


The Mayor switched the order of the deputations -- Bear Creek parking came first, then the multi-use sports field. He also announced that no new deputants (who had not yet registered) would be allowed to speak. City Clerk Wendy Cooke said that there were nine emergency deputation requests for the sports field, as well as the two (already in agenda below) for Bear Creek - they were allowed to speak.


🥅⚓️ Waterfront (Allandale Station Park) Multi-Use Sports Field and Sea Cadets Parade Ground (Ward 8)

  • Deputation Requests: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12949605&GUID=6C75A510-B274-48A4-A4A8-A27A037B0767

  • Tom Elwes

  • Kaelynn Demelo

  • Olivia Brophy

  • David Brophy

  • Paul Milne

  • At this point, the Mayor switched the order of the sports field deputations - highly unusual and not with any recent precedent we are aware of (presumably it's because the set order made it obvious that the Barrie Soccer Club had been tipped off ahead of the general public about signing up for deputations - transparently non-transparent)

  • Will Devellis (moved to 8th)

  • Karolina Kukielka (moved to 9th)

  • Shawn West (moved to 10th)

  • Tim Sample (moved to 13th)

  • Daniel Abiodun (moved to 14th - Sabrina Warren spoke in his place, on behalf of Blacks for All Races)

  • A representative of the Barrie Canoe and Kayak Club  (Heather Rosier - moved to 11th)

  • Arnie Ivsins (moved to 12th)

  • Cherin Harris Tuck on behalf of Minets Point Community Residents (moved to 15th)

  • Valeriya Zavalna (did not appear, would have been 16th)

  • William Scott (moved to 6th)

  • Trish Young (moved to 17th)

  • Cathy Colebatch (moved to 7th)

  • Diane Chislett on behalf of Barrie Sea Cadets (moved to 18th)

  • Alexandra McNabb on behalf of Navy League (moved to 19th)

  • Hopefully those Councillors who were so disdainful of public dissent last week are able to show a little more respect for the public and public discourse this week!

  • Emergency Deputant Additions:

    • Stephen Donkers

    • Derek Lubert

    • Dorothy McKeown on behalf of the Bird Friendly City Team

    • Victor Capobianco - did not appear

    • Fabio Novaes

    • Chris Franco

    • Beethoven Crasco

    • Stracy Strohm

    • Nicole Nixon

    • Dave Aspden

    • Fern Taillefer


🚫🅿️ Bear Creek Ridge Subdivision - Residential Parking Control (Ward 7)


At the end of the sports field deputations, the Mayor declared that everyone who had spoken to a member of Council outside of the deputations needed to put themselves on the Lobbyist Register "or face consequences" - it should be noted that the Barrie Soccer Club (which does qualify as a Lobbyist according to the City's bylaw) has not added their name to the registry.



💸⚖️ Tax Applications

  • Nil



📝📄 General Committee Report 1


Section A

  • ADOPTED, unanimously

🔌👥 Barrie Hydro Holdings Inc. Annual General Meeting Matters


Section B

  • RECEIVED, unanimously

🤐🏟️ Presentation re: Confidential Disposition of Land Matter - Lease Agreement: Sadlon Arena

  • Receive the motion contained within the confidential notes, concerning the discussion of the presentation regarding a confidential disposition of land matter


Section C

  • ADOPTED, unanimously

🤐🏟️ Confidential Disposition of Land Matter - Lease Agreement: Sadlon Arena

  • Direct Legal Services to undertake the direction provided during the closed session



📝📄 General Committee Report 2


Section A (Reports Received)

  • RECEIVED, unanimously

💰🏛️ Finance and Responsible Governance Committee


Section B (Consent Agenda Approvals)

  • ADOPTED, unanimously

💵📊 Q1 Internal Audit Status Update

🌲🛣️ Tree-planting at Stunden Lane & Mapleview Drive East

🎭💰 Theatre By the Bay

  • Provide $68,000 to Theatre by the Bay, funded from the Theatre Reserve, for the purposes of clearing their current deficit

  • Theatre By the Bay to repay the funds to the Theatre Reserve starting in 2025 -- annual contribution of $15K for four years from their annual allocation of the cultural grant budget, with a final contribution of $8K in 2029 from the same source

🚫🏎️ Community Safety Zone - Prince William Way, Mapleview Drive East (Ward 10)

🚫🅿️ Albert Street No Parking (Ward 2)

🤐📨 Confidential Correspondence re: Towers

  • Authorize the Director of Information Technology and the Chief Procurement Officer to sign an agreement with Sitecom Services to manage the City's Radio Communications Sites with the same general provisions as the March 27, 2000 agreement as amended, with an initial term of five years, and options for four five-year extensions

  • Make the agreement consistent with the City's current Service Agreement Templates

  • Waive the requirements of the Procurement Bylaw

  • Make the related Staff Report public once all relevant documentation is signed / executed


Section C

  • AMENDMENT 1 - Harris / Kungl

    • To separate "Sea Cadets Relocation to Southshore" and re-introduce as Section J

    • CARRIED [FOR: Riepma, Nixon, Kungl, Courser, Thomson, NIgussie, Harvey, Harris, Hamilton; AGAINST: Morales]

🥅⚓️ Waterfront (Allandale Station Park) Multi-Use Sports Field and Sea Cadets Parade Ground (Ward 8)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12898214&GUID=75A372CD-8761-43FA-8426-7E2CCCFB3B2B

  • Approve the "Premium Synthetic Turf Multi-Use Sports Field Concept" to guide the planning, design and construction of the multi-use sports field and associated amenities

  • Approve $4,622,777 in funding for the implementation of the "Premium Synthetic Turf Multi-Use Sports Field Concept" with 30% of funding from Development Charges, 20% from the Tax Capital Reserve and half from the Cash-in-Lieu Parkland Reserve

  • Include $37,122 in the 2025 Business Plan Operating Budget for future annual maintenance for a parade ground and synthetic turf multi-use sports field in Allandale Station Park

  • AMENDMENT 2 - Courser / Harris

    • To defer this item until further public consultation can be undertaken, at a cost of up to $5,000 to be funded from the Reinvestment Reserve

    • LOST [FOR: Courser, Harris; AGAINST: Riepma, Nixon, Kungl, Thomson, Nigussie, Harvey, Morales, Hamilton]

  • AMENDMENT 3 - Hamilton / Thomson

    • Add to paragraph 1: "To ensure that the field meets the minimum size requirements to accommodate the sports identified and to minimize impacts to the surrounding environment, including tree removals."

      • Note that, while this has been portrayed by Council and the City to be an order to reduce the size of the sports field, this wording could potentially INCREASE the size of the sports field to accommodate football and other identified sports. Also "minimize impacts" is a very vague guidance, and does NOT necessarily save any of the woodlot whatsoever - the woodlot being only one small part of the naturalized area of the south shore.

      • There was a considerable amount of gaslighting spoken by the Mayor and several Councillors - once again, Councillor Thomson was extremely disrespectful and even mocking to those speaking up with concerns, with multiple apparent violations of the Code of Conduct.

    • CARRIED, unanimously

  • MOTION, as amended by 1 & 3, CARRIED [FOR: Nuttall, Riepma, Nixon, Kungl, Thomson, Nigussie, Harvey, Morales, Hamilton; AGAINST: Courser, Harris]


🏗️⚓️ Sea Cadets Relocation to Southshore [moved to Section J by Amendment 1]


Section D

  • ADOPTED [FOR: Nixon, Thomson, Nigussie, Harvey, Harris, Morales, Hamilton; AGAINST: Riepma, Kungl, Courser]

🚫🪧 Request for Exemption from Sign Bylaw - 201 Fairview Road (Ward 8)


Section E

  • RECEIVED, unanimously

📋✅ Strategic Plan KPIs

  • Memorandum:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12867708&GUID=3B4B5087-DE47-4E84-AD5B-CA442745F8CA from A. Rier, Business Performance Specialist regarding the Key Performance Indicators for Council's 2022-2026 Strategic Plan

  • Annual KPI report for 2023

  • Refer this back to staff in Business Performance and Internal Audit prior to a presentation to General Committee (this seems to ignore / defer the key issue (in our opinion) of the KPIs - absolutely no affordable housing units have been built or even approved to date under this term of Council)


Section F

  • ADOPTED, unanimously

🆘🫀 Automated External Defibrillator (AED) at Painswick Park


Section G

  • ADOPTED, unanimously (deferring the item to May 29)

👷🛟 Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Committee

  • Defer this item until the May 29 General Committee meeting

  • Staff Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12898210&GUID=A83D8D6C-6F66-417A-8D43-5F8C6A7052D4

  • Establish a Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Committee, including each of the following:

    • two City Councillors

    • a representative of Ontario Health or an entity that provides services to improve the physical or mental health of individuals in the community

    • a representative of an entity that provides educational services in the municipality

    • a representative of an entity that provides community or social services in the municipality

    • a representative of an entity that provides community or social services to children or youth in the municipality

    • a representative of an entity that provides custodial services to children or youth in the municipality

    • a representative from the Barrie Police Services Board

    • Barrie Police Services' Chief of Police, R. Johnston or his designate

  • Approve the draft Terms of Reference

  • Amend the Procedural Bylaw as follows:

    • Add the Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Committee to the list of Special and Advisory Committees, with the mandate "To review the City of Barrie's 2021 to 2024 Community Safety and Well-Being Plan: Our Shared Plan for a Safer Barrie and provide advice to City Council on any potential revisions to the Plan as well as reporting on the status of the plan

    • Add to the chart contained in paragraph 14 of Schedule 'B' the Community Safety Well-Being Plan Committee identifying that it reports to the Community Safety Committee.

  • Authorize the Committee and staff to collaborate with the County of Simcoe to align Community Safety and Well-being Plans, where appropriate and feasible


Section H

🚫🅿️ Bear Creek Ridge Subdivision - Residential Parking Control (Ward 7)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12898211&GUID=4DB44458-E9BD-4196-BFCB-6E66838E581B

  • Add "No Parking Anytime" to

    • Mabern Street - South side from 35m west of Brown Bear Street to Kodiak Terrace

    • Franklin Trail - West and North side form Mabern Street to 515m east

    • Franklin Trail - North and West side from Paddington Grove to 245m east

    • Paddington Grove - West side from Mabern Street to Franklin Trail

    • Polar Mews - West side from Mabern Street to Alaskan Heights

    • Alaskan Heights - North side from Brown Bear Street to Kodiak Terrace

    • Olympic Gate - North side from Brown Bear Street to Kodiak Terrace

    • Koda Street - North side from Essa Road to westerly termination

    • Kodiak Terrace - East side from Mabern Street to Koda Street

    • Andean Lane - both sides from Mabern Street to Koda Street

    • Brown Bear Street - West side from Mabern Street to Salem Road

  • Development Services to create and distribute a mailing to all homes within the Bear Creek Ridge development noting the approved parking restrictions, effective no sooner than 30 days following the mailout

  • Development Services to investigate the feasibility of removing the sidewalk on Andean Lane and report back to General Committee

  • AMENDMENT - Harvey / Thomson

    • To delete paragraph 3 (re: investigating feasibility of removing sidewalk) and replace it with "That staff in Development Services investigate possible options including but not limited to lengthening the driveways on the west side of Andean Lane to permit a second vehicle in the driveway and to conduct consultation with the residents on Andean Lane to permit public feedback on proposed changes and report back to General Committee."

    • CARRIED, unanimously

  • MOTION, as amended, CARRIED, unanimously


Section I (Items referred from the Circulation List)

  • ADOPTED, unanimously

🫴💸 Site Plan Application for 55-57 McDonald Street, 61-67 Owen Street and 70-78 Worsley Street

🎶🎤 Lawnchair Luminata Concert Series

🏀💰 Shak's World - Proposal for City Budget Support


Section J [separated from Section C by amendment]

🏗️⚓️ Sea Cadets Relocation to Southshore

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12898215&GUID=BB053AAF-34F9-4D62-B843-AB4A2772A84A

  • Relocation Options:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12898216&GUID=E39A7050-485E-49C0-B4CA-78126BE325A0

  • Endorse in Principle "Option B - Southshore Community Centre Addition " to guide the additional planning, design and construction of the Southshore Community Centre Addition

  • Approve additional funding of $300,000 under Project FC1318 for the further planning and design of this option, to be funded from the Tax Capital Reserve

  • Direct staff to report back to General Committee for future construction funding approval once costing is refined through the design process

  • Direct staff to continue to meet with the stakeholders to obtain additional input on design and program requirements

  • AMENDMENT - Hamilton / Harris

    • Delete paragraph 4 (re: staff continuing to meet with stakeholders) and replace it with: "That staff work cooperatively with the existing tenants, including the Barrie Rowing Club and Barrie Canoe and Kayak Club who currently utilize the basement of the facility and the Rotary Clubs of Barrie and Barrie Huronia who utilize the main floor to effectively accommodate the addition to the Southshore Centre for the Sea Cadets without adversely affecting the existing tenant's space or operations."

    • CARRIED, unanimously

  • MOTION, as amended, CARRIED, unanimously



⏸️⏯️ Deferred Business

  • Nil



➡️📜 Direct Motions

  • Nil



🧑‍🏫📑 Presentations

  • Nil



📜📜 Bylaws


Bill 053 - Part Lot Control, 98 & 100 Sagewood Avenue


Bill 054 - Part Lot Control, 94 & 96 Sagewood Avenue


Bill 055 - Confirmation Bylaw













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