changes to Official Plan, proposed Administrative Penalty Program Bylaw, Ontario's physician shortage, Civic Holiday services
Circulation List: https://barrie.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1207173&GUID=D3708594-90AA-4025-B8EA-73903E915C51&Options=info|&Search=
📑📊 Staff Memos
🗺️🏙️ Final Approval of City's Official Plan 2051
Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199166&GUID=324D08BF-7246-40C8-8E25-DC50C9E42FB4 from C. Kitsemetry, Supervisor of Growth Management
An update on changes to the Planning Act that impacted the City's new Official Plan, and details of the modifications required
The final version of the Official Plan is at https://www.barrie.ca/government-news/adopted-strategies-plans/official-plan
🏎️📸 Administrative Penalty Program - Bylaw
Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199167&GUID=2FD8114E-6797-4382-9FF3-8AC0E782864F from W. Cooke, City Clerk / Director of Legislative and Court Services
Bylaw: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199168&GUID=D06992FE-E29C-43E6-94BC-4A2F7C8F21DD
Proposed new bylaw on administrative penalties for infractions related to the Automated Speed Enforcement camera systems in community safety zones - provided in advance of the August 14 Council Agenda
🍻🍷 Liquor Licence Application Review - Sunset Grill, 509 Bayfield Street
Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199177&GUID=85164508-7C71-4464-ADB3-5582850D94E9 from T. McArthur, Coordinator of Elections and Special Projects
Anyone who has concerns with this application may email cityclerks@barrie.ca
👥📃 Committee Agendas
Nil
✍️📨 Correspondence
🚒☀️ Hot Summer Night
Media Release, July 30: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199169&GUID=9AFD1181-EB8B-478D-A2F4-4E57B6D230AE
Barrie Fire hosts a free Hot Summer Night at Sunnidale Park on Thursday, August 1 from 6-8pm
🚰🏭 Schreiber's Water Treatment Plant
Correspondence from Township of Schreiber, July 18: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199170&GUID=CBE8CA9A-66C7-4B99-922E-AA8F45534880
Seeking a meeting with the Province to discuss costs of meeting updated legislation
🩺🆘 Ontario Physician Shortage
Correspondence from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) and the Ontario Medical Association: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199172&GUID=C083DEEB-4DFA-4A7F-B640-494751898F04
Providing a draft council resolution to municipalities, urging the Province to recognize the physician shortage and highlighting the urgent need for more healthcare resources and support
🌳🪚 Supporting Ontario's Forest Sector
Correspondence from the Ontario Forest Industries Association, June 19: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199173&GUID=E19D39DF-8739-461E-B6C2-D14C378AE762
Calling on the Province to take immediate action to support Ontario's Forest Sector, which currently faces an unprecedented challenge
🥌🏆 Everest Curling Club Championships
Correspondence from the Barrie Curling Club, July 23: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199174&GUID=F42EEF54-3D93-4C55-9E02-B60534007FB8
Requesting Council to waive the rental fee for the South Shore Community Centre and provide free parking passes to all attendees of the Everest Curling Club Championships
⚾️🏆 National Slo-Pitch Championships
Media Release, July 31: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199175&GUID=5C591A85-F1CD-4FF1-99AC-790AFF288087 "City of Barrie welcomes the 2024 National Slo-Pitch Championships"
These championships will be held August 2-5 at the Barrie Community Sports Complex
📆ℹ️ Civic Holiday - Affected Services
Media Release, August 1: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13199176&GUID=8C1C577E-247D-4D01-AE43-AB273B982E55 "Civic Holiday affected services"
⏳➕ Late Additions
✍️📨 Correspondence
Barrie is Canada's Safest City
Media Release, August 1: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13202503&GUID=1E83A5AF-9376-413B-B6F9-ADA6ADF38864
This headline is slightly misleading, and is referring to only one factor in the Statistics Canada Police-Reported Crime Statistics report. Yes, Barrie ranked the lowest (of the Census metropolitain areas, NOT all cities) on the Crime Severity Index for 2023, although the city's CSI rating rose by two points from 2022. The Crime Rate Index was not as favourable, having increased by 6 points, and putting the city in 7th place (again, of only the Census metropolitain areas, not all cities).
Considering how often the mayor and certain members of council justify their anti-homelessness motions by portraying downtown Barrie as a cesspool of crime at the hands of homeless people, it is refreshing to see them publicly acknowledge that Barrie is a safe city.
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