Barrie City Council, January 31, 2024

The mayor and the ten ward councillors meeting as council: where Barrie's decisions become final. The 1 recorded vote taken at this meeting, every member by name, and the 7 motions decided on voice votes, transcribed from the City's own minutes.

The City's record of this meeting: the minutes as a web page · the minutes as a PDF. A copy of the document text is archived with this site, taken August 9, 2026, so these votes stay checkable if the City's links move.

24-G-009

of the General Committee Report dated January 24, 2024, be amended in paragraph 7 b) to have the Barrie Public Library Board present to the Community Safety Committee instead of the Finance and Responsible Governance Committee. WITHDRAWN

The motion, as the minutes record it: Upon the question of adoption of the original motion, moved by Deputy Mayor, R. Thomson and seconded by Councillor, A. Courser, the motion was CARRIED.

"Yes" is a vote to carry that motion; "No" is a vote against it.

Where the motion adopts a report section "as circulated", the vote covers everything in that section, this item included.

24-G-009: the vote, as recorded
Vote	Members, as the minutes record them
Yes (11)	Councillor, C. Riepma · Councillor, C. Nixon · Councillor, A.M. Kungl · Councillor, A. Courser · Deputy Mayor, R. Thomson · Councillor, N. Nigussie · Councillor, G. Harvey · Councillor, J. Harris · Councillor, S. Morales · Councillor, B. Hamilton · Mayor, A. Nuttall
No (0)	—
Outcome	CARRIED

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.

All recorded votes.

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. The motions below are outcomes only; reading a member's view into any of them is reading beyond the record.

Voice-vote outcomes, City Council, January 31, 2024
Item(s)	The motion, as the minutes record it	Outcome
24-G-006	That the General Committee Report dated January 17, 2024, now circulated, be received. 24-G-006 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION EXPLICITLY SUPPLIED IN CONFIDENCE TO THE MUNICIPALITY OR LOCAL BOARD BY CANADA, A PROVINCE OR TERRITORY OR A CROWN …	Carried
24-G-007	That Section "A" of the General Committee Report dated January 24, 2024, now circulated, be received. 24-G-007 REPORT OF THE AFFORDABILITY COMMITTEE DATED JANUARY 17, 2024	Carried
24-G-008	That Section "B" of the General Committee Report dated January 24, 2024, now circulated, be adopted. 24-G-008 FUNDING REQUESTS: EMERGENCY RETAINING WALL RECONSTRUCTION AND ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN UPDATE	Carried
24-G-010	That motion 24-G-010 of the General Committee Report dated January 24, 2024, be amended in paragraph 2 b) to have the Barrie Police Chief provide a presentation to the Finance and Responsible Governance Committee.	Lost
12-G-190, 22-G-157, 24-A-008	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 2024-008 Bill #008 A By -law of The Corporation of The City of Barrie to expropriate the …	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 2024-016 Bill #016 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.