Barrie City Council, April 17, 2024
The mayor and the ten ward councillors meeting as council: where Barrie's decisions become final. The 13 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-066 | That Section "A" of the First General Committee Report dated April 10, 2024, now circulated, be received. 24-G-066 CONFIDENTIAL LABOUR RELATIONS MATTER - BPFFA NEGOTIATIONS | Carried |
| 24-G-067 | That Section "B" of the First General Committee Report dated April 10, 2024, now circulated, be adopted. 24-G-067 2024 BPFFA CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS | Carried |
| 24-G-078 | That motion 24-G-078 of Section “B” of the Second General Committee Report dated April 10, 2024 concerning a Request for Exemption from Sign By-law 2018-029 -201 Fairview Road (Ward 8) be separated an re-introduced as Section “H”. Upon the … | Carried |
| 24-G-079 | That Section "C" of the Second General Committee Report dated April 10, 2024, now circulated, be received. 24-G-079 PRESENTATION FROM THE WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY DEPARTMENT REGARDING WASTE COLLECTION CHANGES | Carried |
| 24-G-080 | That Section "D" of the Second General Committee Report dated April 10, 2024, now circulated, be received. 24-G-080 TEMPORARY USE BY -LAW TO PERMIT AGRICULTURE - 15 HARVIE ROAD (BARRIE-BRYNE DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED) (WARD 7) | Carried |
| 24-G-081 | That Section "D" of the Second General Committee Report dated April 10, 2024, now circulated, be adopted. 24-G-081 CITY-INITIATED ZONING BY -LAW AMENDMENT APPLICATION - 48 DEAN AVENUE (WARD 9) | Carried |
| 24-G-082 | That Section "F" of the Second General Committee Report dated April 10, 2024, now circulated, be adopted. 24-G-082 CITY INITIATED ZONING BY -LAW - 29 AND 35 SPERLING DRIVE (WARD 3) | Carried |
| 24-G-083 | That Section "G" of the Second General Committee Report dated April 10, 2024, now circulated, be received. 24-G-083 PEDESTRIAN CROSSING ANALYSIS - MAPLETON AVENUE AND HURST DRIVE (WARDS 6 AND 10) | Carried |
| 24-G-084 | That Section “H” of the Second General Committee Report dated April 10, 2024, concerning a Request for Exemption from Sign By -law 2018-029 - 201 Fairview Road be deferred to the next City Council meeting scheduled to be held on May 1, … | Carried |
| — | That the relationship be reviewed after a 4-year period to measure success based upon the economic objectives of the International Relations Committee. | Carried |
| 24-G-057, 24-G-060 | posal of garbage, organics, recyclables, and other waste materials and for operating and maintaining integrated Waste Management Facilities in the City of Barrie and to repeal By -law 2021-003, as amended. ( 24-G-057) (Waste Management By … | 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 2024-045 Bill #045 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to confirm the proceedings … | Carried unanimously |
| — | That the meeting be adjourned at 8:28 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.