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Barrie is a city in Central Ontario, Canada, about 90 kilometres (56 mi) north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay. Although it is physically in the county, Barrie is politically independent. The city is part of the extended urban area in southern Ontario known as the Greater Golden Horseshoe.
The council consists of the Mayor of Barrie and ten councillors, who represent the ten wards of the city. The council posts agendas for council meetings. There are four city departments: the Chief Administrators Office, the Community Operations Division, the Corporate Services Division, and the Infrastructure, Development & Culture Division.
The mayor of Barrie is head of the governing body of the Barrie City Council. The current mayor is Alex Nuttall . The following is a list of mayors and reeves of Barrie :
Barrie led all metropolitan areas east of Alberta in the rate of job creation from 2010 to 2014. Lehman launched a series of service reviews to modernize city services, and the City made the high-profile hirings of Carla Ladd as CAO of the City of Barrie in 2011 [5] and Kimberley Greenwood as Chief of Police in 2013. [6]
It was created in 2003 when its predecessor, Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, was redistributed. Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford consisted of the City of Barrie and the towns of Bradford West Gwillimbury and Innisfil. It had been formed in 1996 as Barrie—Simcoe from Simcoe Centre and York—Simcoe ridings, but its name was changed before an election ...
Rod Jackson (born c. 1970) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.He was elected to Barrie City Council in 2006 and served until 2010. [1] He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2011 to 2014 who represented the riding of Barrie.
Located within Sunnidale Park is the Dunsmore Ancestral Huron-Wendat Settlement. [6] The site was the location of a Huron-Wendat settlement in the fifteenth century.. From 1911 to the 1960s the land was used as a nine-hole golf course for the Barrie Golf Club, and later the Barrie Country Club.
The 2018 Barrie municipal election was held on October 22, 2018, to elect a Mayor and 10 city councillors of the city of Barrie, Ontario, Canada.School trustees of the English-language Simcoe County District and Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Boards and the French-language Conseil scolaire Viamonde and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir were also elected to represent the 10 wards ...