In accordance with the City’s Procedural By-law, the Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Committee is an advisory committee authorized by City Council. The Committee reports to City Council through the Community Safety Committee.
Mandate
To review the City of Barrie’s 2021–2024 Community Safety and Well-being Plan: Our Shared Plan for a Safer Barrie and provide advice to City Council on any potential revisions to the Plan as well as reporting on the Plan.
Objectives
- To review the current risk factors identified in the 2021–2024 Community Safety and Well-Being Plan and identify any revisions to the risk factors in the municipality, including, without limitation, systemic discrimination and other social factors that contribute to crime, victimization, addiction, drug overdose and suicide and any other risk factors prescribed by the Minister;
- To review and identify any revisions related to which risk factors the municipality will treat as a priority to reduce;
- To review and identify any revisions related to strategies to reduce the prioritized risk factors, including providing new services, changing existing services, improving the integration of existing services or coordinating existing services in a different way;
- To review and identify any revisions related to measurable outcomes that the strategies are intended to produce;
- To address any other issues that may be prescribed by the Minister; and
- To produce a Plan that contains any other information that may be prescribed by the Minister.
Committee Members
- Mayor Nuttall and Councillor Kungl
- A person who represents Ontario Health or an entity that provides services to improve the physical or mental health of individuals in the community
- Two persons who represent two different entities that provide educational services in the municipality
- A person who represents an entity that provides community or social services in the municipality
- A person who represents represent an entity that provides community or social services to children or youth in the municipality
- A person who represents an entity that provides custodial services to children or youth in the municipality
- A representative from the Barrie Police Service Board
- The Chief of Barrie Police Service or designate
- A representative of Safe Barrie
- A representative from the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Meetings
The committee generally meets monthly in person. Agendas are available on the City’s Legislative Portal. Please contact the Clerk's Office at CityClerks@barrie.ca with any questions regarding agendas. Effective February 2023, advisory committee meetings are no longer streamed via the City's YouTube channel.
Once a plan is approved, Community Safety and Well-being Plan Committee meetings may be scheduled semi-annually at the call of the Chair to report on the status of the Plan.