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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 |
|---|
Fire & Emergency Service
| $425
| - 24/7 availability
- Less than 6 minutes travel time in 90% of incidents (2020)
- 3,500+
fire inspections (2020)
- 21,250
emergency calls processed (2020)
- Response to 7,453 emergency incidents (2020)
|
Barrie Police
(service partner) | $894
| - 24/7 emergency response and proactive community policing with evidence-based, technology-supported initiatives such as body-worn cameras
- Action on 68,460 calls for service per year (average; 2018-2020)
- Dedicated Traffic Services, Crime Prevention, Marine Unit, and Courthouse Security
- Complex investigations handled by specialized units including Crimes Against Persons, Human Trafficking, Tech Crimes, Homicide, Drugs, Missing Persons
- Support the implementation of the City of Barrie's Community Safety and Well Being Plan including proactively addressing social and/or criminal issues
- Training Unit delivers 15,000+ training hours for members per year
|
Libraries
(service partner)
| $139
| - Two
library locations (expanding to three in Spring 2022)
- 63,000+ hours of public PC use
- 26,500+ wireless network sessions
- Access to
LinkedIn Learning and other databases and online learning tools
- In-depth reference assistance for 9,000+ questions annually
- 150+ online programs each month across all ages
-
575,000+ annual visits
- 1.1 million+ books, ebooks, audiobooks, online magazines, and streaming music and videos
|
|
Roads & Traffic Operations | $281
| -
Maintenance of 1579 km of roads, 617 km of
sidewalks and 20,000+ signs (including winter control, road resurfacing, pothole repairs, street sweeping, etc.)
- Maintenance of 103 km of watercourse, 405 km of storm mains, 98
storm ponds, and
BCRY Railway operations on 35 km of track
|
|
Transit | $211
| - Daily
operation and maintenance of a 46-bus conventional fleet
- 17
specialized transit buses for persons with mobility difficulties
- Service provided 7 days a week through a private contractor
- Daily maintenance of approximately 700 bus stops
- Transit ON Demand service
|
Recreation & Culture
| $162
| |
Economic & Creative Development
| $33
| - Programs that support: arts & culture, business retention and expansion,
business attraction, talent attraction, and retention and tourism development, growing industrial clusters
-
Site selection services
- Deployment of provincially funded programs aimed at starting and growing
small business in the community
|
|
Parks & Forestry | $116
| - Care of 35,000 City-owned
street trees, 2,100+ acres of City-owned forest, and 825 acres of tree-lined
parks
- Inspection & maintenance of 150 km+ of trails, boardwalks, and footbridges in 1,713 acres of natural areas
- Inspection & maintenance of all equipment and play areas at 121 playgrounds,
splash pads, and outdoor exercise equipment
- Maintenance of 2,035 acres of parkland, including
sports fields,
dog off-leash areas,
disc golf, and passive use areas
- Maintenance of horticulture displays located in the City’s parks, Arboretum and downtown
|
Solid Waste Operations
| $102
| |
| Development Services | $26
| |
* Numbers based on the 2022 Budget & typical Barrie home assessed at $362,740. |
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