Barrie City Council, December 13, 2023
The mayor and the ten ward councillors meeting as council: where Barrie's decisions become final. The 8 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.
The practice of recording votes by name
has changed: such votes were routine through 2019, and from 2020 on usually appear only when a
member asks for one. This table is every vote the minutes record by name. A member's absence
from it says nothing about their position. The voice votes are in the record too:
the minutes print 3,038 motion outcomes across
269 meetings, beside these 188 recorded votes. Each is listed on its
meeting's page as an outcome only, because a voice vote records no one's position. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| — | That the application for Cancellation, Reduction, or Addition to Taxes dated December 13, 2023, in the amount of $16,727.00, be approved. | Carried |
| 23-G-282 | That the First General Committee Report dated December 13, 2023, be received. 23-G-282 CONFIDENTIAL ACQUISITION OF POTENTIAL PROPERTY MATTER - DOWNTOWN BARRIE | Carried |
| 23-G-283, 23-G-284 | That Section "A" of the Second General Committee Report dated December 13, 2023, be received. 23-G-283 REPORT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COMMITTEE DATED NOVEMBER 29, 2023 23-G-284 REPORT OF THE FINANCE AND RESPONSIBLE … | Carried |
| 23-G-285, 23-G-286 | That Section "B" of the Second General Committee Report dated December 13, 2023, be adopted. 23-G-285 LOCAL SERVICE GUIDELINES UPDATE (APPENDIX H IN DEVELOPMENT CHARGES BY-LAW) 23-G-286 ART AND WATER CULTURAL GROUP PARTNERSHIP (WARD 2) | Carried |
| — | That the Mayor and CAO be directed to request a meeting with both the Federal and Provincial Ministers of Environment to discuss phosphorus reduction initiatives.” | Carried |
| 05-G-475 | 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 2023-179 Bill #182 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to amend By -law … | 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 2023-181 Bill #184 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to confirm the proceedings … | Carried unanimously |
| — | That the meeting be adjourned at 8:39 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.