Barrie City Council, February 28, 2024
The mayor and the ten ward councillors meeting as council: where Barrie's decisions become final. The 9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 24-G-025 | That Section "A" of the First General Committee Report dated February 28, 2024, now circulated, be received. 24-G-025 CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL INFORMATION MATTER AND SOLICITOR-CLIENT PRIVILEGE MATTER | Carried |
| 24-G-026 | That Section "B" of the First General Committee Report dated February 28, 2024, now circulated, be received. 24-G-026 CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL INFORMATION MATTER CONCERNING AN IDENTIFIABLE INDIVIDUAL | Carried |
| 24-G-027 | That Section "C" of the First General Committee Report dated February 28, 2024, now circulated, be adopted. 24-G-027 PERSONAL INFORMATION MATTER AND SOLICITOR-CLIENT PRIVILEGE MATTER | Carried |
| — | That pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Procedural By -law 2019-100, permission be granted to introduce a motion without notice concerning the Master Plans for the revitalization of Wellington Street and Bayfield Street. | Carried by two-thirds vote |
| — | That any Provincial or Federal grant or funding received be allocated as appropriate to this project. | Carried |
| — | That pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Procedural By -law 2019-100, permission be granted to introduce a motion without notice concerning the extension of the Horsepower Sports and Entertainment Group Facility Use and Concessions Agreement - … | Carried by two-thirds vote |
| — | That existing facility use and concession agreements with the Horsepower Sports and Entertainment Group (owners of the Barrie Colts) for the use of Sadlon Arena be extended to April 30, 2024. | Carried |
| — | 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 2024-018 Bill #018 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to confirm the proceedings … | Carried unanimously |
| — | That the meeting be adjourned at 7:16 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.