Barrie City Council, March 26, 2025

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 13 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.

25-A-038

CORRESPONDENCE TO THE TOWNSHIP OF ORO MEDONTE CONCERNING NOTTAWASAGA VALLEY CONSERVATION AND LAKE SIMCOE REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY

The motion, as the minutes record it: Moved by: Councillor, G. Harvey Seconded by: Deputy Mayor R. Thomson That the City Clerk prepare correspondence to the Township of Oro-Medonte indicating that the City of Barrie has seen positive progress with the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) and is not prepared to support the amalgamation of the NVCA and the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA); and That a copy of this correspondence be circulated to the NVCA, LSRCA, affected municipalities and local MPPs. A point order was raised by Councillor, G. Harvey.

"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.

25-A-038: the vote, as recorded
Vote	Members, as the minutes record them
Yes (10)	Mayor, A. Nuttall · Councillor, C. Nixon · Councillor, AM. Kungl · Councillor, A. Courser · Deputy Mayor, R. Thomson · Councillor, N. Nigussie · Councillor, G. Harvey · Councillor, J. Harris · Councillor, S. Morales · Councillor B. Hamilton
No (1)	Councillor, C. Riepma
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, March 26, 2025
Item(s)	The motion, as the minutes record it	Outcome
—	That the list of applications for cancellation reduction or addition to taxes dated March 26, 2025, submitted by the Treasurer in the amount of $ 251.38, be approved.	Carried
25-G-032, 25-G-033, 25-G-034, 25-G-035, 25-G-036	That Section "A" of the General Committee Report dated March 19, 2025, now circulated be received. 25-G-032 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DATED FEBRUARY 26, 2025. Page 3City of Barrie March 26, 2025City Council Final 25-G-033 REPORT OF …	Carried
24-G-142, 25-G-037, 25-G-038, 25-G-039, 25-G-040, 25-G-041, 25-G-042, 25-G-043, 25-G-044, 25-G-045, 25-G-046, 25-G-047, 25-G-048, 25-G-049, 25-G-050, 25-G-051	That Section "B" of the General Committee Report dated March 19, 2025, now circulated be adopted. 25-G-037 WALKWAY WINTER MAINTENANCE PILOT 2026 BUDGET 25-G-038 TERMS OF REFERENCE 25-G-039 MOTION 24-G-142 REFERRED BY GENERAL COMMITTEE ON …	Carried
25-G-052	That Section "C" of the General Committee Report dated March 19, 2025, now circulated be adopted. 25-G-052 CAPITAL GRANTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING	Carried
25-G-053	That Section "D" of the General Committee Report dated March 19, 2025, now circulated be adopted. 25-G-053 2025 HOUSING COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN (CIP) PROGRAMS AND BUDGET Councillor, S. Morales declared a potential pecuniary interest in …	Carried
25-G-054	That Section "E" of the General Committee Report dated March 19, 2025, now circulated be adopted. 25-G-054 CITY INITIATED OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE PROVINCIAL PLANNING STATEMENT (2024)	Carried
25-G-055	That Section "F" of the General Committee Report dated March 19, 2025, now circulated be adopted. 25-G-055 DESIGN PRINCIPLES TO SUPPORT LIVABILITY, MUNICIPAL OPERATIONS AND ROAD SAFETY	Carried
—	That pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Procedural By -law 2019-100, permission be granted to introduce a motion without notice concerning a flagpole at the First Responders Campus.	Carried by two-thirds vote
—	That notwithstanding Procurement By -law 2024-075, staff in the Corporate Facilities Department retain a company to construct a flagpole up to 150 feet (42.75 metres) at the First Responders Campus by no later than July 1, 2025, with a …	Carried
—	That pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Procedural By -law 2019-100, permission be granted to introduce a motion without notice concerning correspondence to the Township of Oro Medonte concerning the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation and Lake …	Carried by two-thirds vote
12-G-190, 24-G-256, 25-G-051	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 2025-024 Bill #024 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie with respect to 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 2025-030 Bill #030 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to confirm the proceedings …	Carried unanimously
—	That the meeting be adjourned at 8:36 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.