City Council, January 30, 2017
The 11 motions this meeting decided, every one on a voice vote — outcomes on the record, no individual positions, transcribed from the City's own minutes.
How to read this table. Most council business passes on consent with no member-by-member vote in the minutes. When one appears is itself a recording practice that has changed with the City's minutes systems — routine in the era through 2019, usually on a member's request from 2020 on. So this is the complete set of votes the minutes record by name, not of positions taken — absence from this table is not absence of a position. The voice votes are in the record too: every motion outcome printed in every council meeting's minutes — 2,872 across 257 meetings, beside these 178 recorded votes — each listed on its meeting's page, always as an outcome and never as anyone's position, because a voice vote records none. The public record also has a hole: the City's meeting system lists no meetings at all between October 22, 2025 and January 20, 2026, so any recorded votes from that window are missing until the Clerk provides the minutes. Where the minutes print no outcome beside a vote, none is shown here.
Source: City of Barrie council minutes, 2013–present, as published on the City's public meeting system (pub-barrie.escribemeetings.com) and archived locally on 2026-08-09. Each row links to the minutes document it was transcribed from; names appear exactly as the minutes print them.
Decided on voice votes
A voice vote records an outcome and nobody's position. That is how council disposes of most business — the recorded votes above exist only where a member asked for one, and no member did at this meeting. The motions below are outcomes only; reading a member's view into any of them is reading beyond the record.
| Item(s) | The motion, as the minutes record it | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 17-G-013, 17-G-014, 17-G-015 | That Section "A" of the General Committee Report dated January 23, 2017, now circulated, be adopted. 17-G-013 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF ONTARIO AS REPRESENTED BY MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT AND CONSUMER … | Carried |
| 17-G-016 | That Section "B" of the General Committee Report dated January 23, 2017, now circulated, be received. 17-G-016 AN APPLICATION FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE ZONING BY -LAW - SUBMITTED BY GOODREID PLANNING GROUP ON BEHALF OF STEVE AND MARY … | Carried |
| 17-G-017 | That Section "C" of the General Committee Report dated January 23, 2017, now circulated, be received. 17-G-017 PRESENTATION REGARDING CANADA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | Carried |
| 17-G-018, 17-G-019 | That Section "D" of the General Committee Report dated January 23, 2017, now circulated, be adopted. 17-G-018 KEMPENFEST 2017 (WARDS 2 AND 8) 17-G-019 PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION AND CANADA’S 150TH INITIATIVE | Carried |
| 17-G-020 | That Section "E" of the General Committee Report dated January 23, 2017, now circulated, be adopted. 17-G-020 YEAR ROUND DOWNTOWN PUBLIC MARKET (WARD 2) | Carried |
| 17-G-021 | That Section "F" of the General Committee Report dated January 23, 2017, now circulated, be adopted. 17-G-021 APPOINTMENTS TO THE COUNCIL COMPENSATION REVIEW COMMITTEE | Carried |
| — | That pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Procedural By -law 2013-072 as amended, permission be granted to introduce a motion without notice concerning standing for election to the Board of Directors of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. | Carried by two-thirds vote |
| — | That the City of Barrie shall assume all costs associated with Mayor Jeff Lehman ’s attendance at FCM Board of Directors meetings and annual conference. | Carried |
| 16-G-191 | That leave be granted to introduce the following Bills and these Bills be read a first, second and third time this day and finally passed: BY-LAW 2017-005 Bill #005 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to establish Block 89 … | Carried unanimously |
| — | That leave be granted to introduce the following Bill and this Bill be read a first, second and third time this day and finally passed: BY-LAW 2017-007 Bill #007 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to confirm the proceedings … | Carried unanimously |
| — | That the meeting be adjourned at 7:37 p.m. | Carried |
Derivation: every motion outcome printed in this meeting's minutes that was not decided by a recorded vote, extracted mechanically from the archived minutes text — complete by construction, nobody chose which motions to show. Item numbers are those printed within each motion's block; a motion adopting a whole committee-report section lists the items that section carried. Motion text is the operative clause as printed, cropped for the table.