Four things to know about the last five years

More Jobs | Smarter Growth

Improved Transparency | Safer Community

Five things to know about for the year ahead

MusicCo | MergeCo | Collaborate Barrie

Lake Simcoe Regional Airport | Built Form Taskforce

1 MusicCo

1 MusicCo

2 MergeCo

Two major components:

• Three-way merger between PowerStream, Enersource, & Horizon

• Joint acquisition of Hydro One Brampton

Would create:

• 2nd largest regulated electricity distribution utility in Ontario by number of customers (nearly 1M)

• 3rd largest by regulated asset value

2 MergeCo

3 Collaborate Barrie

A made-in-Barrie approach to collaborative, risk-driven community safety and well-being. • joint project amongst community partners

to address those facing the highest need

• addressing issues at the front-end to see dividends down the road

• using existing & combined resources + investments in a new way to: • break down silos • increase efficiencies • mobilize responses within 24–48 hours

Barrie Police ServiceYouth HavenParamedics - Health LinksAdult ProbationDavid Busby CentreCatulpaHuronia West OPPCentre ColibriYMCA

ORIGINATING AGENCIES

3 Collaborate Barrie

PLUS: Probation & Parole (Adult/Youth) | CAS (Simcoe-Muskoka) Simcoe County Paramedics | Independent Living Society | Ontario Works

4 Lake Simcoe Regional Airport

4 Lake Simcoe Regional Airport

5 Built Form Taskforce

5 Built Form Taskforce

Residential Average Price, Barrie & District

Three slides about our future

Source: Infrastructure Planning Branch, Engineering Department, City of Barrie

150 Years of Weather Data for Barrie

Building the Economy, Cutting Debt, and Fighting the Infrastructure Deficit

Budget 2015: Infrastructure Renewal Fund

Entrepreneurial Community

Source: Financial Post / Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 2015 “Canada’s Most Entrepreneurial Cities”