Barrie City Council, August 13, 2025
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 25-G-184, 25-G-185, 25-G-186 | That Section "A" of the General Committee Report dated August 13, 2025, be received. 25-G-184 REPORT OF THE COMMUNITY SAFETY COMMITTEE DATED JUNE 11, 2025 25-G-185 REPORT OF THE AFFORDABILITY COMMITTEE DATED JUNE 18, 2025 25-G-186 REPORT … | Carried |
| 25-G-187, 25-G-188, 25-G-189, 25-G-190, 25-G-191, 25-G-192, 25-G-193, 25-G-194, 25-G-195 | That Section "B" of the General Committee Report dated August 13, 2025, be adopted. 25-G-187 GROVE STREET EAST AND JOHNSON STREET SIGNALIZATION (WARD 1) 25-G-188 MUNICIPAL HERITAGE REGISTER - 105 SUNNIDALE ROAD 25-G-189 ZONING BY-LAW … | Carried |
| 25-G-196 | That Section "C" of the General Committee Report dated August 13, 2025, be adopted. 25-G-196 OFFICIAL PLAN AMENDMENT AND ZONING BY -LAW AMENDMENT APPLICATIONS - 70 AND 76 - 80 EDGEHILL DRIVE (WARD 4) | Carried |
| 25-G-197 | That Section "D" of the General Committee Report dated August 13, 2025, be adopted. 25-G-197 DEVELOPMENT CHARGE (DC) DEFERRAL POLICY FINAL | Carried |
| 25-G-198 | That Section "E" of the General Committee Report dated August 13, 2025, be adopted. 25-G-198 WASTE MANAGEMENT BY -LAW - UPDATE TO ALIGN WITH WASTE COLLECTION CHANGES | Carried |
| 25-G-042 | That further to motion 25-G-042 requesting staff to investigate the feasibility of installing red light cameras, staff in Development Services and Legislative and Court Services Departments be authorized to sign any non -disclosure … | Carried |
| 25-A-076 | change the normal retirement age under the OMERS Primary Pension Plan (“Primary Plan ”) and the Retirement Compensation Arrangement for the OMERS Primary Pension Plan (“RCA”) in respect of a class of firefighter employees of 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 2025-094 Bill #094 A By -law of The Corporation of the City of Barrie to confirm the proceedings … | Carried unanimously |
| — | That the meeting be adjourned at 7:48 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.