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Where Your Money Goes
Every day your tax dollars provide programs and services to improve the quality of life for you and your family — here's how.
Value for Money
In a typical day residents will use or witness most City services being provided, such as
water,
curbside collection,
roads,
traffic signals, street lights,
libraries,
parks,
police, fire &
snow removal, just to name a few.
Here are some of the major services residents rely on and the total annual amount paid per home* for each:
| Service | Amount | What You Get |
|---|
Barrie Police
(service partner) | $850 | - 24/7 availability
- 237 police officers
- 62,000+ calls for service
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Fire & Emergency Services | $423 | - 24/7 availability
- 9,000+ calls for service achieving a travel time under 6 minutes 90% of the time.
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Roads Operations | $262 | - Maintenance & snow cleared from 1,500+ km of roads, & 690+ km of sidewalks
- Power to 11,700 street lights & 246 traffic lights
- Maintenance & operation of 677 km of storm
sewers, 106 km of watercourses, 20 km of culverts & 89 storm ponds
- 8,900 service requests annually
|
|
Transit | $207 | - 2.7 million annual transit trips
- 194,000 transit vehicle in-service hours
|
Libraries
(service partner) | $127 | - Two library locations
- 6,600 annual service hours
- 460,000 annual visits
|
|
Recreation | $130 | |
|
Environmental Services | $118 | - Over 40,000 households receive
curbside collection: bi-weekly garbage collection, weekly organics, blue & grey box collection.
|
|
Parks & Forestry | $106 | - Care of 35,000 City-owned
street trees, 2,100+ acres of City-owned forest and 816 acres of tree-lined
parks
- Inspection & maintenance of 146 km of public
trails
- Inspection & maintenance of all equipment and play areas at 120 playgrounds
|
|
Creative Economy | $41 | - Supported over 120 entrepreneurs through 5 startup programs.
- Hosted annual Celebrate Barrie, Canada Day
and Winterfest events, with expanded
programming attracting more than 120,000 people
|
County of Simcoe
(service partner) | $293 | - Paramedic services ($100)
- Long-Term Care ($15)
- Social Housing ($111)
- Ontario Works ($48)
- Children & Community Services ($38)
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* Numbers based on the 2019 Budget & typical Barrie home assessed at $336,000. |
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