City Council, December 11, 2024
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. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 24-G-253 | That Section "A" of the General Committee Report dated December 4, 2024, now circulated be received. 24-G-253 REPORT OF THE FINANCE AND RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE DATED NOVEMBER 27, 2024. | Carried |
| 24-G-254, 24-G-255 | That Section "B" of the General Committee Report dated December 4, 2024, now circulated be adopted. 24-G-254 RESERVE FUND - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE 24-G-255 COMMUNITY PROJECT FUND SUBMISSION FROM COUNCILLOR, G . HARVEY REGARDING … | Carried |
| 24-G-223, 24-G-256 | That Capital Project EN 1564 - Waterfront Multipurpose Youth Artificial Sports Field (page 79 of the Capital Plan) be deleted with the identified funds being transferred to a new Capital Project entitled “Downtown Barrie Sports Field and … | Carried |
| 24-G-257 | That Section "D" of the General Committee Report dated December 4, 2024, now circulated be received. 24-G-257 REPORT OF THE AFFORDABILITY COMMITTEE DATED NOVEMBER 27, 2024 | Carried |
| 24-G-258 | That Section "A" of the General Committee Report dated December 11, 2024, be received. 24-G-258 REPORT OF THE AFFORDABILITY COMMITTEE DATED DECEMBER 4, 2024 | Carried |
| 24-G-259, 24-G-260, 24-G-261 | That Section "B" of the General Committee Report dated December 11, 2024, be adopted. 24-G-259 DOORS OPEN BARRIE 24-G-260 PROPOSED OR PENDING DISPOSITION OF LAND MATTER - SURPLUS PROPERTY 24-G-261 WATERFRONT PROPERTY ACQUISITION (WARDS 1 … | Carried |
| 24-G-262 | That Section "C" of the General Committee Report dated December 11, 2024, be adopted. 24-G-262 PROPOSED OR PENDING DISPOSITION OF LAND MATTER - SURPLUS PROPERTY | Carried |
| — | he meeting identified by the Provincial Land Facilitator to negotiate an update to the City of Barrie ’s border with neighbouring municipalities and staff report back on January 8, 2025 with the scope of work to proceed with Stage 3 to … | Carried |
| — | That as part of the report back, staff verify the developable industrial land needs identified by Hemson. | Carried |
| — | That as part of the report back, staff verify the developable industrial land needs identified by Hemson. CARRIED Upon question of the original motion moved by Deputy Mayor, R. Thomson and seconded by Councillor, G. Harvey the matter was … | Carried |
| 13-G-316, 24-G-240 | 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 2024-138 Bill #138 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to amend By -law … | 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 2024-141 Bill #141 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to confirm the proceedings … | Carried |
| — | That the meeting be adjourned at 9:27 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.