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General Committee – Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 7pm

putting off discussion on the Strategic Plan KPIs further (including the failure to approve or produce any affordable housing units), establishing a Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Committee, a loan to Theatre By The Bay, relocation plans for the Sea Cadets


Meeting Location: Council Chambers



🗣️🏙️ Public Meetings

  • Nil



🧑‍🏫📑 Presentations

  • Nil



⏸️⏯️ Deferred Business


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



📝📑 Reports of Reference, Advisory or Special Committees


💰🏛️ Finance and Responsible Governance Committee


💵📊 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

📋✅ 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 of the KPIs - absolutely no affordable housing units have been built or even approved to date under this term of Council)

🆘🫀 Automated External Defibrillator (AED) at Painswick Park



📑🗂 Staff Reports


👷🛟 Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Committee

  • 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


🚫🅿️ 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 both sides from Essa Road to the westerly limits

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

    • Franlkin 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 form 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


🥅⚓️ 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 half the funding from the Tax Capital Reserve and half from the Cash-in-Lieu Parkland Reserve

  • Iinclude $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


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


🏗️⚓️ Sea Cadets Relocation to Southshore


🚫🅿️ Albert Street No Parking (Ward 2)



📑🗂 Reports of Officers of the Corporation


🤐📨 Confidential Correspondence

  • Trade secret or scientific, technical, commercial, financial or labour relations information, supplied in confidence to the municipality or local board which, if disclosed, could reasonably be expected to prejudice significantly the competitive position or interfere significantly with the contractual or other negotiations of a person, group of persons



💡🗣️ Items of Discussion

  • Nil



📥🔄 Circulation List Referrals

  • Nil



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