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General Committee – Wednesday, April 26, 7pm

Staff has brought forward a recommendation to establish a Lobbyist Registry, and the 2023 Tax Rates are finalized.


Watch Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjBL0FxOZxI

Agenda: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1079248&GUID=AFECA851-193E-4F75-AAE1-1683757B5C64

Meeting Location: Council Chambers



🧑‍🏫📑 Presentations

  • Nil


⏸️⏯️ Deferred Business


🚫📇 Request for Civic Address Change – 67 Owen Street (Ward 2)



📝📑 Reports of Reference, Advisory or Special Committees


💵🧑‍⚖️ Finance and Responsible Governance Committee


⚖️🦹 2022 Year To Date Internal Audit Status Report, 2022 Fraud and Wrongdoing Program Activity, 2022 Summary of Internal Audit Activity and 2023 Internal Audit Work Plan

💰📈 2022 Investment Management Annual Report

🧑‍🌾🥗 Barrie Farmer's Market

🥗🏪 Update on Permanent Market

💰🐟 Freshwater Action Plan Fund

  • Correspondence: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11781850&GUID=AB2B40C9-B480-435B-AD03-2F12017D09E3

  • Correspondence from Town of East Gwillimbury, dated February 1, concerning the Freshwater Action Plan Fund

  • Support federal funding for Lake Simcoe as a significant percentage of the Freshwater Action Plan Fund, and request that it be used for:

  • shoreline mitigation, stream restoration & stormwater quality management, including the tributaries of Sophia Creek, Kidd's Creek, Bunkers Creek, Dyments Creek, Hotchkiss Creek, Whiskey Creek, Lovers Creek, and Hewitts Creek

  • projects to ameliorate contaminated sites in the watersheds

  • upgrades to help retrofit municipal infrastructure (e.g. wastewater treatment and stormwater management facilities) to decrease total current discharges

  • planting 250,000 trees in the watershed, purchasing & conservation of more forests and wetlands under the LSRCA, make significant progress towards the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan goal of 40% of the watershed area being protected natural land

🚍🧓 Free Transit for Seniors