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General Committee – Wednesday, December 14, 6pm

Updated: Feb 23

Note it's another early start – this meeting is being tucked in before the regularly-scheduled 7pm City Council meeting.

The new Committee structure is announced, with some big changes. And the Lobbyist Registry proposal is back – definitely a "win" for transparency, if it goes through this time (see comments below).


Engage's Follow-up: https://www.engagebarrie.org/post/council-follow-up-week-of-december-12

Minutes: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=1063261&GUID=D9C4FC4A-E12A-4EF6-A272-DC47F26B2570

Watch Again: https://www.youtube.com/live/t4TTEmMKzCk?feature=share

Agenda: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1063261&GUID=D9C4FC4A-E12A-4EF6-A272-DC47F26B2570



📑🗂 Staff Report


👥🧑‍⚖️ Structure of Committees of Council and Procedural Bylaw Updates

  • HELD by Kungl

  • Staff Report: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11516820&GUID=B9557179-7589-4DC0-A453-D475F0236B0C

  • The new (and continuing) Reference Committees are announced, as well as which Councillors have been assigned to each committee

  • Planning Committee to be dissolved to allow for increased flexibility of scheduling additional meetings as required to address Planning and other Corporate matters

  • Public Meetings under the Planning Act will now be held at the Affordability Committee

  • Development Applications will be considered by General Committee

  • A Mayor's Priority and Planning Task Force will be established, "to assist with the prioritization of the workload in the reference committees" and encourage increased collaboration among the reference committees.

  • AMENDMENT by Kungl – that Appendix D to the Staff Report LCS007-22, the proposed composition for the Active Transportation and Sustainability Committee be amended by deleting the listed representatives and be replaced with seven citizen members

  • noted that the representation brought forward was from a historical membership list, and wanted to make sure their was an open call for citizens, and not specific to agencies

  • amendment CARRIED unanimously

  • AMENDMENT by Kungl – that Appendix D to the Staff Report LCS007-22, the proposed composition for the Active Transportation and Sustainability Committee be amended by adding 1 representative from Nature Barrie and 1 representative from Living Green

  • these entities were recognized formally by previous Council, long established and working in the mandate of this committee

  • amendment CARRIED unanimously

  • AMENDMENT by Riepma – that Appendix D to the Staff Report LCS007-22, the proposed composition for the Town and Gown Committee be amended by deleting the