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City Council - Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 7pm

Writer's picture: Accountability TeamAccountability Team
Oct 19, 20246 min read

Updated: Oct 21, 2024

new directions (and deputations) on the Performing Arts Centre and Multi-Use Sportsfield, new members of the Communities in Bloom Committee


Meeting Location: Council Chambers



🧑‍⚖️🫅 Student Mayor(s)

  • Comments from outgoing Student Mayor Krista Marie Potestio Sina of St. Peters Catholic Secondary School



📜📜 Confirmation of the Minutes



🏆🏅 Awards and Recognitions


🥏🏅 Renee Foessel, Paralympic Athlete

  • Ms. Foessel won 6th place overall in discus throwing at this year's Paralympic games in Paris


⚽️🏆 2012 Boys Barrie Soccer Club

  • The team won the 2024 Target USA Cup


⚾️🏆 Barrie Baycats, 2024 Dominico Cup

  • The team won the 2024 Dominico Cup




📑🗂 Reports from Officers

  • Nil



🗣🎙 Deputations


🏖️🙋 Waterfront Public Consultation Feedback



💸⚖️ Tax Applications

  • Nil



📝📄 General Committee Report


Section A (Reports to be Received)


🚸🚨 Community Safety Committee


🏛️🫂 Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee



Section B (Consent Agenda)

💰🧐 Budget Expenditure Approval to Hire Consultant

  • That a budget of up to $125,000 be approved for the Community Safety and Well-Being Advisory Committee to hire a consultant to support the review and any revisions to the Community Safety and Well-Being Plan

➕👥 Additional Memberships

  • That the composition of the Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Advisory Committee be amended to add member representatives from the County of Simcoe (Social Housing, Emergency Shelters and Homelessness Prevention Programming) and from the Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle [we question why these groups weren't included in the initial committee representatives?]

🏟️♟️ Sports Tourism Strategy

🌳🚜 Parks, Horticulture and Forestry Service Level Review

🅿️⏳ Parking on Coronation Parkway and Prince William Way (Ward 10)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13340425&GUID=921A1AEC-AF5F-4E51-AFD4-8758301352DE 

  • Remove "No Parking 8am-5pm Monday to Friday, September 1st to July 1st" from the north side of Coronation Parkway (124m west of Prince William Way to 93m west)

  • Remove "10 minutes between the hours of 8-9am and 10 minutes between 3-4pm" from the west side of Prince William Way (57m north of Coronation Parkway to 130m south of Sandringham Drive)

  • Add "10 minutes between 8-9am and 10 minutes between 3-4pm" to the west side of Prince William Way (57m north of Coronation Parkway to Sandringham Drive)

🚸🚶 Pedestrian Crossing Analysis - Blake Street at Huron Street and Rodney Street (Ward 1)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13340474&GUID=3BDAD175-639B-49C8-B9C8-0EA7AEDEF940 

  • Install a Pedestrian Crossover (Level 2 Type B) on the west leg of Blake Street and Huron Street, approved for the 2025 capital plan, with a budget of $150,000 funded 60% from Development Charges reserves and 40% Tax Capital Reserve

  • Install a Pedestrian Crossover (Level 2 Type B) on the west leg of Blake Street and Rodney Street, approved for the 2025 capital plan, with a budget of $150,000 funded 60% from Development Charges reserves and 40% Tax Capital Reserve

💰📊 Business Plan Status as at June 30, 2024

🎭🎶 Barrie Performing Arts and Event Centre

🦹🏡 Property Acquisition - Whiskey Creek Culvert and Channel Improvements, The Boulevard to Brennan Avenue (Ward 8)

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13339883&GUID=54A9B554-25C0-4B29-A54D-D7251DD7FE7A 

  • Begin expropriation proceedings for the property necessary to facilitate the construction of the Whiskey Creek Culvert and Channel Improvements, The Boulevard to Brennan Avenue (part of 199 The Boulevard and full of 7 Brennan Ave.)

  • City asks Council for approval to expropriate the properties, and have the City Clerk execute the necessary forms

  • Serve and publish notice of application for approval to expropriate, and forward any inquiries to the Ontario Land Tribunal

  • Authorize the Director of Legal Services to settle the expropriations or any related negotiated agreements


Section C

🤐👥 Confidential Personal Information Matter - Committee Appointment - Communities in Bloom Committee

  • Appoint Yasemin Balaban, Natalie Shammas and Tyneisha Thomas to the Communities in Bloom Committee, term to expire November 14, 2026

  • Amend the Committee's Terms of Reference by adding the words "up to" at the beginning of "six (6) citizen representatives"

  • Amend the Committee Appointment Bylaw to include the citizen member identified in the staff report


Section D

🏖️🙋 Waterfront Public Consultation Feedback

  • Report:  https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13356831&GUID=E83CD586-F830-4121-9345-53AC79D9C47B

    • The report shows overwhelming public agreement with the proposals outlined in Marshall Green's report

  • Receive the report

  • Notwithstanding the previous Council decisions re: the locations for a Performing Arts Centre and a Multi-Use Sports Field, do the following:

    • Consider recommended location for Performing Arts Centre

      • Retain Hariri Pontarini Architects (HPA) - who created the final report (above) on the Performing Arts Centre Programming and Concept Design - to complete a schematic design for a new Performing Arts Centre at the current Sea Cadets site at an estimated cost of $200,000, funded from the Theatre Reserve, with the following considerations:

        • an approximately 45,000 sq.ft facility that includes both larger (600 seat) and smaller (250 seat) performance spaces

        • a maximum total building cost of $65M in hard and soft construction costs for the building itself, including fit out of all seating and audio-visual components

      • Direct staff to undertake required site due diligence (including geotechnical investigations, etc.) to determine the feasibility of using the current Sea Cadets site and any required surrounding City lands for a new Performing Arts Centre, to a maximum cost of $375,000, funded from the Theatre Reserve

      • Corporate Facilities to immediately retain a full-time Capital Project Manager to coordinate the site due diligence investigations and schematic design work, funded from the Performing Arts Centre Redevelopment Capital Project / Theatre Reserve

      • Staff to report back to General Committee with results of the due diligence work and schematic design, as well as the estimated required site works and a potential implementation plan

    • Retain a consultant at an estimated cost of $250,000 with 30% of funding from Development Charges and 20% from the Tax Capital Reserve, and half sourced from the Cash-in-Lieu Parkland Reserve to prepare a design concept and costing to locate a Multi-Use Sports Field at the Central Secondary School site to ensure that the field meets the minimum size requirements to accommodate a sports field of this nature and minimize impacts to the surrounding area and report back to General Committee

    • Remove the Sea Cadets Parade Ground as one of the uses for the proposed Multi-Use Sports Field, and direct staff to provide a concept including costs for locating a drill square with hard surface to the west of the John Hayter Southshore Centre as an extension to the parking lot and report back to General Committee

    • Development Services to prepare a design concept to locate a passive park east of the General John Hayter Southshore Community Centre to include a minimum of 2 acres of grass cut area, to allow for overflow parking for historical events that will occur on the property and accessible walkways through the naturalized area and report back to General Committee with the concept and costing. (Note that the wording is "minimum", which means they could potentially raze more than that area of the natural site for event parking. Two acres is also significantly more than what is currently required for Kempenfest's overflow parking.)



⏸️⏯️ Deferred Business

  • Nil



➡️📜 Direct Motions

  • Nil



🧑‍🏫📑 Presentations

  • Nil



📜📜 Bylaws


Bill 090 - Assume Streets, Stage 2 of Bear Creek Ridge Subdivision


Bill 114 - Confirmation Bylaw














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