Full agenda greets Barrie councillors on Wednesday, Jan. 29
One other Wednesday means one other heavy agenda for Barrie councillors.
It’s scheduled to start at 6:15 p.m. tonight with a gathering of the town’s infrastructure and group funding committee.
Being thought of is a movement to approve a brand new $2.6-million challenge to decommission the Bayview Park reservoir and full the elimination of its related booster pumping station at Sam Cancilla Park, and fund it from the town’s water capital reserve. (BarrieToday can have extra protection on this challenge later as we speak.)
The reservoir and pumping station have been faraway from operation 20 years in the past and this infrastructure just isn’t required to be related to the consuming water system sooner or later, in line with metropolis workers.
Metropolis council is scheduled to start its assembly at 7 p.m.
First comes recognition of the Maple Ridge senior ladies basketball crew for successful the 2024 Ontario Federation of College Athletic Associations (OFSAA) ladies’ AAA basketball championship.
Michael Speers and Kaitlin Baldwin will then make deputations to council concerning the 2025 Barrie police finances.
This 12 months’s $72.24-million police finances is a $4.72 million or 6.99 per cent enhance from final 12 months.
Barrie police spending is 22.58 per cent of the town’s 2025 working finances.
Council will subsequent take into account an interim settlement with the Sea Cadets for the usage of workplace area on the Common John Hayter Southshore Group Centre, at no cost. The settlement might additionally embrace provisions for rental charges and parking for the usage of Southshore Centre in line with different person teams, such because the Barrie Rotary Membership.
An addition to Southshore Centre is to finally be the brand new residence of the Sea Cadets/Navy League.
Council can even take into account altering the town’s procedural bylaw so as to add a provision that consultants, builders, and so forth., should present any council and committee shows in particular person, except licensed by the town clerk in session with the mayor and/or chair of the committee.
And, in a course of that began final 12 months, council will take into account passing its 2025 working and capital finances, which units property taxes and repair ranges in Barrie.
Town portion of the working finances was permitted in December. It pays for greater than 60 metropolis providers corresponding to firefighting, snow clearing, highway repairs, rubbish pick-up, transit, parks and recreation, together with water remedy.
Council will likely be contemplating remaining approval Wednesday of the service associate budgets for Barrie police, the County of Simcoe, the Barrie Public Library, the Simcoe Muskoka District Well being Unit and the conservation authorities, who’re asking for a mixed $7.3 million extra this 12 months than in 2024.
The county offers Barrie with providers that embrace paramedics, homelessness prevention, long-term care beds, non-profit social housing, Ontario Works, kids’s providers, Simcoe County Housing Company, group providers and social housing.
Council can even take into account a movement to have metropolis workers put together guidelines for the licensing of companies working motorized actions alongside the waterfront, together with a restrict on the automobiles permitted, charges and security measures for his or her operation. Workers would then report again. The movement would additionally rescind a earlier council’s choice to not permit operators to offer motorized actions on Barrie’s waterfront.
A memo from Michelle Banfield, the town’s govt director of growth providers, relating to an replace for 175 and 199 Essa Rd. and 50 Wooden St., may very well be referred by council to the affordability committee assembly scheduled for March 19, 2025.
Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Paul Calandra has mentioned the rezoning wanted to construct greater than 4,000 residences on the previous Barrie fairgrounds property needs to be determined by the town, not the province, and addressed by the municipal planning course of.
Proposed there are 4,054 whole residences in 13 highrise buildings, 15 to twenty storeys in peak, 211 townhouses, business areas, a college block and out of doors amenity areas.
Council will hear a presentation by Empower Simcoe, which helps people with mental disabilities, by providing early childhood packages to group residing and complete housing assist.
The Wednesday, Jan. 29 metropolis council assembly is scheduled to be held within the Council Chambers at Barrie Metropolis Corridor. It’s open to the general public and out there on-line.
