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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
|
| Fire & Emergency Services |
$423 |
- 24/7 availability
- 9,000+ calls for service achieving a travel time under 6 minutes 90% of the time.
|
| 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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