General Committee (Second) – Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 7pm

decommissioning the Bayview Park Reservoir and updating Sam Cancilla Park, loan forgiveness for Redwood Park Communities, setting the BIA tax levy

Minutes: not yet available

Watch Online: https://www.youtube.com/citybarrie [direct link not yet available]

Agenda: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1256298&GUID=45352D85-22E6-4B13-8CC5-1B208ECA1034

City's Legistar: https://barrie.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1256298&GUID=45352D85-22E6-4B13-8CC5-1B208ECA1034&Options=info|&Search=

Meeting Location: Council Chambers or online

📝📑 Reports of Reference, Advisory or Special Committees

💸🤷 Affordability Committee

• Report from April 16: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130384&GUID=230C3945-0751-46A8-97F9-6B90F63AB798

🏛️🫂 Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee

• Report from April 30:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130388&GUID=AF2758D7-814A-4B2B-9EC3-C6D609604229

💰🚧 Funding Request for Bayview Park Reservoir Decommissioning and Removal (Ward 2)

• Staff Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13949938&GUID=1A34B4B7-99BD-4328-BC8C-54CE7682C426

• Open Delegation: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14128285&GUID=5622901B-E624-4174-B782-E016D12ABCF1 from M. Hassey & R. Webster re: Sam Cancilla Park

• Approve a new Capital Project to decommission the Bayview Park Reservoir and complete the removal of its associated Booster Pumping Station at Sam Cancilla Park, with a budget of $2,565,000 to be funded from the Water Capital Reserve, subject to the return of the same amount from other Water Capital Reserve funded projects in the 2025 Capital Status Report

• Approve and move up the implementation of Capital Project 001251 - Sam Cancilla Master Plan to start in 2025 simultaneously with the Bayview Park Reservoir Project

  • As part of this project, staff are to review the design concept presented in the Open Delegation by M. Hassey to the Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee on April 30, and to engage with the property owner at Dunlop and Mulcaster

📛👥 Committee Name Change

• Recommendation:  Rename the Active Transportation and Sustainability Advisory Committee to the Sustainability Advisory Committee

👯‍♀️👯‍♂️ Adult Entertainment Bylaw

• Recommendation: Direct Legislative and Court Services to investigate how other municipalities have separated Burlesque Dancing from the Adult Entertainment Bylaw and report back to the Finance and Responsible Governance Committee

🏦🧑‍⚖️ Finance and Responsible Governance Committee

• Report from April 30:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130391&GUID=E165460C-FEF5-444F-81FB-DE59FEE35BD1

🗺️🗳️ 2025 Ward Boundary Review

• Presentation:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14119945&GUID=A004A6ED-155D-4B80-BE10-DBBB203C9BE9 by Watson and Associates

• 2025 Ward Boundary Review Preliminary Options Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14119946&GUID=E5F7964B-3332-452D-AD38-A4EBB22338E2 

• That Option 1 and Option 2-B of the 2025 Ward Boundary Review - Preliminary Options Report, be the only options to move forward for further public consultation prior to final options being presented to Council

• When the final options are presented to Council, the numbering of the wards should be done in a way to minimize the number of residents experiencing a change in their ward number

🚲🅿️ Bike Racks at Little Lake Park and Cartwright Park (Ward 3)

• Sponsor:  Kungl

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117184&GUID=1198D534-B29E-453D-9D36-39EDBCA5BE39

• Allocate $2000 to purchase and install 2 bike racks in Ward 3

  • Potential locations, Little Lake by the park, and Cartwright Park

🌷🪻 Planters for Beautification (Ward 3)

• Sponsor:  Kungl

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117185&GUID=8992C7D3-E74F-48C9-9E83-10FAB1C80ADC

• Allocate $1850 to horticulture/parks to add planters to key areas in Ward 3 as part of beautification

🏫💰 School Bursaries (Ward 3)

• Sponsor:  Kungl

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117186&GUID=D0F54D56-4CBC-462E-A5E8-1EE1E3F64268 

• Allocate $6000 for school bursaries as follows:

• $500 bursary to three students who are Ward 3 residents from each of St. Joe's Catholic Highschool, Eastview Secondary School, Barrie North Collegiate Institute

• $100 bursary to three students who are Ward 3 residents from the Grade 8 graduating class of each of Cundles Heights Public School, Terry Fox Elementary School, Monsignor Clair Catholic School, St. John Paul II Catholic School, Sister Catherine Donnelly Catholic School

🥅🏆 Barrie Sports Hall of Fame

• Sponsor:  Kungl

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117187&GUID=D807979B-4BC1-4B1C-A1F1-893B9E6A8C95

• Allocate $6900 to the Barrie Sports Hall of Fame at East Bayfield Community Centre for hardware to install banners, reframing of six paintings, and purchasing a display case

🪖🎖️ WWII Veterans Banner

• Sponsor:  Kungl

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117188&GUID=A1932F41-971E-4EAA-A138-EB43B299F1A7 

• Allocate $8250 to the Barrie Legion at 147 Ferris Lane to supply and install a banner recognizing WWII Veterans

🪖🌳 Interpretive Timeline in Military Heritage Park (Ward 8)

• Sponsor:  Harris

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117190&GUID=6A61B21A-2889-44E6-8AFC-103D3B7562BC 

• Allocate $13,000 to "fill in the gaps" in the Interpretive Timeline in Military Heritage Park, including:

  • the Canadian peace-keeping role

  • Afghanistan international conflict

  • other remembrances of Pacific conflicts

🚲🅿️ Bike Racks in Parks (Ward 7)

• Sponsor:  Harvey

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117192&GUID=478FF58B-FD94-4E5C-9610-B2AC7739A10B 

• Allocate $2358 to purchase and install two bike racks in Ward 7 parks

🏫💰 High School Bursaries (Ward 7)

• Sponsor:  Harvey

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117195&GUID=8320FF59-E683-4D60-83BB-F9D2B76B34FC

• Provide a $1000 bursary to each of 12 high school students who live in Ward 7, attend high school in Barrie, and will be attending post secondary school in the 2025/26 school year

🪦🌳 J. Gibbins Park / Cemetery Restoration of Naturalization

• Sponsor:  Morales

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117196&GUID=7328C0E5-50E3-4156-9A0C-F6666484EC97 

• Allocate $2000 towards restoring landscaping along the fenceline that faces Lockhart Road

  • possibly using "zeroscaping" [sic] plants and features

🌳🌳 Spruce Trees at Stunden Lane & Mapleview Drive East (Ward 9)

• Sponsor:  Morales

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117198&GUID=11ECCB4C-1BF0-4B39-A92B-3DA0630A1DE4

• Allocate $2,101.80 to plant 3 mature spruce trees at the intersection of Stunden Lane and Mapleview Drive East

⚡️🖼️ Utility Box Wraps

• Sponsor:  Morales

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117197&GUID=C454AB71-F610-4981-AF02-2ACBC375B235 

• Allocate $5,500 to wrap two Alectra ground-oriented boxes in Ward 9:

  • southwest corner of Painswick Library

  • southwest corner of Esther Drive and Lakewoods Crescent

🪑🌳 Benches in Sunnidale Park

• Sponsor:  Courser

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117194&GUID=71E5FBCF-598C-43DD-BDC4-C64282A06A98

• Allocate $11,820 to purchase and install six benches in Sunnidale Park

🧺🌳 Picnic Tables for Parks (Ward 4)

• Sponsor:  Courser

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117191&GUID=090DC4E0-3736-454C-9FA7-0C01250DE390 

• Allocate $1200 to purchase and install two picnic tables in Ward 4 parks

🚲🅿️ Bike Racks for Parks (Ward 4)

• Sponsor:  Courser

• Notice:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117189&GUID=BA219D97-E653-4B75-9502-DAD618E03C1E

• Allocate $4716 to purchase and install four bike racks in Ward 4 parks

📋🏛️ Conservation of Built Heritage Community Improvement Plan

• Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14024690&GUID=B1518C80-530A-4228-81F7-86BD3CF3AC0E

  • Appendix A - Proposed Project Area:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14024691&GUID=FA301DA3-B8EF-4A9F-8CD4-12EC5E38903E 

  • Appendix B - Proposed Conservation of Built Heritage Community Improvement Plan (CIP):  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14024692&GUID=9A893BCD-ED4A-4D35-B369-288331DC3C00

• Approve the proposed Conservation of Built Heritage Community Improvement Plan (CIP) Project Area (Appendix A)

• Approve the proposed Conservation of Built Heritage Community Improvement Plan (CIP) (Appendix B), as amended to provide that the calculation for the grant payment be based on the lowest quote received

• Allocate $79,437.51 from the CIP Reserve Fund to the implementation of the proposed Conservation of Built Heritage Community Improvement Plan (CIP), if approved

🏦🙏 Redwood Park Communities Loan Forgiveness Request

• Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117182&GUID=8C68A73F-22E9-4B75-81A7-8B24020DE024 

  • Appendix A - Redwood Loan Forgiveness Request, April 3:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117181&GUID=FBEF4BF0-6DBB-47C7-8601-1FA9CDEAA310 

  • Appendix B - Staff Memo re: CIP Funding Request, February 19:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14117180&GUID=D90B6C10-526D-4944-A0B5-A0CDCFB04535 

• Approve Redwood's request for loan forgiveness in the amount of $500,000 against Redwook Park Community Inc.'s $3M promissary note agreement with the City of Barrie dated March 8, 2024 on the conditions that the repayment of $1.8M of the promissary note be made by June 30, 2025 and $700K by September 1, 2025 with loan forgiveness being funded from the Reinvestment Reserve or through Federal Government funding allocated for housing

💸🤷 Affordability Committee

• Report from April 30:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130390&GUID=42E24190-DC04-47CE-9706-167C51763123

📑🗂 Staff Reports

🚴🛣️ St. Vincent Street Road Diet - Blake St. to Codrington St. (Wards 1 & 2)

• Report: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130374&GUID=21DDCF3D-30C3-438E-B76E-ABA7658972C2

• Implement cycling lanes on St. Vincent St. from Codrington to Blake

• Add "No Parking Anytime" on both sides of St. Vincent St. from Blake to Codrington

🛣️⬅️ Madelaine Drive Road Diet - Mapleview Dr. to Yonge St. (Ward 9)

• Report: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130375&GUID=24502BB2-1E38-472A-8248-3E81EBD8AD20

• Reconfigure Madelaine Drive from 2 lanes per direction to 1 lane per direction with a centre two-way left turn lane / left turn lane

• Staff to seek approval from the Ontario Minister of Transportation to implement the reduction of 1 lane per direction, as required by Bill 212 - Reducing Gridlock Saving You Time Act, 2024

🫴💰 Funding Request - Allandale and Downtown Transit Mobility Hubs and Allandale Historic Train Station Development

• Report: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130376&GUID=56CBB5DB-C9B7-4030-9EB7-ECE81B5C1C2F

• Increase the approved budget for the Allandale and Downtown Transit Mobility Hubs by $1,763,084, funded from the Tax Capital Reserve

• Increase the approved budget for the Allandale Historic Train Station Development by $600,000, funded from the Tax Capital Reserve

• Reduce the approved budgets for Projects FC1320, FC1319, FC1300, FC1278, FC1273, FC1258, FC1257, FC1240, FC1230 and FC1079 as indicated in Table 1 of the Staff Report

🏙️💸 Downtown Barrie Business Improvement Area Levy (Ward 2)

• Report: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130377&GUID=7409360B-7972-4DEF-9D56-6F0CBAC800C1

  • Appendix B: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130373&GUID=B4E13BAF-B116-4AE3-8C88-D5C6F9EFDD02

  • Appendix C: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14130372&GUID=EE14263D-2A46-44ED-ACB8-FF6DAE2B2622

• Establish a special charge of 0.4410345% for 2025 to levy $755,237 upon commercial and industrial properties in the Downtown Barrie Business Improvement Area

• Approve the BIA's 2025 Operating and Capital Budgets (There has been no Annual Members Meeting for BIA members to approve either the 2024 financial reports or 2025 budget, so we are unsure under what authority these budgets are being presented)

📥🔄 Circulation List Referrals

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