Sources
Every document this site draws on, what it covers, and which pages it holds up. If a number here has no source, it is a bug — this is the page that makes that checkable.
This site publishes 188 sources. Each entry names the document, who issued it, the date it was retrieved, and the pages resting on it. Where a figure needs a caveat, the caveat lives on the page that shows the figure — this is the index, not the argument.
51 of them survive only in the Internet Archive. The City of Barrie still publishes exactly one of its own election certificates: 2022. Everything earlier was recovered from archived copies of pages that no longer exist, and one URL the City itself last published for the 2018 results now returns a 404. Where that is the case, the entry says so and links the archived copy rather than implying the original is still there.
Election records
The certified declarations and summaries of vote. Every figure in the results archive is transcribed by hand from one of these.
| Document | Published by | Used on | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 — Form 35 — Final Summary of Vote Internet Archive Retrieved from the Internet Archive; the original barrie.ca URL is gone. A scan with no text layer, transcribed by eye. Filed under the Municipal Elections Act 1996 s.55(4)(a). The document titles the ward office "Alderman". | City of Barrie — John Sisson, City Clerk | August 9, 2026 transcribed | |
| 2006 — Form 45CLK — Final Summary of Vote Internet Archive Retrieved from the Internet Archive; the original City page is gone. Filed under the Municipal Elections Act 1996 s.55(4)(a), an earlier form than the EL08/EL09 used since. | City of Barrie — John Sisson, City Clerk | August 3, 2026 transcribed | |
| 2010 — EL09 — Final Summary of Election Results Internet Archive Three documents, all retrieved from the Internet Archive; the original City pages are gone. Council races: "Final Summary of Election Vote Council". School boards: two Form EL09 declarations signed by Dawn A. McAlpine — the main summary dated 2010-11-03 (web.archive.org/web/20101224214054/http://www.barrie.ca/docs/2010OfficialSBResults.pdf) and a separate Area 3 declaration dated 2010-11-08 (web.archive.org/web/20101224214139/http://www.barrie.ca/docs/2010OfficialSBArea3Results.pdf). Both scans, no text layer, transcribed by eye 2026-08-09. | City of Barrie — Dawn A. McAlpine, City Clerk | August 3, 2026 transcribed | |
| 2012 — EL09 — Final Summary of Election Results Internet Archive Retrieved from the Internet Archive; the original City page is gone. No turnout figure is available for this by-election. | City of Barrie — Dawn A. McAlpine, City Clerk | August 3, 2026 transcribed | |
| 2014 — EL09 — Final Summary of Election Results Internet Archive Retrieved from the Internet Archive; the original City page is gone. | City of Barrie — Dawn A. McAlpine, City Clerk | August 3, 2026 transcribed | |
| 2016 — EL09 — Final Summary of Ward Seven By-election Results Internet Archive Retrieved from the Internet Archive; the original City page is gone. | City of Barrie — Dawn A. McAlpine, City Clerk | August 3, 2026 transcribed | |
| 2017 — Ward Six Vacancy — List of Candidates for Appointment Internet Archive Retrieved from the Internet Archive; the original City page is gone. The applicant list is dated "Last Updated — July 10, 2017 at 9:24 a.m." — six days after the application deadline the filing timestamps themselves establish. | City of Barrie | August 3, 2026 transcribed | |
| 2018 — EL08 — Certificate of Elections Results Internet Archive Retrieved from the Internet Archive; the URL the City last published for this file now returns 404. | City of Barrie — Wendy Cooke, City Clerk | August 3, 2026 transcribed | |
| 2020 — EL08 — Certificate of Elections Results Internet Archive Retrieved from the Internet Archive; the original City page is gone. | City of Barrie — Wendy Cooke, City Clerk | August 3, 2026 transcribed | |
| 2022 — EL08 — Certificate of Election Results Published by the City. NOTE: this PDF carries an OCR text layer that is badly wrong ("Jarrie", "Ser io Morales", vote counts detached from rows); it was transcribed visually, and any machine extraction of it should be distrusted. | City of Barrie — Wendy Cooke, City Clerk | August 3, 2026 transcribed | |
| Archived City results page — turnout for 2014, 2016 Internet Archive The certificates report no turnout at all. These figures — including the ward-level ones — come from the City’s archived results pages. | City of Barrie | August 3, 2026 | |
| Archived City results page — turnout for 2018 Internet Archive The certificates report no turnout at all. These figures — including the ward-level ones — come from the City’s archived results pages. | City of Barrie | August 3, 2026 | |
| Archived City results page — turnout for 2020 Internet Archive The certificates report no turnout at all. These figures — including the ward-level ones — come from the City’s archived results pages. | City of Barrie | August 3, 2026 |
How this section is built: generated from the transcribed election archive, typed by hand from each certificate. This table is not maintained by hand — it is read out of the same data the site's pages read, so it cannot list a source the site does not hold, or omit one it does.
How the election is run
The procedures, the statute behind them, and the City’s own election pages. These decide what this site can tell you about voting.
| Document | Published by | Used on | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. A.31 Section 16 governs school support: s. 16(3) the application to MPAC, s. 16(4) the English-public default absent one. Read from the e-Laws consolidation dated January 2026. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 17, 2026 | |
| Education Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.2 Section 236 sets who may support each board type; s. 1(1) defines the supporter categories and "French-language rights holder" (the Charter s. 23 test). | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 17, 2026 | |
| School Support Designation MPAC remains responsible for school support even after voter registration moved to Elections Ontario (January 1, 2024). States the June 1, 2026 deadline for the Preliminary List of Electors, the eligibility tests, and that French immersion does not make a rights holder. VoterLookup.ca is DISCONTINUED and its domain is parked — never link it. | Municipal Property Assessment Corporation | August 17, 2026 | |
| 2026 Municipal Election The City’s own election hub, and the authority this site points readers to for anything that decides whether or how their vote counts. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City Council Minutes, November 4, 2019 (Final) Passes By-law 2019-092, amending the 1995 voting-equipment by-law (95-171) "to authorize the use of internet and telephone as alternative voting methods" — carried unanimously. The substance came through General Committee item 19-G-280 (October 7, 2019, staff report LCS019-19), which also authorized a non-standard procurement for election services including an external auditor to perform a security audit, funded from the Election Reserve. This is the legal foundation of the 2026 internet and telephone election. | City of Barrie — City Council | August 9, 2026 | |
| Information for Voters | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Internet and Telephone Voting Election Policies and Procedures for the City of Barrie 2026 Municipal and School Board Elections The document states it is prepared for convenience only and directs readers to the Municipal Elections Act, 1996. Most of the /vote/ pillar comes from this one document. | City of Barrie — Clerk / Returning Officer | August 9, 2026 | |
| Municipal Elections Act, 1996, S.O. 1996, c. 32 The statute itself. Where this site restates a rule, it cites the Act rather than the Clerk’s summary of it — s.37(1) on acclamations is the clearest case, because it is a duty rather than a decision. e-Laws pages are client-rendered, so the automated recheck cannot diff them; re-verifying the text means reading the rendered page. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 9, 2026 | |
| O. Reg. 412/00: Elections to and Representation on District School Boards (as amended by O. Reg. 100/26) Section 2.1 sets each board's 2026 elected-trustee count at "the lesser of 12 and the number determined for the board for the purposes of the regular election in 2022". Retrieved as the official Word version from the static /laws/docs/000412_e.doc endpoint; the e-laws page itself is JS-rendered. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 9, 2026 |
How this section is built: generated from the source registry, the site’s index of every document it holds. This table is not maintained by hand — it is read out of the same data the site's pages read, so it cannot list a source the site does not hold, or omit one it does.
Who is running
The nomination record, as published by the City and updated as candidates file.
| Document | Published by | Used on | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Barrie — 2026 Election Candidates List Not yet certified — nominations close August 21, 2026. Uncertified until the Clerk completes their review. Re-transcribed by hand each time it changes, and the retrieval date above is a claim this site makes about how fresh the list is. | City of Barrie | August 21, 2026 |
How this section is built: generated from the current candidate list, transcribed from the City’s published list. This table is not maintained by hand — it is read out of the same data the site's pages read, so it cannot list a source the site does not hold, or omit one it does.
Ward boundaries and addresses
The geography behind the ward lookup. Two ward maps are in play at once during this election, and keeping them apart is the whole job.
| Document | Published by | Used on | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrie-Innisfil Annexation Act, 1981, S.O. 1981, c. 63 Internet Archive Two annexations in one Act: Schedule A lands from Innisfil on January 1, 1982, Schedule B on January 1, 1987. Defines the lands by metes and bounds only — the Act states no acreage. Local copy in the site's research files. | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | August 17, 2026 | |
| Barrie-Innisfil Boundary Adjustment Act, 2009, S.O. 2009, c. 29 Annexes the Schedule 1 lands from Innisfil on January 1, 2010; Schedule 1 amended by O. Reg. 501/09. The 2,293-hectare figure is the City's own, from its Growth Management page. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 17, 2026 | |
| Barrie-Vespra Annexation Act, 1984, S.O. 1984, c. 41 Internet Archive Annexes the Schedule lands from Vespra Township on July 1, 1984, by metes and bounds, no acreage stated. A local copy is kept with the site's research files. | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | August 17, 2026 | |
| Growth Management States the 2010 boundary adjustment "extended the City's southern boundary to incorporate 2,293 hectares" — the Hewitt's and Salem Secondary Plan lands. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| AddressVW — municipal address points 51,042 addresses, each resolved against both ward layers and shipped as a read-only SQLite index. A snapshot, not a live feed. | City of Barrie — Open Data | August 9, 2026 | |
| Administrative Area — Wards (current council term) The OLD map. Carries COUNCILLOR values for the sitting members, which is how it is identified as the pre-2026 layer. Used only to say who represents an address today — never to say where someone votes. | City of Barrie — Open Data | August 9, 2026 | |
| Barrie - Oro-Medonte - Springwater Boundary Adjustment Act, 2025, S.O. 2025, c. 28 Bill 76; Royal Assent 2025-12-11, in force 2026-01-01. Retrieved as the official Word version from the static /laws/docs/25b28_e.doc endpoint. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 9, 2026 | |
| Boundary Expansion (City of Barrie transition page) The City's transition record: City by-laws apply on the annexed lands except the Zoning By-law (the townships' zoning continues until the City passes one for the area), and Interim Control By-law 2025-124 freezes uses on most properties there. A live page; re-capture before citing a change. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City Council Minutes, June 18, 2025 (Final) Passes By-law 2025-070, altering the ward boundaries and repealing By-law 2013-134 (item 25-G-172). Grouped under boundaries because that is what this document is on the site to prove. | City of Barrie — City Council | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie Boundary Expansion Request (Township of Oro-Medonte page, updated 2026-03-25) The township's record of its compensation: $10,155,000, described as "$15,000 per acre", with 26 properties impacted, "less than 1% of Oro-Medonte's land area". A live page; re-capture before citing a change. | Township of Oro-Medonte | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie interactive ward map | City of Barrie — GIS | August 9, 2026 | |
| Environmental Registry of Ontario notice 025-1324 — proposed boundary adjustment States the transfer as "approximately 1,673 hectares" from Oro-Medonte and Springwater, anticipated for "residential and/or industrial commercial uses over the medium to longer period". | Government of Ontario — Environmental Registry | August 9, 2026 | |
| Joint media release — City of Barrie and Township of Springwater execute compensation agreement (2026-02-26) Approximately $22 million in total compensation to Springwater, paid in installments through 2030, plus $850,000 dedicated to economic-development resources over five years. The consolidated agreement text is archived alongside (springwater-compensation-agreement-report-2026-02-04). | City of Barrie and Township of Springwater | August 9, 2026 | |
| O. Reg. 402/25: Phase-in of Tax Changes Tax increases on the annexed lands phase in by declining credit: farm and managed-forest classes over 20 years, all other classes over 5. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 9, 2026 | |
| O. Reg. 403/25: Ward Descriptions Section 1 alters Wards 1, 3, 4 and 5 as of 2026-01-01 (the annexed lands, Schedule 1); s. 2(3) directs that the 2026 election be conducted on the fully redrawn ten-ward map of Schedule 2. This is the legal instrument behind the boundary premise the whole site runs on. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 9, 2026 | |
| Ontario news release, "Ontario Supporting Growth in Simcoe County" (2025-11-25) The province's rationale on introducing Bill 76: "unlock up to 8,000 new homes", "homes for 23,000 more people", and the claim that Barrie would "run out of residential land by the 2030s and employment land by the 2040s". Text via api.news.ontario.ca. | Government of Ontario — Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing | August 9, 2026 | |
| Ward Boundary Review The by-law is 2025-070, passed 2025-06-18 — confirmed against the Council minutes of that date (see council-minutes-2025-06-18): "to provide for the alteration of the ward boundaries for the City of Barrie and to repeal and replace By-law 2013-134", item 25-G-172, staff report LCS006-25. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| WardsNov2026_WA_Dynamic — ward boundaries in effect for the 2026 election The authoritative 2026 map. This is the layer a ballot follows. Re-verified 2026-08-09: the REST endpoint answers with ?f=json; its bare HTML view now returns 403, which is an access-path change, not a data change. | City of Barrie — GIS | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie Open Data portal | City of Barrie | August 3, 2026 | |
| Ward Map Book, November 2026 A 40MB PDF. Linked with that warning attached rather than handed unannounced to someone on mobile data. | City of Barrie — GIS | August 3, 2026 |
How this section is built: generated from the source registry, the site’s index of every document it holds. This table is not maintained by hand — it is read out of the same data the site's pages read, so it cannot list a source the site does not hold, or omit one it does.
Budget and finance
City, police and partner budget documents, and the statute that governs who decides what.
| Document | Published by | Used on | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary of Expenses for Members of Council (quarterly Council Expense Reports), Q1 2019–Q2 2026 Thirty quarterly PDFs (Q1 2019 – Q2 2026, every quarter barrie.ca has published; earlier quarters retrieved via the Internet Archive since the live page keeps only a rolling window). Each report carries three appendices per member — Appendix A (mayoral/councillor discretionary spending, itemized by description), Appendix B (corporate: phone/air card/tablet, reported as per-item totals with no transaction-level detail), and Appendix C (conference and travel, itemized by event) — which this site transcribes line by line rather than just the summary totals. Every member-quarter's itemized lines were machine-verified to sum to the cent against that quarter's own summary table, and the annual sums independently reconcile against the s.284 remuneration statements' City-paid-expenses figures charted on /issues/council-pay/. Q4 2022 spans the November mayoral transition and carries both Lehman's and Nuttall's partial-quarter figures separately. | City of Barrie — Finance Department | August 19, 2026 | |
| 2016 Business Plan — Executive Summary Internet Archive Requested/recommended budget, not approved. "TOTAL RECOMMENDED TAX OPERATING BUDGET" net figure (PDF p27) includes Service Partners for this and every year through 2023 -- unlike the 2024 book onward, where the same-named row excludes them. The site therefore never charts this printed total directly: the city-operations figure for 2016-2023 is the total minus the same table's Service Partners & Grants section net, so the partner lines are not counted twice. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| 2017 Year End Report (Staff Report EMT002-18) Internet Archive The only surviving report of its kind: net divisional expenditures, ACTUAL vs budget, tax-rate supported — the same basis as the levy pages. Carries a 2016 actuals column. Equivalent reports were presented each spring (the eScribe minutes show the motions) but no other year's PDF survives online; the rest are in the Clerk records request (HUMAN-RESEARCH.md §1, item 10). | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Budget and Financial Overview (2019 budget) Internet Archive Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2018 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. The Divisional Tax Operating subtotal is printed as a blank header band in this book -- no 2019 divisional requested figure exists. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Budget and Financial Overview (2020 budget) Internet Archive Requested/recommended budget. Its County-of-Simcoe partner detail table is a stale, character-for-character duplicate of the 2019 book's own (including a shared "$1,923,00" typo) -- the 2019 APPROVED County Total - Tax Funded figure that would otherwise be sourced from that table is not published here as a result. Its SUMMARY table is not stale and does print a 2019-approved County net of $18,473,000, but on the narrower basis that excludes the County Capital Reserve contribution, so it does not fill the gap on the site's Total - Tax Funded basis; the 2019 county row instead uses the 2021 book's "2019 Actuals" column. This book's comparator column otherwise carries the 2019 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Budget and Financial Overview (2021 budget) Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2020 APPROVED Service Partner amounts, and its per-partner Base Budget Change Report adds a "2019 Actuals" column -- the source of the 2019 County of Simcoe actual ($19,948,986 Total - Tax Funded), the only documented 2019 County figure on the site's basis. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Budget and Financial Overview (2022 budget) Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2021 APPROVED Service Partner amounts; the column itself is mislabelled "2022 - Budget" in the document but its values match the 2021 approved figures found elsewhere, not 2021 requested. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Budget and Financial Overview — Tax Rate (2015 budget) Internet Archive Real text layer. The first year whose book prints a per-partner net Tax Impact table beside the gross one. Carries 2013 actuals. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Business Plan Overview (2012 Business Plan, §3) Internet Archive Scanned PDF, no text layer. Its Fund Account Summary (p. 54) states the 2012 tax-rate Property Taxes — the levy — at $178,433,033; the figure was read from the page image. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Executive Summary (2013 Business Plan, §a) Internet Archive Scanned PDF, no text layer. Its Fund Account Summary (p. 55) states the 2013 tax-rate Property Taxes — the levy — at $184,505,506; the figure was read from the page image. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Executive Summary (2017 budget) Internet Archive Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2016 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Executive Summary (2018 budget) Internet Archive Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2017 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Fund Account Summary (2011 Business Plan) Internet Archive Real text layer. Its Sources and Uses by Fund table states the 2011 tax-rate operating Property Taxes — the levy — at $171,283,091. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Operating Budget and Financial Overview 2023 Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2022 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. The 2023 APPROVED figures themselves are sourced from the 2024 Service Partners book's comparator column. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Service Partners & Grants (2013 Business Plan, §g) Internet Archive Scanned Xerox PDF, no text layer; the extracted file is OCR and every published digit was verified against the page image. Carries 2011 actuals. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Service Partners (2011 Business Plan) Internet Archive Real text layer. Its Base Budget Change Report carries 2009 ACTUAL expenditures — the oldest actuals recoverable; no 2009 or 2010 book survives on the Wayback Machine. The gross request rows carry the development-charge offsets as separate revenue lines, unlike the 2015+ books' printed Tax Impact rows. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Service Partners (2012 Business Plan, §10) Internet Archive Scanned Xerox PDF, no text layer; the extracted file is OCR and every published digit was verified against the page image. Carries 2010 actuals. The police board's covering letter states the net 2012 request ($43,583,716) — the table's gross minus the DC offset, corroborating both figures. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Service Partners (2014 Business Plan, §5) Internet Archive Scanned Xerox PDF, no text layer; the extracted file is OCR and every published digit was verified against the page image. Carries 2012 actuals. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Budget and Financial Overview — 2024 Business Plan & Operating Budget Internet Archive The City no longer links its pre-2026 budget books; this is the Internet Archive capture. Carries the TOTAL RECOMMENDED TAX OPERATING BUDGET (net) line, printed page 24. A recommended figure, not an approved one. A local copy is kept with the site's research files. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Budget and Financial Overview — 2025 Business Plan & Operating Budget Internet Archive The City no longer links its pre-2026 budget books; this is the Internet Archive capture. Carries the TOTAL RECOMMENDED TAX OPERATING BUDGET (net) line, printed page 24. A recommended figure, not an approved one. A local copy is kept with the site's research files. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2024 budget was adopted Internet Archive With the December 6, 2023 release "Council endorses City's portion of the 2024 budget": Council "froze spending on the City's Operating Budget for the second year, while continuing the contribution of 2 per cent for the Infrastructure Investment Funding levy" — the APPROVED figure, which supersedes the book's recommended 1.06%. No overall increase was stated for 2024, a break from the 2013-2018 practice; the release also notes "several amendments". | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2025 budget was adopted Internet Archive With the December 11, 2024 release "Council endorses Mayor's 2025 budget": "City Council approved a zero per cent increase to the City's Operating Budget for the third year in a row, while continuing the contribution of 2 per cent for the Infrastructure Investment Funding levy." No overall increase was stated for 2025. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Corporate Asset Management Plan — Proposed Levels of Service (2025) Rev 02, June 12, 2025; 213 pages, written to O. Reg. 588/17's proposed-levels-of-service deadline. A local copy is kept with the site's research files. Its $21.2M/yr renewal gap is a capital-plan-versus-need measure — a different method from the operating budget's $65.6M amortization-basis shortfall, and the two must not be conflated. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Employment Lands Development Community Improvement Plan Adopted December 3, 2025; By-law 2026-019 (March 4, 2026), amended by By-law 2026-077 (June 17, 2026) adding two Sovereign Defence programs. Six incentive programs including a five-year tax-increment grant; residential, office and retail excluded. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| McKay Road Interchange (project EN1251) States design is "on hold until 2031" and "construction start is currently scheduled for 2034" for a project first designed starting 2019. A live project-status page; re-capture before citing a change. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Ontario Gas Tax program backgrounders, 2019-20 through 2025-26 allocations Seven annual backgrounders, each carrying Barrie's allocation, read through the newsroom API (api.news.ontario.ca/api/v1/releases/{id} — the public pages are JavaScript shells). Backgrounder ids 56185, 59950, 1001445, 1002743, 1004453, 1005833, 1007343. The identical $2,508,622 for three years running is real: the province held allocations steady. | Government of Ontario — Ontario Newsroom | August 17, 2026 | |
| Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2024 Internet Archive Internet Archive capture; the per-partner tax-funded requests, printed page 283 ("SERVICE PARTNERS & GRANTS - Base Budget Change Report"). Requested figures, not approved. Local copy in the site's research files. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2025 Internet Archive Internet Archive capture; the per-partner tax-funded requests, printed page 301 ("SERVICE PARTNERS & GRANTS - Base Budget Change Report"). Requested figures, not approved. Local copy in the site's research files. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Statements of Council Remuneration and Expenses (Municipal Act s. 284), 2016–2025 Ten annual statements, retrieved from Legistar and eScribe (each year's document id is recorded with the extraction; local copies in research/pdf/council-remuneration/, including the separately published 2024/2025 appendices). Source of the honoraria, car allowances, City-paid expenses, and the mayor's PowerStream/Alectra board pay charted on /issues/council-pay/. 2019–2023 are image-only scans, read from page renders and spot-verified. 2013–2015 were never archived and need a records request. | City of Barrie — Finance Department | August 17, 2026 | |
| Transportation Master Plan, Final Report The source of the 7%-transit/12%-active/78%-auto 2041 target (Table 5-2) and the $2.04 billion, 81%-roads capital cost estimate (Table 8-3). Congestion is defined as a volume-to-capacity ratio of 0.85 or higher (0.75 on Highway 400 ramps). Still listed "In Effect" by the City while a 2051 replacement is under way. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| 2025 Year In Review The library's own report: 2025 total expenses $11,023,517 against municipal grant revenue $10,008,761; 537,375 in-person visits and 1,116,609 virtual visits; and the fourth branch at 420 Leacock Drive with "an anticipated public opening in late fall 2026" — a month vaguer than the City page, so both are cited. | Barrie Public Library | August 11, 2026 | |
| 2026 Water & Wastewater Rates (effective May 1, 2026) | City of Barrie | August 11, 2026 | |
| Appendix A to Staff Report CCS-010-2026 — 2026 tax rates by property class The approved rates by class: residential 1.314503% municipal and 1.467503% including the education rate. Municipal levy $338,922,579 plus education $66,599,287 for $405,521,866 in total. | City of Barrie — Legislative and Court Services | August 11, 2026 | |
| Letitia Heights Library Branch (City project page) The lease at 420 Leacock Drive, the approximately 4,800 square foot branch, and the timeline (renovations spring 2026, opening anticipated fall 2026). A live page; re-capture before citing a change. | City of Barrie | August 11, 2026 | |
| Staff Report CCS-010-2026 — 2026 Tax Rates States verbatim that Council approved the City portion of the 2026 budget on 2025-11-12 under Motion 25-G-236 (as amended) and the Service Partner portion on 2025-12-10 under Motions 25-G-259 and 25-G-261 (as amended), and that both established the total property tax levy requirement at $338,922,579. Adopted by Council 2026-04-29 as motion 2026-A-071. Both approving motions were "as amended", so nothing about the per-line split survives from the requested documents without its own source. | City of Barrie — Legislative and Court Services | August 11, 2026 | |
| Water and Wastewater Ontario Regulation 453/07 Financial Plan — Financial Plan #014-301 The statutory financial plan behind the rates, forecasting 2021 to 2030. Still the current plan: no newer O. Reg. 453/07 plan has been published. | City of Barrie (Watson & Associates Economists Ltd.) | August 11, 2026 | |
| 2026 Capital Project Detail Report 241 pages, one detail sheet per project with project numbers. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| 2026–2035 Capital Plan (summary tables) Per-project ten-year spending tables: total spent to Aug 2025, previously approved budget, and 2026–2035 by year. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Barrie Police Service 2021 Budget Summary Municipal funding required $57,292,783, a 2.65% increase over the 2020 $55,811,857. | Barrie Police Service | August 9, 2026 | |
| Barrie Police Service 2022 Budget (summary, dated 2021-10-08) Municipal funding required $58,945,250, a 2.88% increase over the 2021 $57,292,783. | Barrie Police Service | August 9, 2026 | |
| Barrie Police Service 2023 Budget (presented to City of Barrie Council, February 1, 2023) Municipal funding required $63,238,813 — operating $57,619,268, transfer to capital reserve $1,882,107, legislative impacts $3,737,438 — "a 7.28% increase over 2022". | Barrie Police Service | August 9, 2026 | |
| Barrie Police Service 2024 Budget (for Open Board Meeting, October 19, 2023) Total 2024 budget request $67,523,320 (6.90%): non-discretionary 7.27%, discretionary −0.37%; growth-adjusted 4.79%. | Barrie Police Service | August 9, 2026 | |
| Barrie Police Service 2025 Budget (for Board Meeting, September 12, 2024) Total 2025 budget request $71,430,985, a 5.79% increase; the deck notes the request does not include additional revenue from assessment growth. | Barrie Police Service | August 9, 2026 | |
| Barrie Police Service 2026 Budget — Presentation for Board, October 16, 2025 Slide deck; thin text layer, transcribed visually 2026-08-09. The 2026 consolidation slide: Foundational Policing 4.43% + Growing and Changing Community 1.45% = base budget 5.88%; Recommended Growth Plan (6 sworn / 4 civilian) 1.34%; "Barrie Police Budget Request 7.22%"; Provincial Impacts 2.65% shown as a separate line. Note the deck's 7.22% differs from the 8.53% the City's Service Partners book records for the same request — the bases are not stated, so do not reconcile them by arithmetic; state each with its source. Also carries sworn strength (250 in 2023–2025, plan to 280 by 2030) and the service's own population projections. | Barrie Police Service | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2013 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2014-01-07) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2013. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2014 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2015-03-12) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2014. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2015 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2015-06-23) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2015. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2016 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2016-06-08) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2016. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2017 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2017-06-04) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2017. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2018 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2018-10-04) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2018. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2019 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2019-07-26) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2019. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2020 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2020-05-29) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2020. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2021 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2021-04-29) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2021. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2022 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2022-10-01) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2022. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2023 budget was adopted Internet Archive An Internet Archive capture (2023-05-14) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2023. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019, S.O. 2019, c. 1, Sched. 1 Section 50 is the jurisdiction answer for /issues/safety-policing/: council sets the board's OVERALL budget and is not bound to adopt the board's estimates (s. 50(4)), but has no authority to approve or disapprove specific items (s. 50(5)); if the board finds the budget insufficient it can take the municipality to conciliation and binding arbitration (s. 50(6)–(12)). The extraction is s. 50 verbatim; the statute is HTML-only on e-Laws, so it was taken from the rendered page, not fetch-source.sh. Grouped under budget because that is the question it is here to answer. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 9, 2026 | |
| Executive Summary — 2024 Business Plan & Operating Budget States the recommended 2024 operating budget: a 1.06% increase for City Operations and 2.00% for IIF, with Service Partner budgets presented separately. The RECOMMENDED figures — a City statement of the approved 2024 total has not been located. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Executive Summary — 2025 Business Plan & Operating Budget States the recommended 2025 operating budget: a 0.00% levy increase for City Operations and 2.00% for IIF, with Service Partner budgets presented separately. The RECOMMENDED figures — a City statement of the approved 2025 total has not been located. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Executive Summary — 2026 Business Plan & Operating Budget States the Mayor directed a 0% operating budget for City services for 2026 under Strong Mayor legislation. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Infrastructure Investment Funding (2026 Business Plan & Operating Budget) One page. States the $6.4M IIF contribution represents a 2% tax levy increase. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Operating Budget and Financial Overview — 2026 Business Plan | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Service Areas — Tax Rate (2026 Business Plan & Operating Budget) | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2026 Covers the Barrie Police Service, County of Simcoe, library and other partner budgets as presented to the City. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| 2026 Capital Plan | City of Barrie | August 3, 2026 |
How this section is built: generated from the source registry, the site’s index of every document it holds. This table is not maintained by hand — it is read out of the same data the site's pages read, so it cannot list a source the site does not hold, or omit one it does.
City conditions
Population, housing and homelessness measures. Each series names its geography and what its count does and does not capture.
| Document | Published by | Used on | Retrieved |
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| Creating Safer Spaces: Barrie's Coordinated Approach to Addressing Homelessness & Encampments The City's own operational page, and the primary source for: the State of Emergency declared September 9, 2025 (still in effect); 705 individuals identifying as homeless per HIFIS data as of 2026-08-04; two known encampments on municipally-owned land as of 2026-08-14; 209 encampments "addressed" between the declaration and 2026-08-14; and both encampment definitions verbatim. A live page the City updates on a rolling basis, so the cumulative "addressed" figure changes scope partway through 2026 (see the comparability_note on that indicator series) — figures cite the retrieval date, and the page must be re-captured before any update. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Everyone Counts 2024: Insights from Simcoe County's Homelessness Enumeration The County's own five-point Point-in-Time series (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024), County-wide including Barrie and Orillia — not the City of Barrie alone, and not on the same basis as the City's live HIFIS figure elsewhere on this site. The report itself warns that "changes in methodology, data collection processes, and definitions of homelessness over time can influence the results, making direct comparisons potentially misleading." The 2016 figure is Registry Week survey responses, a different method than the in-person counts from 2018 on. | County of Simcoe | August 18, 2026 | |
| Our History Internet Archive The library's own history page, no longer live (checked the current site's sitemap for a replacement -- none exists). Source for the 1854 Mechanics' Institute founding meeting, the 1862 incorporation, the 1891 first permanent building, the 1917 Carnegie building, the 1964 three-storey addition, and the December 1996 move to Worsley Street. Some dates conflict with a Barrie Historical Archive column, noted where they do. | Barrie Public Library | August 18, 2026 | |
| Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2025 CMA-level table: Barrie Crime Severity Index 46.9 (-3% vs 2024), crime rate 3,777 per 100,000 (-4%) -- the lowest CSI of any CMA in Canada for the second year running. This is a Census Metropolitan Area figure (Barrie CMA includes Innisfil and Springwater), NOT the same geography as a Barrie Police Service-only figure; do not conflate the two, and do not compute a delta between a CMA-basis year and a BPS-only-basis year. | Statistics Canada | August 18, 2026 | |
| 2025 Annual Report (for the Board) Traffic Services table: 4,835 motor vehicle collisions in 2025, up 8.6% over two years; the 2024 report restates the 2023/24 figures under a differently-worded row label, a small discrepancy noted rather than resolved. Also carries the 2025 Community Safety & Satisfaction Survey's traffic-concern ranking (speeding 65%). | Barrie Police Service | August 17, 2026 | |
| 2026 Traffic Calming Measures Ward-by-ward list of seasonal traffic-calming measures, chosen by each ward councillor with Traffic Services staff; permanent speed cushions on Madelaine Drive were installed under the 2026 Pavement Management Program. A live page; re-capture before citing a change. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| About Georgian States 13,544 full-time students including over 5,500 international students, per the June 2025 audit. | Georgian College | August 17, 2026 | |
| Barrie Transit — Fares | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Barrie's new transit terminal opens on September 21 The Barrie Allandale Transit Terminal, 20 Essa Road: a $29.6M project, 40% federal, 33.33% provincial, $9.2M City. The downtown terminal at 24 Maple Avenue closed September 28, 2025, its service replaced by adjacent on-street stops. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| CMHC Rental Market Survey data tables — Barrie CMA, October 2020–2025 Six Octobers of purpose-built average rents and vacancy rates, Barrie CMA (which includes Innisfil and Springwater). Average rents of the occupied-plus-vacant primary stock, NOT asking rents; the two must never be compared as if one series. | Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation | August 17, 2026 | |
| Canadian Climate Normals 1981–2010, station BARRIE WPCC (Climate ID 6110557) Annual snowfall normal 223.0 cm (code C, twenty or more years of record) — the figure the City's own page does not use. | Environment and Climate Change Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Capital Planning — New Schools The board's own list of schools under construction and in design, including both Barrie southeast elementary schools. | Simcoe County District School Board | August 17, 2026 | |
| Census / Community Profiles, 2001–2016 Censuses — Barrie (City and CMA) Four profile pages, one per census 2001–2016, each fetched for both the city (CSD 3543042) and the CMA (568). The 2011 city count is published twice by StatCan: 135,711 (E) on the 2011 profile, revised to 136,063 (r) on the 2016 profile — the series uses the 2011 profile's own figure and notes the revision. | Statistics Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Commuting flow from geography of residence to geography of work by gender: Census subdivisions, 2021 Census (Table 98-10-0459-01) Retrieved via the WDS coordinate API rather than the 292MB full-table CSV: every one of the 5,161 possible destination CSDs was swept individually for Barrie as the residence geography. The 2021 census commuting reference week (May 2-8, 2021) fell inside a provincial stay-at-home order; 21.3% of the labour force worked from home that week, so every mode-share and duration figure drawn from this table or the census profile is a pandemic-week snapshot, stated as such. | Statistics Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Council approves partnership with Lakehead University to bring STEM Hub to downtown Barrie The City's own release on the downtown STEM Hub partnership at the former transit terminal, 24 Maple Ave. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Find a Station, and PDF Schedules (route 101-102, Toronto – Barrie – North Bay) The station finder lists the Barrie Allandale Transit Terminal, 20 Essa Road, as an Ontario Northland stop; the PDF schedules page names route 101-102 as "Toronto - Barrie - North Bay". The Northlander passenger train is a separate, not-yet-running service: Ontario Northland describes itself as "working toward the reinstatement", Toronto to Timmins and Cochrane, with no Barrie stop named on that page. | Ontario Northland Transportation Commission | August 17, 2026 | |
| Labour force characteristics by census metropolitan area, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted (Table 14-10-0459-01) — Barrie CMA December 2018 through July 2026, read through the WDS API; the full monthly series is committed as the extraction. Three-month moving averages, seasonally adjusted — never mix with the annual table or the census figures, which sit on different bases. The older table 14-10-0378 is archived and ends in 2024. | Statistics Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Motion 25-G-037 — walkway snow clearing pilot Directs that walkway winter-maintenance pilot locations be considered in the 2026 budget; sponsored by the Ward 9 councillor. The 2026 capital plan carries an 800 m pilot. | City of Barrie — City Council | August 17, 2026 | |
| Official Voting Results, by general election Table 12 (candidate results by electoral district) for each general election 2004-2025 covering a Barrie riding. Each election year has its own results URL and, before 2011, its own character encoding; the specific pages used are listed in the page's own citations. Member service dates cross-checked against the House of Commons' own member-search records at ourcommons.ca. | Elections Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Ontario Public Library Statistics — Barrie Public Library (L0043), 2019–2024 The province's own annual survey, six years of Barrie rows re-verified against the downloaded files. Two caveats travel with it: circulation changes definition at 2020 (physical-only thereafter, e-lending broken out), and visits are per typical week, never annual. | Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Gaming (Ontario open data) | August 17, 2026 | |
| Public Information Centre #3 | 2051 Transportation Master Plan The third and final public consultation on the TMP replacement, held four months before the 2026 election; the incoming council adopts the plan, not this one. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| RVH annual report showcases progress as new board leadership continues guiding future growth FY2025-26 volumes: 96,521 emergency visits (up 2.6%), 538,825 total patient visits, 16,348 surgeries, 2,184 births, and a $650-million annual budget. | Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre | August 17, 2026 | |
| RVH's Capital Expansion Plan States the one-system-two-sites plan, the Stage 1.2 submissions (March 30, 2022; revised September 25, 2024) and Stage 1.3 planning, and timelines expressly conditioned on government approval. Publishes no cost estimate and no bed count. | Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre | August 17, 2026 | |
| Summary of Valid Votes Cast for Each Candidate, by general election Official candidate-level results for each Ontario general election 1999-2025 covering a Barrie riding. The commonly-repeated 609-vote margin for Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte in 2022 is wrong; this source's own Plurality field reads 296 votes. | Elections Ontario | August 17, 2026 | |
| The Daily — Labour Force Survey, March 2026 Names Barrie among the five highest unemployment rates of the 20 largest CMAs in March 2026 (8.5%). By July 2026 Barrie had improved to 7.0% and ranked mid-pack — the page states both. | Statistics Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Thirty-seventh General Election 2000: Official Voting Results — Barrie-Simcoe-Bradford Full candidate field for the November 27, 2000 general election in Barrie-Simcoe-Bradford: Aileen Carroll (Lib) 26,309, Rob Hamilton (Alliance) 17,600, Jane MacLaren (PC) 7,588, Keith Lindsay (NDP) 2,385, Ian Woods (Action) 387, Brian K. White (no affiliation) 234. This election predates the site's systematic 2003-onward federal/provincial coverage; it is included as a documented exception because Rob Hamilton's 2000 candidacy is directly relevant to his confirmed identity as Mayor Robert J. Hamilton (2003-2006). | Elections Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Time Spent in Emergency Departments Public reporting; the January 2026 period gives RVH an average wait of 1.9 hours to first assessment by a doctor against an Ontario average of 1.7. Deeper RVH-level measures sit behind the interactive dashboard and are not published here until read. | Ontario Health | August 17, 2026 | |
| Traffic Counts (Open Data) 7,616 records, 2000-2025, turning-movement and automatic-recorder counts. One 2024 record (Mapleview Dr & Acura Entrance, 308,156 daily) is a tenfold keying error against its own prior-year and opposite-leg counts and is excluded. For automatic-recorder rows the peak-hour field equals the daily total and is not meaningful; only turning-movement counts have a real peak-hour figure. These are leg volumes at counted intersections, not AADT. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Winter Operations Plan (revision starting November 2025) The operational document: 1,654 lane-km of roads and 660 km of sidewalks, the route counts, the November 15 to April 15 season, application rates, and the Minimum Maintenance Standards tables reproduced with their section citations. Local copy in with the site's research files. A 26 MB file. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Winter Road & Sidewalk Maintenance The public service standard: the three route tiers and their trigger depths and cleanup times, the sidewalk tiers, the downtown by-law exception, the windrow policy, and the overnight parking ban. Also states an average annual snowfall of 286 cm, unattributed and higher than the Environment Canada normal. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Housing Community Improvement Plan (City of Barrie page) The City's affordable-housing incentive suite and its stated targets: 15% of new units city-wide, 20% within the Urban Growth Centre and Major Transit Station Areas. | City of Barrie | August 11, 2026 | |
| Municipal Housing Pledge (City of Barrie page) The pledge in the City's own words: 23,000 units by 2031, made February 2023, with 13,916 units already approved at the time. Also states that "approximately 30% of all units approved since 2015 have been constructed" — the City's own account of why approvals and completions are different measures. | City of Barrie | August 11, 2026 | |
| Ontario Rewards Barrie With $6.34 Million for Exceeding 2023 Housing Targets States the payment ($6,344,201), the 1,716 starts behind it, and the Building Faster Fund's 80%-of-target payment threshold. The canonical page is JS-rendered; text via api.news.ontario.ca. | Government of Ontario — Premier's Office | August 11, 2026 | |
| Ontario's housing supply progress, January–December 2023 (dataset) The province's own scorecard. Barrie row verbatim: "Barrie,23000,3991,1687,1716,101.72%,Exceeded". | Government of Ontario — data.ontario.ca | August 11, 2026 | |
| Ontario's housing supply progress, January–December 2024 (dataset) Barrie row verbatim: "Barrie,23000,5450,1917,1459,76.11%,Not met". The same series that recorded 101.72% for 2023. | Government of Ontario — data.ontario.ca | August 11, 2026 | |
| Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population — Barrie (City and CMA) Census day was 2021-05-11. The profile page is server-rendered, so the figures were read from the rendered tables rather than through fetch-source.sh; the extraction records the rows verbatim. It also settles a mislabel: the 2021 CMA population is 212,856, and the 154,517 figure this project's notes once called "the CMA" matches no census geography (the population centre is 154,676). | Statistics Canada | August 9, 2026 | |
| Statistics Canada table 34-10-0154-01 — CMHC housing starts, under construction and completions in selected census metropolitan areas, monthly (Barrie CMA rows) CMHC reports the Barrie CMA — a larger geography than the city, and there is no city-level equivalent in this program. The annual figures on the site are sums of the twelve published monthly values, stated as such. (RESEARCH.md previously pointed at table 34-10-0126-01 for this; that table is province-level only.) | Statistics Canada / Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation | August 9, 2026 |
How this section is built: generated from the source registry, the site’s index of every document it holds. This table is not maintained by hand — it is read out of the same data the site's pages read, so it cannot list a source the site does not hold, or omit one it does.
Reporting the site leans on
Where a figure exists only in journalism — a cost stated to council and reported, a contract total, an announcement with no newsroom release — the story is listed here and the page says the figure is the outlet’s. Reporting is never treated as a document. Everything the outlets published about this election, whether or not the site relies on it, is indexed separately at /data/media-index/.
| Document | Published by | Used on | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrie Police formalize increased downtown enforcement but say legal limits remain barrier The board converted 7 special constable ("City Guardians") positions to permanent; Jan-Apr 2026 vs. 2025 the board was told downtown calls for service rose 175% against a citywide crime decline of 25%. A same-meeting BarrieToday story attributes the 175% to officer engagement rather than calls for service -- the two outlets describe the same board report differently; this page states the discrepancy rather than picking one. | Barrie 360 (Julius Hern) | August 18, 2026 | |
| Barrie library officials bite back on council's spending restrictions Council passed a motion, without public notice, requiring the library board to seek council approval for any capital expense not already in the annual budget, until a new financial-governance policy is in place. Board chair Austin Mitchell: "I am disappointed at this motion." The board adopted a Financial Controls and Oversight Policy in response (Board Motion #24-26). | BarrieToday (Bob Bruton) | August 18, 2026 | |
| Barrie police seeing less 'total harm,' but more commercial crime The service's 2024 recap to its board, from organizational researcher Madison Charman: about 76,000 calls for service, 13% criminal in nature, total harm down about 8% year over year. "Total harm" and "community-reported harm" are the service's own internal scoring measures, not a StatCan statistic, and its board updates have since given inconsistent percentage figures for overlapping periods -- treat any single harm-score percentage as the service's own framing of that particular update, not a stable series. | BarrieToday (Nikki Cole) | August 18, 2026 | |
| City could check out library through 'value-for-money' audit Council's January 2024 library budget cuts: $100,000 from materials and programs, $78,387 cut from a community-navigator position on the expectation the County would fund it, and Mayor Nuttall's public objection to the board's accumulated surplus, followed by an internal-audit value-for-money review of the library and the County. | BarrieToday (Bob Bruton) | August 18, 2026 | |
| Municipalities Take Note: Ontario Regulation Expanding Strong Mayor Powers Comes into Effect Corroborates O. Reg. 180/23 extending strong-mayor powers to 26 more municipalities effective July 1, 2023 — the same date and mechanism the City's own 2024 budget book states for Barrie. Does not itself name Barrie; the primary source for that is the City's budget document (2024-operating-budget-executive-summary). | Hicks Morley | August 18, 2026 | |
| Nuttall uses 'strong mayor' powers to strike new executive committee On-the-record councillor reaction to a January 20, 2025 mayoral direction restructuring the mayor's task force into an executive committee — the fullest documented debate over a specific use of the powers found in this site's research. | BarrieToday (Bob Bruton) | August 18, 2026 | |
| Only small number of Barrie police calls in 2025 were criminal Year-end 2025 update to the board: about 80,000 calls for service, only 57% requiring an officer; 7,298 charges laid against 2,126 people in 2025; most common charges were breach/administrative justice offences, then theft under $5,000, shoplifting and assault. | BarrieToday (Nikki Cole) | August 18, 2026 | |
| 'Expanding our footprint': Barrie's library spending rises 2.9 per cent, new branch opening The Letitia Heights branch's operating and fit-out costs, the library's 2026 operating budget, and the south-end complex contribution — figures from the library board's budget presentation, which is not separately published. | BarrieToday | August 17, 2026 | |
| Barrie Transit provider with $528M contract not compensated during disruptions The twenty-year MVT operating contract's value and end date, the City's 2025 payment, and the fact that the operator is not compensated during disruptions — all attributed in the story to the City's director of transit and parking strategy. No City document stating them has been located. | BarrieToday (Bob Bruton) | August 17, 2026 | |
| Barrie unveils defence investment incentives at CANSEC The $50 million package and the $2.5 million for Armed Forces training at Georgian, issued by mayoral direction (MDIR007-26, May 28, 2026) under the strong-mayor powers rather than by a council vote. Zoning implementation was By-law 2026-077, later appealed to the Ontario Land Tribunal. | Barrie 360 | August 17, 2026 | |
| Bayfield St. bridge replacement work expected to begin this year Follow-up to "Bayfield St., Hwy. 400 bridge replacement moves into detail design stage" (2025-10-02); together they track the same MTO-led project the City's capital plan puts at roughly $26.7 million of City contribution over the 2026-2030 window. | BarrieToday (Bob Bruton) | August 17, 2026 | |
| City backtracks on road diet for Madelaine Dr., opts for stop signs The end of a road-diet debate that ran from a May 2025 council discussion to this July 2025 reversal; corroborated by the capital plan's own description of a road diet as a low-cost calming option and by the traffic-calming page's permanent Madelaine installation. | BarrieToday (Bob Bruton) | August 17, 2026 | |
| City extends full closure on McKay Rd. until year's end Construction closure distinct from the McKay Road Interchange (EN1251) project, which has not started; this is the ROW/sanitary work under projects EN1256/EN1257. | BarrieToday | August 17, 2026 | |
| Dunlop Street bridge replacement begins on Highway 400 in Barrie The Dunlop Street Interchange Replacement, project EN1306 in the 2026 capital plan. | BarrieToday (Bob Bruton) | August 17, 2026 | |
| For Barrie, clearing windrows would cost more than $13M a year The December 10, 2025 staff memo's arithmetic: about $13 million a year operating, $8.5 million of equipment, $250,000 of software, and plowing times tripled. The memo itself went to a circulation list rather than a published agenda. | BarrieToday (Bob Bruton) | August 17, 2026 | |
| International student enrolment down 17 per cent at Georgian College The international-student cap's effect on Georgian: enrolment down 17%, a $13 million deficit, about 270 staff affected. The college's own annual report states the enrolment total but not these year-over-year effects. | Barrie 360 | August 17, 2026 | |
| Pass the salt: Barrie council to sift through winter receipts The 2025-26 winter's cost (more than $10 million, bills still arriving), the 390 cm of snow, salt use and the shortage, and the service-review motions. Winter control has no line of its own in the budget book, so these staff figures exist only in reporting. | BarrieToday (Bob Bruton) | August 17, 2026 | |
| Province spending $6.6M to connect thousands in Barrie area to primary care The $6.6 million and the roughly 20,000 unattached residents it is expected to reach. No matching provincial newsroom release has been found, which is why the page states the figure as the announcement's, reported. | BarrieToday (Nikki Cole) | August 17, 2026 | |
| Public school board approves $771M budget with cuts linked to enrolment decline The Simcoe County District School Board's 2026-27 budget and its projected enrolment decline — the board's budget documents were not located online, so the figures are the reporting's. | BarrieToday | August 17, 2026 |
How this section is built: generated from the source registry, the site’s index of every document it holds. This table is not maintained by hand — it is read out of the same data the site's pages read, so it cannot list a source the site does not hold, or omit one it does.
Council decisions and governance
Staff reports, minutes, program records and the provincial law behind them. The paper trail for what council decided and who could decide it.
| Document | Published by | Used on | Retrieved |
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| Financial Statement — Auditor's Report Candidate (Form 4 / MMAH form 9503P) Sixty-six separate PDFs, one per 2022 candidate, individually linked from each row on this site rather than from one listing page. Most are handwritten forms, scanned; a figure counts as verified here only when Box C and D's own arithmetic closes (C2+C3+C4=C5, C1−C5=D1) or the "no contributions or expenses" box is legibly ticked. The City's own disclaimer applies to every figure: as filed by candidates, not verified or amended by staff. Sixty-nine candidates were certified in 2022; this set holds 66 statements and the gap between the two counts is not yet reconciled against Notices of Default or late filings. | City of Barrie, filed under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, s.88.25 | August 19, 2026 | |
| Financial Statement — Auditor's Report Candidate (Form 4) Internet Archive Sixty-eight separate PDFs recovered from the Internet Archive (crawled 2015-10-30/31; the original barrie.ca SharePoint page is gone), one per 2014 candidate, individually linked from each row on this site. Nearly all are handwritten and scanned. Most 2014-era forms use a different box layout (Revision B: C2+C3=C4 total expenses, D1=C1−C4) than the 2022 forms; a figure counts as verified here only when that revision's own arithmetic closes or the "no contributions or expenses" box is legibly ticked. The City's own disclaimer applies to every figure: as filed, not verified or amended by staff. | City of Barrie, filed under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, s.88.25 | August 19, 2026 | |
| Financial Statement — Auditor's Report Candidate (Form 4), 2016 Ward 7 by-election Internet Archive Eight separate PDFs recovered from the Internet Archive (crawled 2016-05-09), filed under the same URL path as the 2014 general election statements but naming the Ward 7 by-election explicitly. Individually linked from each row on this site. Same Revision-B form layout and verification discipline as the 2014 statements. | City of Barrie, filed under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, s.88.25 | August 19, 2026 | |
| Financial Statement — Auditor's Report Candidate (Form 4), 2020 Ward 3 by-election Internet Archive Seven separate PDFs recovered from the Internet Archive (crawled 2021-01-19, with one later capture from 2022-09-28), individually linked from each row on this site. One capture, filed under the name "Gerry-Marshal" (single L), is a mislabeled duplicate of Kelly Patterson McGrath's own statement — confirmed by reading the name on the form itself — and is excluded from every table here rather than misattributed to Gerry Marshall, whose real statement is the separate "Gerry-Marshall" (double L) capture. | City of Barrie, filed under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, s.88.25 | August 19, 2026 | |
| Financial Statement — Auditor's Report Candidate (Form 4), and Financial Statement — Registered Third Party (Form 8) Internet Archive Sixty-three separate PDFs recovered from the Internet Archive (crawled September 2019; the original barrie.ca page is gone), individually linked from each row on this site. Sixty-one are candidate statements (Form 4); two are registered third-party advertiser statements (Form 8, Campaign for Life Coalition and Dave Forfar), which carry no "nil filing" checkbox and so are never treated as a proven nil. Two of the PDFs in this set (Donald Blais, Keenan Aylwin) are truncated/corrupted and could not be opened at all. The City's own disclaimer applies to every figure: as filed, not verified or amended by staff. | City of Barrie, filed under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996, ss.88.25 and 88.29 | August 19, 2026 | |
| Board of Trustees Nine members appointed by City Council for the council term: seven citizen members, two City Councillors. The Public Libraries Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.44, s.10(2)(a) would allow council up to four councillor-seats on a nine-member board; Barrie seats two. | Barrie Public Library | August 18, 2026 | |
| Mayor, council and committees — Mayoral decisions and directions The City's own register of every mayoral decision and direction made under Part VI.1, published as O. Reg. 530/22 s.3 requires. Most entries are routine by-law approvals; the page states that rather than treating a raw count as a meaningful figure on its own. | City of Barrie | August 18, 2026 | |
| Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25, Part VI.1 (Special Powers of Heads of Council) Sections 284.2-284.17, inserted by the Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (in force November 23, 2022). Read from the e-Laws static document endpoint; consolidation from June 2, 2026. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 18, 2026 | |
| O. Reg. 180/23 (Part VI.1 of the Act) The regulation that designated Barrie (item 2 of 27) under s.284.2, in force July 1, 2023 per its own s.3. Superseded on the designation list by O. Reg. 331/23 and O. Reg. 41/25, which have kept Barrie designated continuously since. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 18, 2026 | |
| O. Reg. 189/26 (amending O. Reg. 530/22, Part VI.1 of the Act) Filed June 22, 2026: the election-year freeze on an outgoing mayor's CAO-appointment, organizational-structure and over-$50,000 by-law approval powers, plus the restriction on starting the following year's budget clock late in an election year. Operates as amendments consolidated into O. Reg. 530/22 (s. 11), which is why the two are cited together. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 18, 2026 | |
| O. Reg. 530/22 (Part VI.1 of the Act) The operative regulation: the budget-proposal clock (s. 7), the election-year freeze added by O. Reg. 189/26 (s. 11), the prescribed-municipality schedule (Barrie is item 12), and the carve-outs from the veto and by-law-proposal powers. Consolidation from June 22, 2026. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 18, 2026 | |
| O. Reg. 580/22 (prescribed provincial priorities) The two priorities the veto and by-law-proposal powers are tied to: 1.5 million new homes by 2031, and infrastructure to support housing (transit, roads, utilities, servicing). Unamended since December 2022. | Government of Ontario — e-Laws | August 18, 2026 | |
| Ontario Municipal Councillors' Guide, ch. 10: Strong Mayor Powers and Duties States the reporting duty in plain language: written documentation to the clerk and council by the next business day, made public. | Government of Ontario | August 18, 2026 | |
| Members of Barrie Councils 1837 to 2022 The City's own council roster by term and ward, including its own annotations of members who left mid-term for higher office (e.g. "became a Member of Parliament"). The primary source for the municipal side of every crossover on this page; the City's 2003, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2020 municipal-election result PDFs are scanned images with no text layer, which is part of why a full crossover list has not existed on this site before. | City of Barrie | August 17, 2026 | |
| Proclamation Declaring the Representation Order to be in Force (SI/2013-102) Split Barrie into two ridings for the first time: "Barrie-Innisfil" (ED #4, the southern part of the city plus Innisfil) and "Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte" (ED #5, the northern part plus Springwater and part of Oro-Medonte), each defined by a line running Dunlop Street West to Tiffin Street to Lakeshore Drive. First contested in the 2015 general election. | Government of Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Proclamation Declaring the Representation Order to be in Force (SI/2023-57) Renamed "Barrie-Innisfil" to "Barrie South-Innisfil" (ED #4) and revised "Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte" (ED #5) to run the dividing line to Kempenfelt Bay. First contested in the 2025 general election. Ontario did not adopt this federal boundary provincially, so from 2025 the two levels of government use DIFFERENT names for the same southern Barrie seat -- federally "Barrie South-Innisfil", provincially still "Barrie-Innisfil". | Government of Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Proclamation Declaring the Representation Order to be in Force as of the First Dissolution of Parliament that Occurs After May 1, 2004 (SI/2003-154) Electoral district #4, "Barrie": "that part of the County of Simcoe comprised of the City of Barrie" -- the whole city in one riding, first contested in the 2004 general election. | Government of Canada | August 17, 2026 | |
| Representation Act, 2015 (Schedule 1 to the Electoral Boundaries Act, 2015, S.O. 2015, c. 31) Adopted the 2013 federal Representation Order's riding boundaries for provincial use starting with the 2018 general election -- which is why "Barrie-Innisfil" and "Barrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonte" exist provincially too, and why the two levels' boundaries diverged only when the federal map was redrawn again in 2023 and Ontario did not follow. | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | August 17, 2026 | |
| "Barrie's speed cameras issued $9M worth of tickets over two years" (BarrieToday, syndicated to OrilliaMatters) Internet Archive | BarrieToday / Village Media | August 9, 2026 | |
| Bill 56, Building a More Competitive Economy Act, 2025 (S.O. 2025, c. 11) — status page Royal Assent November 3, 2025. Schedule 5 repeals Highway Traffic Act Part XIV.1, the authority for automated speed enforcement, in force the later of November 14, 2025 and Royal Assent — hence the province-wide end date of 2025-11-14. | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | August 9, 2026 | |
| City Council Minutes, April 29, 2026 (Final) Motion 2026-A-066 (item 11.1.8) adopts CCS-007-2026 unamended, "Carried", with no recorded vote. | City of Barrie — City Council | August 9, 2026 | |
| Ontario news release, "Ontario Introducing Legislation to Refocus School Boards on Student Achievement" (2026-04-13) Announces the Putting Student Achievement First Act, 2026 (Royal Assent 2026-05-07): the 12-trustee cap, honoraria set by regulation, limits on trustee discretionary expenses, and the "eight school boards ... under provincial supervision" count. The canonical page is JS-rendered; text via api.news.ontario.ca. | Government of Ontario — Ministry of Education | August 9, 2026 | |
| School board oversight (Ministry of Education page, updated 2026-05-29) The authoritative list of boards under provincial supervision and their supervisors. Eight boards as retrieved; neither Simcoe board appears. A live page; re-capture before citing a change. | Government of Ontario — Ministry of Education | August 9, 2026 | |
| Speed Limits & Enforcement (City program page, as of 2026-08-09) The City's own record of the ended ASE program: authorization (motion 22-G-131), cameras live 2023-12-01, the end date of 2025-11-14, the no-refunds statement, and the full camera-location history with serial numbers and Certificates of Accuracy. A live page; re-capture before citing anything new from it. | City of Barrie | August 9, 2026 | |
| Staff Report CCS-007-2026 — Council Compensation Review and Revisions to the Reimbursement of Council Expenses Policy Pages 53-60 of the General Committee agenda full package of 2026-04-22 (item 7.2); the extraction is that page range. Appendix A carries the comparator table and the proposed December 2026 rates. | City of Barrie — Legislative and Court Services (W. Cooke, City Clerk) | August 9, 2026 |
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