Where your property taxes go

That hierarchy is the thing to know when reading the chart. A budget line has three lives — the amount asked for, the amount approved, and the amount actually spent — and they differ: the 2025 police budget ran $975,286 over its approval, and the 2019 County of Simcoe approval was never published at all. Most of the partner lines from 2016 through 2023 are approved amounts, the 2024 partner lines are actuals, and each row's note says exactly which life of the number it is showing. 2026 is the exception the fade marks: Council approved the City's own portion on November 12, 2025 at a 0% increase (the fourth year in a row, continuing the dedicated 2% infrastructure-renewal increase) and the service-partner portion on December 10, 2025, setting the total to be raised — the "levy requirement" — at $338,922,579. But both motions carried "as amended", and no consolidated approved breakdown has been published, so every 2026 segment is still the amount requested, and the total is firmer than its parts.

The approvals are on the record even though the minutes are not. The City's public meeting portal has no meetings of any type between late October 2025 and mid-January 2026, which swallowed both budget meetings. A later staff report, written outside that gap, states the dates, the motion numbers and the approved total, and that is what this page cites.

Source: Staff Report CCS-010-2026 — 2026 Tax Rates, City of Barrie — Legislative and Court Services, dated April 22, 2026. Original document. States that Council approved the City portion of the 2026 budget on November 12, 2025 under Motion 25-G-236 (as amended) and the Service Partner portion on December 10, 2025 under Motions 25-G-259 and 25-G-261 (as amended), and that both set the total property tax levy requirement at $338,922,579. Adopted by Council on April 29, 2026 as motion 2026-A-071. Because both approving motions were amended, a line-by-line amount in the requested budget books is not the approved figure unless another document confirms it. Retrieved August 11, 2026.

• ¹ The net tax levy for City operations including the Infrastructure Investment Funding levy, as requested in the 2026 Operating Budget and Financial Overview (p. 19; the revenue chart on p. 17 shows the same figure as "Net Tax Levy"). The document does not break the IIF portion out of this total, so it is one row, not two. Council approved the City portion 2025-11-12 at the proposed 0% increase.
• ² 2026 requested budget, tax funded — an increase of $6,163,685 (8.53%) over the 2025 approved $72,240,720. A request, not yet confirmed as the approved amount.
• ³ 2026 requested budget, tax funded. Covers long-term care, paramedic services, social services, housing and homelessness, and child care, plus a $2,494,000 contribution to the County Capital Reserve.
• ⁴ 2026 requested budget, tax funded (net of a draw from development charge reserves).
• ⁵ 2026 requested budget, tax funded.
• ⁶ Lake Simcoe Region and Nottawasaga Valley conservation authorities, tax-funded portions only — the balance of both budgets is funded from water rates.
• ⁷ 2026 requested budget, tax funded — an increase of $90,000 (150%) over the 2025 $60,000.

Sources: Operating Budget and Financial Overview — 2026 Business Plan, City of Barrie. Original document. Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2026, City of Barrie. Original document. Covers the Barrie Police Service, County of Simcoe, library and other partner budgets as presented to the City. All retrieved August 9, 2026.

Where did the money actually go?

Total actual spending was $252.3 million in 2010 and $546.5 million in 2025. Police were 16.4% of it in 2010 and 14.4% in 2025 (this site's arithmetic). The note under the table explains the one-off events and the places where a line was reported differently.

Source: Financial Information Return, Schedule 40 (Consolidated Statement of Operations: Expenses), City of Barrie, 2010 to 2025, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (as filed by the City of Barrie), dated June 15, 2026. Original document. The Province's open-data files fir_data_2010.zip to fir_data_2025.zip, Barrie rows (MUNID 43042). Function totals are column 11, "Total Expenses After Adjustments", of each subtotal line: 0299 general government, 0499 protection (0410 fire, 0420 police), 0699 transportation, 0899 environmental, 1099 health, 1299 social and family, 1499 social housing, 1699 recreation and culture, 1899 planning and development; 9910 is the total. Police salaries are line 0420, column 1. 2025 is the City's return as last updated on June 15, 2026; earlier years can be revised by later filings. Retrieved October 8, 2026.

How much does the City owe, and how much has it set aside?

Long-term debt was $114 million at the end of 2010, peaked at $335.4 million in 2021 and was $248.4 million at the end of 2025; reserves and reserve funds went from $126.9 million to $306.4 million over the same years.

Sources: Financial Information Return, Schedules 51 (Tangible Capital Assets), 70 (Statement of Financial Position) and 74 (Long Term Liabilities), City of Barrie, 2010 to 2025, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (as filed by the City of Barrie), dated June 15, 2026. Original document. The Province's open-data files fir_data_2010.zip to fir_data_2025.zip, Barrie rows (MUNID 43042). Schedule 51A line 9910: column 3 additions and betterments, column 8 annual amortization, column 11 closing net book value. Schedule 74A line 9910: total net long-term liabilities. Schedule 70 line 6420: reserves and reserve funds. 2025 is the City's return as last updated on June 15, 2026; earlier years can be revised by later filings. Financial Information Return, Schedule 60 (Continuity of Reserves and Reserve Funds), City of Barrie, 2010 to 2025, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (as filed by the City of Barrie), dated June 15, 2026. Original document. The Province's open-data files fir_data_2010.zip to fir_data_2025.zip, Barrie rows (MUNID 43042). Line 2099, balance at end of year: column 1 obligatory reserve funds (deferred revenue), column 2 discretionary reserve funds, column 3 reserves. Columns 2 and 3 add up to Schedule 70 line 6420 in every year. All retrieved October 8, 2026.

The earlier years

The 2024 and 2025 budget books are no longer linked from the City's budget page; both were recovered from the Internet Archive and transcribed on August 17, 2026. The 2024 partner lines are the actuals, from the 2026 Service Partners book's "2024 Actuals" column; each row's note carries the request it replaced. For 2025 only the police line has a published actual — $975,286 over the approved budget, per the service's own annual report — so the other 2025 partner lines remain the requests as presented to the City. Both years' city-operations line is the recommended figure: no city-side actual appears in any retrieved document.

• ¹ 2025 recommended budget, net of non-tax funding. A recommended figure; a consolidated approved breakdown has not been retrieved.
• ² 2025 actual, per the service's 2025 annual report — $975,286 over the approved $72,240,721, driven by salaries and benefits. The only 2025 partner with a published actual; the other 2025 partner lines remain requests.
• ³ 2025 requested budget, tax funded; includes a $6,750,000 contribution to the County Capital Reserve.
• ⁴ 2025 requested budget, tax funded.
• ⁵ 2025 requested budget, tax funded.
• ⁶ 2025 requested budget, tax funded.
• ⁷ 2025 requested budget, tax funded.

Sources: Budget and Financial Overview — 2025 Business Plan & Operating Budget, City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. 2025 Annual Report (for the Board), Barrie Police Service. Original document. 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%). Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2025, City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. Printed p.308 carries the police service's 2025 budget by line (dated 2024/12/04), municipal funding required $72,240,720, $809,735 above the board deck's September 2024 $71,430,985. All retrieved August 17, 2026.

• ¹ 2024 recommended budget, net of non-tax funding. The one non-actual line in this year: no city-side 2024 actual appears in any retrieved document.
• ² 2024 actual, tax funded, per the 2026 Service Partners book's "2024 Actuals" column — identical to the 2024 request.
• ³ 2024 actual, tax funded, per the 2026 Service Partners book's "2024 Actuals" column; includes the $5,250,000 contribution to the County Capital Reserve. The 2024 request was $30,548,855.
• ⁴ 2024 actual, tax funded, per the 2026 Service Partners book's "2024 Actuals" column. The 2024 request was $9,731,033.
• ⁵ 2024 actual, tax funded, per the 2026 Service Partners book's "2024 Actuals" column. The 2024 request was $2,204,742.
• ⁶ 2024 actual, tax funded, per the 2026 Service Partners book's "2024 Actuals" column. The 2024 request was $790,771.
• ⁷ 2024 actual, tax funded, per the 2026 Service Partners book's "2024 Actuals" column. The 2024 request was $60,000. The airport line ends here: motion 23-G-271 (November 22, 2023) sold the City's 10% stake to the County of Simcoe, so from 2024 there is no airport budget and a zero line is not rendered.

Sources: Budget and Financial Overview — 2024 Business Plan & Operating Budget, City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. Retrieved August 17, 2026. Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2026, City of Barrie. Original document. Covers the Barrie Police Service, County of Simcoe, library and other partner budgets as presented to the City. Retrieved August 9, 2026.

The city-operations figures for 2016 to 2023 here are derived. In those years the City's "TOTAL RECOMMENDED TAX OPERATING BUDGET" row includes the Service Partner lines; from 2024 the row of the same name excludes them. Charting the printed total for 2016 to 2023 beside the partner lines would count the partners twice, so for those years this page subtracts the book's own Service Partners & Grants section total from its printed net total. Each row's note gives both figures, so the subtraction can be checked against the documents.

2016 through 2023 fill out the rest of the record: city-operations is derived from each year's own requested total as above, and the partner lines — police, library, county, health unit, conservation authorities, and the smaller lines the City also levied for, the Lake Simcoe Regional Airport (until the City sold its stake after 2023) and the tourism grant (until 2019) — are the approved amounts, each read from the following year's comparator column rather than that year's own request — a request and its eventual approval can differ, and the comparator column is the only place the approved figure is printed. With the derived city-operations figure added back, the lines sum to the book's own printed grand total, which is the check that nothing is missing. One line stands apart: the 2019 County of Simcoe figure is the 2019 actual, from the 2021 book's "2019 Actuals" column, because no 2019-approved figure on this basis was ever published — the 2020 book's County table is a stale, character-for-character duplicate of the 2019 book's own row.

One document shows how the whole tax budget did against plan. The City's 2017 Year End Report, the only such report still retrievable, puts 2017 net tax-supported spending at $224,572,679 against a $230,147,120 budget, a $5,574,441 underspend. With $76,604 more corporate revenue than budgeted, it reports an unadjusted surplus of $5,651,045. The Service Partner lines came within $128 thousand of their budgets; City divisions came in under by millions. Its 2016 column is the only city-side 2016 actual in any retrieved document. Reports like it were presented every spring; the others survive only as motions in the meeting minutes.

Source: 2017 Year End Report (Staff Report EMT002-18), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. The only surviving report of its kind: net divisional spending, actual against budget, for tax-supported services, on the same basis as the site's levy figures. Carries a 2016 actuals column. Council minutes show an equivalent report was presented each spring, but no other year's report survives online. Retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ 2023 requested/recommended, net. Derived: total net $283,052,735 minus Service Partners & Grants section net $103,023,434 (see the 2016 row's note for why). The 2024 book's comparator gives the 2023 APPROVED city-only net as $178,081,185 on the partner-exclusive basis.
• ² 2023 approved, tax funded.
• ³ 2023 approved, tax funded.
• ⁴ 2023 approved, tax funded.
• ⁵ 2023 approved, tax funded.
• ⁶ 2023 approved, tax funded.
• ⁷ 2023 approved, tax funded — the final year: motion 23-G-271 (November 22, 2023) sold the City's 10% stake in the airport to the County of Simcoe, so no airport line exists from 2024 on.
• ⁸ 2023 approved, tax funded.

Sources: Operating Budget and Financial Overview 2023, City of Barrie. Original document. 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. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2024, City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. Printed p.290 carries the police service's 2024 budget by line (dated 2023/11/21); same $67,523,320 request as the service's deck. Retrieved August 17, 2026.

• ¹ 2022 requested/recommended, net. Derived: total net $268,070,294 minus Service Partners & Grants section net $92,554,525 (see the 2016 row's note for why).
• ² 2022 approved, tax funded.
• ³ 2022 approved, tax funded.
• ⁴ 2022 approved, tax funded.
• ⁵ 2022 approved, tax funded.
• ⁶ 2022 approved, tax funded.
• ⁷ 2022 approved, tax funded. The 2024 Service Partners book records the 2022 actual as $159,933.
• ⁸ 2022 approved, tax funded.

Sources: Budget and Financial Overview (2022 budget), City of Barrie. Original document. 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. Operating Budget and Financial Overview 2023, City of Barrie. Original document. 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. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ 2021 requested/recommended, net. Derived: total net $262,695,509 minus Service Partners & Grants section net $89,835,921 (see the 2016 row's note for why).
• ² 2021 approved, tax funded.
• ³ 2021 approved, tax funded.
• ⁴ 2021 approved, tax funded.
• ⁵ 2021 approved, tax funded.
• ⁶ 2021 approved, tax funded.
• ⁷ 2021 approved, tax funded.
• ⁸ 2021 approved, tax funded.

Sources: Budget and Financial Overview (2021 budget), City of Barrie. Original document. 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. Budget and Financial Overview (2022 budget), City of Barrie. Original document. 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. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ 2020 requested/recommended, net. Derived: total net $251,287,954 minus Service Partners & Grants section net $86,527,461 (see the 2016 row's note for why).
• ² 2020 approved, tax funded.
• ³ 2020 approved, tax funded.
• ⁴ 2020 approved, tax funded.
• ⁵ 2020 approved, tax funded.
• ⁶ 2020 approved, tax funded.
• ⁷ 2020 approved, tax funded. From 2020 the "Other Service Partners & Grants" net is Physician Recruitment alone, so no separate other-partners line exists from here on.
• ⁸ 2020 approved, tax funded.

Sources: Budget and Financial Overview (2020 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2019 APPROVED Service Partner amounts, with one exception. Its County of Simcoe detail table is a stale copy of the 2019 book's, down to the same "$1,923,00" typo, so it is not used for the 2019 approved County figure. The summary table's 2019 County net of $18,473,000 leaves out the County Capital Reserve contribution, so it is on a narrower basis than the site's Total - Tax Funded figures. The 2019 County row uses the 2021 book's "2019 Actuals" column instead. Budget and Financial Overview (2021 budget), City of Barrie. Original document. 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. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ 2019 requested/recommended, net. Derived: total net $239,668,232 minus Service Partners & Grants section net $84,103,313 (see the 2016 row's note for why).
• ² 2019 approved, tax funded.
• ³ 2019 ACTUAL, not approved -- the only figure in this series that is an actual. The 2019-approved figure was never published on this basis: the 2020 book's County detail table is a stale, character-for-character duplicate of the 2019 book's own (shared "$1,923,00" typo), so the 2021 book's "2019 Actuals" Total - Tax Funded row ($19,948,986, including the $2.0M County Capital Reserve contribution) is the closest documented 2019 figure. The 2020 book's summary table does print a 2019-approved County net of $18,473,000, but on the narrower basis that excludes the capital-reserve contribution, so it is not comparable to this column.
• ⁴ 2019 approved, tax funded.
• ⁵ 2019 approved, tax funded.
• ⁶ 2019 approved, tax funded.
• ⁷ 2019 approved, tax funded.
• ⁸ Derived: the book's "Other Service Partners & Grants" net $173,520 minus the $60,000 Physician Recruitment shown separately — the 2019 book shows the line dropping $100,000 from 2018.
• ⁹ 2019 approved, tax funded.

Sources: Budget and Financial Overview (2019 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. Budget and Financial Overview (2020 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2019 APPROVED Service Partner amounts, with one exception. Its County of Simcoe detail table is a stale copy of the 2019 book's, down to the same "$1,923,00" typo, so it is not used for the 2019 approved County figure. The summary table's 2019 County net of $18,473,000 leaves out the County Capital Reserve contribution, so it is on a narrower basis than the site's Total - Tax Funded figures. The 2019 County row uses the 2021 book's "2019 Actuals" column instead. Budget and Financial Overview (2021 budget), City of Barrie. Original document. 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. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ 2018 requested/recommended, net. Derived: total net $229,424,505 minus Service Partners & Grants section net $81,054,261 (see the 2016 row's note for why).
• ² 2018 approved, tax funded.
• ³ 2018 approved, tax funded.
• ⁴ 2018 approved, tax funded.
• ⁵ 2018 approved, tax funded.
• ⁶ 2018 approved, tax funded.
• ⁷ 2018 approved, tax funded.
• ⁸ Derived: the book's "Other Service Partners & Grants" net $273,520 minus the $60,000 Physician Recruitment shown separately; per the detail tables the remainder is Tourism Barrie.
• ⁹ 2018 approved, tax funded.

Sources: Executive Summary (2018 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2017 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. Budget and Financial Overview (2019 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ 2017 requested/recommended, net. Derived: total net $220,174,607 minus Service Partners & Grants section net $78,516,372 (see the 2016 row's note for why).
• ² 2017 approved, tax funded.
• ³ 2017 approved, tax funded.
• ⁴ 2017 approved, tax funded.
• ⁵ 2017 approved, tax funded.
• ⁶ 2017 approved, tax funded.
• ⁷ 2017 approved, tax funded.
• ⁸ Derived: the book's "Other Service Partners & Grants" net $273,520 minus the $60,000 Physician Recruitment shown separately; per the detail tables the remainder is Tourism Barrie.
• ⁹ 2017 approved, tax funded.

Sources: Executive Summary (2017 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2016 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. Executive Summary (2018 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2017 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ 2016 requested/recommended, net. Derived: the book's TOTAL RECOMMENDED TAX OPERATING BUDGET net $210,068,280 minus its Service Partners & Grants section net $78,198,244 -- the printed total includes the partners on this year's basis, so charting it beside the partner lines would double-count them.
• ² 2016 approved, tax funded.
• ³ 2016 approved, tax funded.
• ⁴ 2016 approved, tax funded.
• ⁵ 2016 approved, tax funded.
• ⁶ 2016 approved, tax funded.
• ⁷ 2016 approved, tax funded.
• ⁸ Derived: the book's "Other Service Partners & Grants" net $273,520 minus the $60,000 Physician Recruitment shown separately; the detail table shows the remainder is Tourism Barrie. With this and the airport line, the eight partner rows sum to $78,801,046 against the book's printed $78,801,045 grand total (rounding).
• ⁹ 2016 approved, tax funded; flat $60,000 every year in this series.

Sources: 2016 Business Plan — Executive Summary, City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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 to 2023 is the total minus the same table's Service Partners & Grants section net, so the partner lines are not counted twice. Executive Summary (2017 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2016 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ Derived: the recommended 2015 Total Tax Levy $200,683,768 minus the requested partner-section net $78,985,797.
• ² 2015 requested, net of the development-charge offset; the 2016 book records the 2015 approved as $47,419,084 — approved as requested.
• ³ 2015 requested: operating $20,009,598 plus capital $1,408,533, the latter the first County Capital Reserve transfer in the series.
• ⁴ 2015 requested; the 2016 book records the 2015 approved as $6,737,612 — $316,242 under this ask.
• ⁵ 2015 requested, net of provincial funding.
• ⁶ 2015 requested: Nottawasaga $280,345 plus Lake Simcoe Region $349,367, net of water-rate transfers.
• ⁷ 2015 requested.
• ⁸ 2015 requested. The nine partner lines sum to the printed $78,985,797 exactly.
• ⁹ 2015 requested — $110,000, the pre-2012 rate, restored for one year.

Source: Budget and Financial Overview — Tax Rate (2015 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. Retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ Derived: the 2014 approved Total Tax Levy $188,895,401 (the 2015 book's "Prior Year Tax Levy") minus the 2014 approved partner-section net $76,262,426.
• ² 2014 approved, net of the development-charge offset.
• ³ 2014 approved: operating $19,229,000 plus capital $994,721.
• ⁴ 2014 approved, net of reserve draws and development charges.
• ⁵ 2014 approved, net of provincial funding.
• ⁶ 2014 approved: Nottawasaga $272,536 plus Lake Simcoe Region $939,947, net of water-rate transfers.
• ⁷ 2014 approved.
• ⁸ 2014 approved. With physician recruitment, completes the partner set: the nine lines sum to the printed $76,262,426 exactly.
• ⁹ 2014 approved.

Source: Budget and Financial Overview — Tax Rate (2015 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. Retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ Derived: the 2013 levy $184,505,506 (the Fund Account Summary's tax-rate Property Taxes, read from the page image) minus the requested partner-section net $76,444,560.
• ² 2013 requested: gross $44,892,387 less the $10,360 development-charge offset. Approved as requested, and the actual matched.
• ³ 2013 requested: six component lines summed, less $195,421 of federal gas tax funding for land ambulance.
• ⁴ 2013 requested: gross $6,282,377 less a $241,321 reserve draw and $225,000 of development charges.
• ⁵ Tourism Barrie $198,059 and the GO Transit ($1,079,729) and airport ($477,806) debentures. With the other lines, the section sums to the printed $76,444,560 exactly.
• ⁶ 2013 requested, net of provincial funding.
• ⁷ 2013 requested, net of water-rate transfers.
• ⁸ 2013 requested.
• ⁹ 2013 requested.

Sources: Executive Summary (2013 Business Plan, §a), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. Service Partners & Grants (2013 Business Plan, §g), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ Derived: the 2012 levy $178,433,033 (the Fund Account Summary's tax-rate Property Taxes, read from the page image) minus the requested partner-section net $76,122,683.
• ² 2012 requested: gross $43,593,774 less the $10,058 development-charge offset; the board's covering letter states the same net figure.
• ³ 2012 requested, six component lines summed; Ontario Works steps down as the province begins absorbing ODSP.
• ⁴ 2012 requested: gross $5,991,674 less a $120,000 reserve draw and $224,893 of development charges, plus the $350,000 program-change transfer to the library reserve.
• ⁵ 2012 requested, net of provincial funding.
• ⁶ Tourism Barrie $191,590 and the GO Transit ($874,139) and airport ($245,000) debentures. With the other lines, the section sums to the printed $76,122,683 exactly.
• ⁷ 2012 requested, net of water-rate transfers.
• ⁸ 2012 requested.
• ⁹ 2012 requested as a $110,000 program change; the 2013 book records the approved figure as $60,000.

Sources: Business Plan Overview (2012 Business Plan, §3), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. Service Partners (2012 Business Plan, §10), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

• ¹ Derived: the 2011 levy $171,283,091 (the Fund Account Summary's tax-rate Property Taxes) minus the requested partner-section net $78,474,994.
• ² 2011 requested: gross $42,057,088 less the $20,116 development-charge offset.
• ³ 2011 requested, six component lines summed; includes the final year of Ontario Works at its pre-upload level.
• ⁴ 2011 requested: gross $5,824,752 less a $495,081 reserve draw and $236,212 of development charges.
• ⁵ Tourism Barrie $186,007, community grants $100,000, the GO Transit debenture $671,741, and a $3,300,000 transfer to the Royal Victoria Hospital reserve. With the other lines, the section sums to the printed $78,474,994 exactly.
• ⁶ 2011 requested, net of provincial funding.
• ⁷ 2011 requested, net of water- and wastewater-rate transfers.
• ⁸ 2011 requested.
• ⁹ 2011 requested — $110,000, the pre-2012 rate.

Sources: Fund Account Summary (2011 Business Plan), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. Service Partners (2011 Business Plan), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the 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. All retrieved August 18, 2026.

The approved rates

The rates Council actually set, by property class. A residential property pays 1.314503% to the City and 1.467503% once the Province's education rate is added. Across all classes the City collects $338,922,579 and the Province's education tax adds $66,599,287, for $405,521,866 in total.

Source: Appendix A to Staff Report CCS-010-2026 — 2026 tax rates by property class, City of Barrie — Legislative and Court Services, dated April 22, 2026. Original document. 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. Retrieved August 11, 2026.

The partner lines are not decoration — they are a third of the bill, and the City has limited ability to change them. The police line is the largest of them and has its own page: the police budget over time, including what council can and cannot legally do about it.