The police budget

The Barrie Police Service budget has grown from a $42 million request in 2011 to a $78.4 million request for 2026 — nearly doubling in fifteen years. The figures below are what the service asked for — from its own budget documents where retrieved (2021 on), and from the City's budget books before that — not always what Council approved.

Millions of dollars; the table below is the exact record. Bars are requests, not approvals — the series notes mark where the two differ, and each year-over-year percentage compares a request with the previous year's request, not with what Council approved (which is why 2026 shows +9.8% here while the City's book, comparing against the 2025 approved budget, states 8.53%). Shaded bands mark who held the mayor's chair in the years shown (a marker of period, not cause); each band's percentage is the ask's compound annual growth across that mayor's years shown.

What does the police budget pay for?

Salaries and benefits Everything else

Gross spending in each year's budget, before the grants, recoveries and fees that bring it down to the funding request charted above. Salaries and benefits include overtime. Requested budgets except 2020 (the approved budget). In most years the documents print no gross total, so the total and "everything else" are sums of their printed lines; the year-by-year table further down says how each year was read.

Salaries and benefits were between 85.4% and 87.8% of budgeted gross spending in every year shown (this site's arithmetic from the year-by-year rows): most of what a police budget increase pays for is wages, benefits and the number of people employed.

Averaged out, the requests grew 4.2% per year from 2011 to 2026, and 6.5% per year over the last five years (2021 to 2026) — compound annual growth rates between the endpoints, so single-year swings do not move them. The figures are nominal dollars: no adjustment for inflation or for the city's population growth over the same years.

How this is counted. These are the amounts the police service asked the City to fund — requests, not necessarily what Council approved. 2021 through 2025 are from the service's own budget documents; 2011 through 2020 are the tax-funded request figures of the City's budget books (no police budget deck from those years has been retrieved), and 2026 is from the City's Service Partners book. The 2011–2014 books print gross requests with the development-charge offset as a separate line, so those years are netted here, with both figures in the year's note; the 2012–2014 books are scanned documents and every digit was verified against the page image. Where the approved amount is known to differ it is noted on the year (2025: the request was $71,430,985; the City's 2026 budget book records the 2025 approved budget as $72,240,720). This is Barrie Police Service’s definition.

Barrie Police Service budget — municipal funding requested, City of Barrie
Period	Amount requested
2011¹ measure changed	$42,036,972
2012² measure changed	$43,583,716
2013³ measure changed	$44,882,027
2014⁴ measure changed	$46,021,600
2015⁵ measure changed	$47,419,084
2016⁶ measure changed	$49,025,297
2017⁷ measure changed	$50,375,113
2018⁸ measure changed	$51,814,867
2019⁹ measure changed	$53,259,517
2020¹⁰ measure changed	$56,066,858
2021¹¹ measure changed	$57,292,783
2022	$58,945,250
2023	$63,238,813
2024¹² measure changed	$67,523,320
2025¹³ measure changed	$71,430,985
2026¹⁴ measure changed	$78,404,405

¹ Net of the $20,116 development-charge offset the book lists as a separate revenue line (gross request $42,057,088) — the pre-2015 books print no per-partner net row. The 2012 book records the 2011 approved budget as $41,657,088 gross, $400,116 under this ask. The 2013 book records the 2011 ACTUAL as $41,686,401 gross. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
² Net of the $10,058 development-charge offset (gross request $43,593,774); the police board's covering letter states the same net figure. The 2013 book records the 2012 approved budget as $43,353,774 gross — about $230,000 under this ask. The 2014 book records the 2012 ACTUAL as $43,362,036 gross. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³ Net of the $10,360 development-charge offset (gross request $44,892,387). Approved as requested, per the 2014 book's comparator column; the 2015 book records the 2013 ACTUAL as $44,892,387 — identical. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴ Net of the $70,400 development-charge offset (gross request $46,092,000). The 2015 book records the 2014 approved budget as $46,303,600 net — $281,900 ABOVE this ask — and the 2016 book records the 2014 ACTUAL as $46,374,000. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁵ The book's own Tax Impact row (gross request $47,489,484 less the $70,400 development-charge offset). Approved as requested, per the 2016 book's comparator column; the 2017 book records the 2015 ACTUAL as $47,419,084 tax funded — identical. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁶ The 2016 book's "Tax Impact" request row (gross request $49,113,297 less development charges). The 2017 book records the 2016 approved budget as $48,814,251. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁷ The 2018 book records the 2017 approved budget as $50,275,113 — $100,000 under the request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁸ Approved as requested, per the 2019 book's comparator column. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁹ The 2020 book records the 2019 approved budget as $53,329,646 — $70,129 above the request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹⁰ The 2021 book records the 2020 approved budget as $55,811,858 — $255,000 under the request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹¹ First year sourced from the service's own budget deck rather than the City's budget book; the book's request column shows the same figure. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹² The 2026 Service Partners book's "2024 Actuals" column shows the 2024 actual tax-funded amount as $67,523,320 — identical to this request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹³ The deck states this request excludes additional revenue from assessment growth; the City's 2026 budget book records the 2025 approved budget as $72,240,720. The service's 2025 annual report puts the 2025 actual at $73,216,007 against that budget — $975,286 over, driven by salaries and benefits. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹⁴ From the City's Service Partners book rather than a police budget deck: the 2026 requested budget, tax funded, an increase of $6,163,685 (8.53%) over the 2025 approved $72,240,720. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.

Sources: Service Partners (2011 Business Plan), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Real text layer. Its Base Budget Change Report carries 2009 ACTUAL expenditures — the oldest actuals recoverable; no 2009 or 2010 book survives on the Wayback Machine. The gross request rows carry the development-charge offsets as separate revenue lines, unlike the 2015+ books' printed Tax Impact rows. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Service Partners (2012 Business Plan, §10), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF, no text layer; the extracted file is OCR and every published digit was verified against the page image. Carries 2010 actuals. The police board's covering letter states the net 2012 request ($43,583,716) — the table's gross minus the DC offset, corroborating both figures. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Service Partners & Grants (2013 Business Plan, §g), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF, no text layer; the extracted file is OCR and every published digit was verified against the page image. Carries 2011 actuals. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Service Partners (2014 Business Plan, §5), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF, no text layer; the extracted file is OCR and every published digit was verified against the page image. Carries 2012 actuals. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Budget and Financial Overview — Tax Rate (2015 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Real text layer. The first year whose book prints a per-partner net Tax Impact table beside the gross one. Carries 2013 actuals. Retrieved August 18, 2026. 2016 Business Plan — Executive Summary, City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget, not approved. "TOTAL RECOMMENDED TAX OPERATING BUDGET" net figure (PDF p27) includes Service Partners for this and every year through 2023 -- unlike the 2024 book onward, where the same-named row excludes them. The site therefore never charts this printed total directly: the city-operations figure for 2016 to 2023 is the total minus the same table's Service Partners & Grants section net, so the partner lines are not counted twice. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Executive Summary (2017 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2016 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Executive Summary (2018 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2017 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Budget and Financial Overview (2019 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2018 APPROVED Service Partner amounts. The Divisional Tax Operating subtotal is printed as a blank header band in this book -- no 2019 divisional requested figure exists. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Budget and Financial Overview (2020 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Requested/recommended budget. Its comparator column carries the 2019 APPROVED Service Partner amounts, with one exception. Its County of Simcoe detail table is a stale copy of the 2019 book's, down to the same "$1,923,00" typo, so it is not used for the 2019 approved County figure. The summary table's 2019 County net of $18,473,000 leaves out the County Capital Reserve contribution, so it is on a narrower basis than the site's Total - Tax Funded figures. The 2019 County row uses the 2021 book's "2019 Actuals" column instead. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Barrie Police Service 2021 Budget Summary, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Municipal funding required $57,292,783, a 2.65% increase over the 2020 $55,811,857. Retrieved August 9, 2026. Barrie Police Service 2022 Budget (summary, dated 2021-10-08), Barrie Police Service, dated October 8, 2021. Original document. Municipal funding required $58,945,250, a 2.88% increase over the 2021 $57,292,783. Retrieved August 9, 2026. Barrie Police Service 2023 Budget (presented to City of Barrie Council, February 1, 2023), Barrie Police Service, dated February 1, 2023. Original document. Municipal funding required $63,238,813 — operating $57,619,268, transfer to capital reserve $1,882,107, legislative impacts $3,737,438 — "a 7.28% increase over 2022". Retrieved August 9, 2026. Barrie Police Service 2024 Budget (for Open Board Meeting, October 19, 2023), Barrie Police Service, dated October 19, 2023. Original document. Total 2024 budget request $67,523,320 (6.90%): non-discretionary 7.27%, discretionary −0.37%; growth-adjusted 4.79%. Retrieved August 9, 2026. Barrie Police Service 2025 Budget (for Board Meeting, September 12, 2024), Barrie Police Service, dated September 12, 2024. Original document. Total 2025 budget request $71,430,985, a 5.79% increase; the deck notes the request does not include additional revenue from assessment growth. Retrieved August 9, 2026. Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2026, City of Barrie. Original document. Covers the Barrie Police Service, County of Simcoe, library and other partner budgets as presented to the City. Retrieved August 9, 2026.

What did the police service actually spend?

Salaries, wages and benefits Everything else

What the service actually spent, as the City reported it to the Province (Financial Information Return, Schedule 40, police line), on the accounting basis: it includes the wear on police buildings, vehicles and equipment (amortization) and a share of City overhead, and leaves out court security. Not the same measure as the budget split above, so the two are drawn separately. The 2023 jump in salaries and benefits ($79.8 million, against $59 million in 2022 and $66.9 million in 2024) is an accounting change, explained in the next paragraph.

Salaries, wages and benefits were between 79.8% and 87.1% of actual police spending in these years (this site's arithmetic). The budget page sets police against everything else the City spent.

Why 2023 stands out: an accounting change, not a pay jump. The police service is self-insured for workers' compensation, and on this accounting basis a change in the estimated cost of future WSIB claims is booked as a benefit expense in the year it is made. In 2023 the police board changed actuaries, and the new valuation method raised the WSIB liability. The board's own audited 2023 statements put the "Increase in employee future benefits liabilities" at $22.1 million, against $4.9 million in 2022, while salaries and wages rose from $43.6 million to $46.5 million. Its finance manager told the board's audit sub-committee the increase was "not driven by increased activity in 2023 and rather the change in methodology from the third-party actuary valuation". The City's own WSIB liability rose from $18.4 million to $42.2 million that year for the same reason. (The board's statements total salaries and benefits slightly differently from the City's return to the Province, so the two 2023 figures are not identical.)

Sources: Financial Information Return, Schedule 40 (Consolidated Statement of Operations: Expenses), City of Barrie, 2010 to 2025, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (as filed by the City of Barrie), dated June 15, 2026. Original document. The Province's open-data files fir_data_2010.zip to fir_data_2025.zip, Barrie rows (MUNID 43042). Function totals are column 11, "Total Expenses After Adjustments", of each subtotal line: 0299 general government, 0499 protection (0410 fire, 0420 police), 0699 transportation, 0899 environmental, 1099 health, 1299 social and family, 1499 social housing, 1699 recreation and culture, 1899 planning and development; 9910 is the total. Police salaries are line 0420, column 1. 2025 is the City's return as last updated on June 15, 2026; earlier years can be revised by later filings. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Board agenda package, May 23, 2024: 2023 year-end audit and financial statements, Barrie Police Service Board, dated May 23, 2024. Original document. The board's audited 2023 statements: salaries and benefits $83,794,778 (2022: $62,530,395), of which the "Increase in employee future benefits liabilities" was $22,058,747 (2022: $4,857,952) and salaries and wages $46,462,308 (2022: $43,554,654). The auditor (Deloitte) notes the board changed actuaries and revised the WSIB liability methodology; the finance manager told the audit sub-committee the increase was "not driven by increased activity in 2023 and rather the change in methodology from the third-party actuary valuation". Retrieved October 8, 2026. Consolidated financial statements, 2018 to 2025 (audited), City of Barrie. Original document. Dividends received from Barrie Hydro Holdings Inc. (BHHI), from the cash-flow statement, and the note on BHHI: it held 8.78% of Alectra in 2017 and 2018 and 8.37% from 2019; the City holds 100% of BHHI; the $20 million Alectra promissory note matured May 31, 2024. One statement per year; the earlier years are at barrie.ca/media/1124 (2018), /media/1495 (2019), /media/989 (2020), /media/3715 (2021), /media/11129 (2022), /media/12460 (2023) and /media/14164 (2024). Retrieved October 7, 2026.

How this is counted. What the police service actually spent each year, audited, as the City reported it to the Province in the Financial Information Return (Schedule 40, the "Police" line). This is the full-accrual (PSAB) basis. The total includes amortization of police buildings, vehicles and equipment ($1.6 million in 2010, $5.3 million in 2025), interest on debt, and a share of City corporate overhead. It is gross spending, before grants, fees and recoveries. These are NOT the same measure as the budget requests on this page, which are on the tax-levy basis and fund capital directly instead of counting amortization: do not compare the two lines year for year. Salaries, wages and employee benefits is the FIR's own column. "Everything else" is this site's subtraction (total minus salaries, wages and benefits): materials, contracted services, rents, interest, amortization and the overhead allocation. Court security (a separate FIR line since 2012, $3.5-5.0 million a year) is not included. This is Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (Financial Information Return)’s definition.

Barrie Police Service actual spending — salaries and benefits vs everything else, City of Barrie
Period	Breakdown	Actual expenses
2010	Everything else	$6,550,344
2010	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$34,916,285
2010	Total	$41,466,629
2011	Everything else	$7,847,289
2011	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$37,781,650
2011	Total	$45,628,939
2012	Everything else	$7,928,378
2012	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$38,568,793
2012¹ measure changed	Total	$46,497,171
2013	Everything else	$7,585,367
2013	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$39,701,269
2013	Total	$47,286,636
2014	Everything else	$7,506,156
2014	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$42,323,596
2014	Total	$49,829,752
2015	Everything else	$7,711,436
2015	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$43,871,514
2015	Total	$51,582,950
2016	Everything else	$7,468,076
2016	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$47,229,712
2016	Total	$54,697,788
2017	Everything else	$7,994,442
2017	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$49,018,916
2017	Total	$57,013,358
2018	Everything else	$8,242,220
2018	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$50,549,409
2018	Total	$58,791,629
2019	Everything else	$8,456,101
2019	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$57,208,608
2019	Total	$65,664,709
2020	Everything else	$10,863,735
2020	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$57,009,368
2020² measure changed	Total	$67,873,103
2021	Everything else	$10,665,651
2021	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$65,761,514
2021	Total	$76,427,165
2022	Everything else	$13,789,004
2022	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$59,020,261
2022³ measure changed	Total	$72,809,265
2023	Everything else	$12,583,490
2023	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$79,824,014
2023⁴ measure changed	Total	$92,407,504
2024	Everything else	$13,922,026
2024	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$66,870,584
2024⁵ measure changed	Total	$80,792,610
2025	Everything else	$15,896,524
2025	Salaries, wages and employee benefits	$62,609,533
2025	Total	$78,506,057

¹ Court security is filed on its own line (0421) from 2012 ($3,531,759) and is not in this series. Barrie filed no court-security line for 2010-2011; whether those costs sat inside the police line is not established. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
² From 2020 to 2022 about $1.1-1.3 million a year was moved into police from fire as an inter-functional adjustment (Schedule 40 line 0420, column 12: $1,230,757 / $1,117,989 / $1,255,468); none before or after. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³ Amortization on this line rises from $1,768,176 (2021) to $4,636,445 (2022), the year the City stopped leaving program-support amortization in general government. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴ The fire-to-police inter-functional adjustment ends. Salaries, wages and benefits are $79,824,014 in 2023, against $59,020,261 (2022) and $66,870,584 (2024); the cause has not been established. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁵ The allocation of City program support to police falls from $1,716,081 (2023) to $237,904 (2024) (column 13). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.

Source: Financial Information Return, Schedule 40 (Consolidated Statement of Operations: Expenses), City of Barrie, 2010 to 2025, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing (as filed by the City of Barrie), dated June 15, 2026. Original document. The Province's open-data files fir_data_2010.zip to fir_data_2025.zip, Barrie rows (MUNID 43042). Function totals are column 11, "Total Expenses After Adjustments", of each subtotal line: 0299 general government, 0499 protection (0410 fire, 0420 police), 0699 transportation, 0899 environmental, 1099 health, 1299 social and family, 1499 social housing, 1699 recreation and culture, 1899 planning and development; 9910 is the total. Police salaries are line 0420, column 1. 2025 is the City's return as last updated on June 15, 2026; earlier years can be revised by later filings. Retrieved October 8, 2026.

The gross spending split, year by year

How this is counted. What the police service planned to SPEND in each year's budget, before the grants, recoveries and fees that bring it down to the municipal funding request. It is split into salaries and benefits (including overtime and, for 2020-2024, the Supporting Ontario's First Responders Act salaries-and-benefits line the service listed under "legislative impacts") and everything else: operating costs, facilities, the Police Services Board, capital and reserve transfers. Gross minus revenues equals the service's own municipal-funding figure in every year shown, to the dollar; where it differs from the request series above, the difference is a development-charge offset the City's books net separately, or the 2020 basis, and the year's note says which. In most years the service prints no gross total, so the total and the "other" figure are sums of its printed lines. These are requested budgets except 2020, which is the approved budget. 2011-2019 are read from scans of the City's budget books, checked against the page images. This is Barrie Police Service’s definition.

Barrie Police Service budget — gross expenditure, salaries and benefits vs other, City of Barrie
Period	Breakdown	Budgeted gross expenditure
2011¹ measure changed	Other expenditures	$6,382,553
2011² measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$37,280,857
2011³ measure changed	Total	$43,663,410
2012⁴ measure changed	Other expenditures	$6,106,090
2012⁵ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$39,168,937
2012⁶ measure changed	Total	$45,275,027
2013⁷ measure changed	Other expenditures	$6,229,581
2013⁸ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$40,547,761
2013⁹ measure changed	Total	$46,777,342
2014¹⁰ measure changed	Other expenditures	$6,860,487
2014¹¹ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$41,992,022
2014¹² measure changed	Total	$48,852,509
2015¹³ measure changed	Other expenditures	$7,007,057
2015¹⁴ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$43,888,877
2015¹⁵ measure changed	Total	$50,895,934
2016¹⁶ measure changed	Other expenditures	$7,199,526
2016¹⁷ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$45,733,393
2016¹⁸ measure changed	Total	$52,932,919
2017¹⁹ measure changed	Other expenditures	$7,201,424
2017²⁰ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$47,452,207
2017²¹ measure changed	Total	$54,653,631
2018²² measure changed	Other expenditures	$7,032,872
2018²³ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$49,947,884
2018²⁴ measure changed	Total	$56,980,756
2019²⁵ measure changed	Other expenditures	$7,247,564
2019²⁶ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$52,069,920
2019²⁷ measure changed	Total	$59,317,484
2020²⁸ measure changed	Other expenditures	$7,954,665
2020²⁹ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$53,847,546
2020³⁰ measure changed	Total	$61,802,211
2021³¹ measure changed	Other expenditures	$8,025,760
2021³² measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$55,217,043
2021³³ measure changed	Total	$63,242,803
2022³⁴ measure changed	Other expenditures	$9,033,002
2022³⁵ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$55,559,145
2022³⁶ measure changed	Total	$64,592,147
2023³⁷ measure changed	Other expenditures	$9,941,451
2023³⁸ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$60,224,805
2023³⁹ measure changed	Total	$70,166,256
2024⁴⁰ measure changed	Other expenditures	$10,617,254
2024⁴¹ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$64,251,880
2024⁴² measure changed	Total	$74,869,134
2025⁴³ measure changed	Other expenditures	$11,260,175
2025⁴⁴ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$69,031,853
2025⁴⁵ measure changed	Total	$80,292,028
2026⁴⁶ measure changed	Other expenditures	$11,221,493
2026⁴⁷ measure changed	Salaries and benefits	$73,926,728
2026⁴⁸ measure changed	Total	$85,148,221

¹ Derived. Police Services Board 65,806 + other expenditures 5,074,288 (incl. capital 1,168,552) + building 1,242,460 = 6,382,554; the p370 summary prints TOTAL OTHER 6,382,552. $1-2 rounding in the source. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
² Overtime included. The p370 summary table prints 37,280,856 (rounding). Read from the page image: the PDF text layer misreads it as 37,280,858. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³ Revenues (1,606,321) include the $20,116 DC funding; MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED printed $42,057,089 here, 42,057,088 on p370 and in the City summary. The existing series nets the DC offset a second time (42,036,972), hence the +20,117 difference. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴ Derived. Board 50,486 + other expenditures 4,864,065 (incl. capital 695,177) + building 1,191,540 = 6,106,091 ($1 rounding in source). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁵ Overtime included. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁶ Gross minus TOTAL REVENUE, GRANTS, RECOVERIES (1,691,311) = MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED $43,583,716 exactly, the same as the existing request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁷ Derived. Board 45,486 + operating 4,062,104 + capital 741,569 + building 1,380,423 = 6,229,582 ($1 rounding). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁸ Includes $220,000 paid-duty salaries (offset by paid-duty recoveries in revenue) and overtime. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁹ Revenues (1,885,003); MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED $44,892,339. The existing series is the City book figure net of a $10,360 DC offset (44,882,027). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹⁰ Derived. From 2014 the table moves capital below TOTAL NET EXPENDITURES, so it is added back to keep capital in gross as in 2011-2013. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹¹ Overtime included. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹² Derived total (two printed lines summed). Minus revenues (2,760,510) = 46,091,999 vs printed MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED $46,092,000 ($1 rounding). The existing series nets a $70,400 DC offset (46,021,600). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹³ Derived. Capital added back as for 2014. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹⁴ Overtime included. The 2015 annual report prints the same component figures under a "2015 Actual" heading, so that table appears to show the budget. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹⁵ Derived total. Minus revenues (3,406,450) = $47,489,484 = printed MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED. The existing series is the City Tax Impact row, net of a $70,400 DC offset. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹⁶ Derived. Board 87,594 + operating 4,220,718 + buildings 1,416,694 + capital 1,474,520 = 7,199,526. Capital sits below TOTAL NET EXPENDITURES and is added back, as for 2014-2015. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹⁷ Overtime included (printed TOTAL SALARIES & BENEFITS). The $37,500 RIDE grant overtime line sits under operating expenditures and stays in "other", as in 2015. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹⁸ Printed TOTAL EXPENDITURES 51,458,399 + capital 1,474,520. Minus revenues (3,819,622) = $49,113,297 = printed MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED. The existing series is the City Tax Impact row, net of an $88,000 DC offset (49,025,297). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
¹⁹ Sum of printed lines. Board 66,692 + operating 3,974,446 + buildings 1,437,654 + TOTAL CAPITAL BUDGET 1,722,632. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²⁰ Printed "Total Salaries, Benefits and Overtime". From 2017 the service submits a summary table only, with no line items. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²¹ Derived total. Minus "Grants, Secondments and General Revenue" (4,278,519) = 50,375,112 vs printed MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED 50,375,113 ($1 rounding), the same as the existing request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²² Sum of printed lines. Board 97,842 + operating 4,032,989 + buildings 1,453,088 + TOTAL CAPITAL BUDGET 1,448,953. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²³ Printed "Total Salaries, Benefits and Overtime". No separate First Responders Act line this year; the 2019 book restates 2018 with one (1,109,177). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²⁴ Derived total. Minus "Grants, Secondments and General Revenue" (5,165,888) = 51,814,868 vs printed MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED 51,814,867 ($1 rounding), the same as the existing request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²⁵ Sum of printed lines. Board 111,563 + operating 4,166,636 + buildings 1,417,105 + Child and Youth Advocacy Centre contribution 90,000 + TOTAL CAPITAL BUDGET 1,462,260. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²⁶ Salaries, benefits and overtime 50,402,547 + the Workplace Safety Insurance - First Responders Act line under Legislative Impacts 1,667,373 (salaries 985,010, benefits 305,202, contract replacements 377,161). The 2020 book labels that 1,667,373 "Salaries and Benefits - Supporting Ontario's First Responders Act". Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²⁷ Derived total. Minus "Grants, Secondments and General Revenue" (6,057,967) = $53,259,517 = printed MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED, exactly the existing request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²⁸ Sum of printed lines. Transfer to WSIB Reserve was nil in 2020 (the deck shows it only for 2021). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
²⁹ APPROVED 2020 budget (the 2021 deck's comparator), not the request: no 2020 request split has been retrieved. Includes the SOFRA salaries-and-benefits line from Legislative Impacts. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³⁰ Gross minus TOTAL REVENUE (5,990,354) = MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED 55,811,857. The 2020 annual report prints TOTAL EXPENDITURES $61,802,212 for 2020 ($1 off). The existing row is the request ($56,066,858), so the -255,001 difference is the request-vs-approved gap. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³¹ Sum of printed lines. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³² Includes overtime and the SOFRA salaries-and-benefits line from Legislative Impacts. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³³ Gross minus TOTAL REVENUE 5,950,020 = MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED 57,292,783, exactly the existing request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³⁴ Sum of printed lines. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³⁵ Includes overtime and the SOFRA salaries-and-benefits line. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³⁶ Gross minus "Grants, Secondments and Other Revenue (5,646,897)" = MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED 58,945,250, exactly the existing request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³⁷ Sum of printed figures. Operating Expenditures includes facilities. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³⁸ Excludes the Board ($47,118) that the deck folds into its $56,589,056. Includes SOFRA. The 2024 book restates 2023 as S&B 57,348,005 + SOFRA 2,913,792 = 60,261,797. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
³⁹ Gross minus Revenue $6,927,443 = $63,238,813, exactly the existing request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴⁰ Sum of printed lines. Capital includes the Radio System Upgrade (200,000). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴¹ The service's 2024 deck (bps-2024-budget) gives no dollar split. This table, from the City book, carries the same $67,523,320 request. Includes SOFRA. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴² Gross minus "Grants, Secondments and Other Revenue (7,345,814)" = 67,523,320, exactly the existing request. The 2024 annual report's in-year budget column (S&B 61,127,419; total expenditures 72,033,155 excl. capital) is a re-cut and is not used. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴³ Sum of printed lines. The "Transfer from Operating Reserve (588,000)" funding draw is left out of gross and treated with revenues. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴⁴ From 2025 there is no separate SOFRA line; WSIB costs run through S&B and a WSIB reserve transfer. Request as submitted to the City in December 2024 ($72,240,720), not the September 2024 board deck's $71,430,985, which has no dollar split. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴⁵ Gross minus "Grants, Secondments and Other Revenue (7,463,307)" minus the operating-reserve draw 588,000 = 72,240,721 vs printed MUNICIPAL FUNDING REQUIRED 72,240,720 ($1 rounding). The difference from the existing row (+809,736) is the deck-vs-book request gap: the City book's request equals the later approved $72,240,720. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴⁶ Sum of printed lines. Transfer from Operating Reserve is nil for 2026. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴⁷ The book's infographic (p.258) shows "SALARIES & BENEFITS $71,919,607", $2,007,121 below the table. The table line is used. The table's Benefits +/- cell (864,156) is a carry-over error (actual change 1,477,985). Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.
⁴⁸ Gross minus "Grants, Secondments and Other Revenue (6,743,816)" = 78,404,405, exactly the existing request. Figures on either side of this point are not directly comparable.

Sources: Service Partners (2011 Business Plan), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Real text layer. Its Base Budget Change Report carries 2009 ACTUAL expenditures — the oldest actuals recoverable; no 2009 or 2010 book survives on the Wayback Machine. The gross request rows carry the development-charge offsets as separate revenue lines, unlike the 2015+ books' printed Tax Impact rows. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Service Partners (2012 Business Plan, §10), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF, no text layer; the extracted file is OCR and every published digit was verified against the page image. Carries 2010 actuals. The police board's covering letter states the net 2012 request ($43,583,716) — the table's gross minus the DC offset, corroborating both figures. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Service Partners & Grants (2013 Business Plan, §g), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF, no text layer; the extracted file is OCR and every published digit was verified against the page image. Carries 2011 actuals. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Service Partners (2014 Business Plan, §5), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF, no text layer; the extracted file is OCR and every published digit was verified against the page image. Carries 2012 actuals. Retrieved August 18, 2026. Service Partner Budget Support (2015 Business Plan, pp. 239-259), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF with no text layer. The extract is OCR, and every published digit was checked against the page image. The police board requested $47,489,484 (board approval November 25, 2014). Printed pp. 243-244 carry the service's 2015 operating budget by line: total salaries and benefits $43,888,877, total expenditures $49,533,869, capital $1,362,065 below the net line. The local copy (research/pdf/2015-Budget-Service-Partner-Support.pdf) is matched to this URL by its printed page range, not by hash. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Service Partner Budget Support (2016 Business Plan, pp. 223-243), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF with no text layer. The extract is OCR, and every published digit was checked against the page image. Printed pp. 227-228 carry the service's 2016 operating budget by line: total salaries and benefits $45,733,393, total expenditures $51,458,399, capital $1,474,520 below the net line, municipal funding required $49,113,297. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Service Partner Budget Support (2017 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Police pages are scans with no text layer. The extract is OCR, and every published digit was checked against the page image. The service's "2017 BUDGET" summary table is the second PDF page, which carries no printed page number (it follows printed p. 235). Municipal funding required $50,375,113. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Service Partner Budget Support (2018 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF; the police pages have no text layer. The extract is OCR, and every published digit was checked against the page image. Printed p. 249 is the service's "2018 BUDGET" summary table. Municipal funding required $51,814,867. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Service Partner Budget Support (2019 budget), City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Scanned Xerox PDF; the police pages have no text layer. The extract is OCR, and every published digit was checked against the page image. Printed p. 241 is the service's "2019 BUDGET" summary table, the first with a Legislative Impacts section (First Responders Act, $1,667,373). Municipal funding required $53,259,517. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Barrie Police Service 2021 Budget Summary, Barrie Police Service. Original document. Municipal funding required $57,292,783, a 2.65% increase over the 2020 $55,811,857. Retrieved August 9, 2026. Barrie Police Service 2022 Budget (summary, dated 2021-10-08), Barrie Police Service, dated October 8, 2021. Original document. Municipal funding required $58,945,250, a 2.88% increase over the 2021 $57,292,783. Retrieved August 9, 2026. Barrie Police Service 2023 Budget (presented to City of Barrie Council, February 1, 2023), Barrie Police Service, dated February 1, 2023. Original document. Municipal funding required $63,238,813 — operating $57,619,268, transfer to capital reserve $1,882,107, legislative impacts $3,737,438 — "a 7.28% increase over 2022". Retrieved August 9, 2026. Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2024, City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Internet Archive capture; the per-partner tax-funded requests, printed page 283 ("SERVICE PARTNERS & GRANTS - Base Budget Change Report"). Requested figures, not approved. Local copy in the site's research files. Printed p.290 carries the police service's 2024 budget by line (dated 2023/11/21); same $67,523,320 request as the service's deck. Retrieved August 17, 2026. Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2025, City of Barrie. The publisher's own copy is gone; this links to the Internet Archive. Internet Archive capture; the per-partner tax-funded requests, printed page 301 ("SERVICE PARTNERS & GRANTS - Base Budget Change Report"). Requested figures, not approved. Local copy in the site's research files. Printed p.308 carries the police service's 2025 budget by line (dated 2024/12/04), municipal funding required $72,240,720, $809,735 above the board deck's September 2024 $71,430,985. Retrieved August 17, 2026. Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2026, City of Barrie. Original document. Covers the Barrie Police Service, County of Simcoe, library and other partner budgets as presented to the City. Retrieved August 9, 2026.

The 2026 request, as the service itself breaks it down

The board presentation of October 16, 2025 decomposes the 2026 ask: 4.43% for "Foundational Policing" and 1.45% for a "Growing and Changing Community" make a 5.88% base, and a recommended growth plan of six sworn officers and four civilians adds 1.34% — a request the deck totals at 7.22%, with "Provincial Impacts" of 2.65% shown as a separate line. The City's budget book records the same request as an 8.53% increase over the 2025 approved budget. The deck does not state the base for its 7.22%, so this page reports both figures and reconciles neither.

Sources: Barrie Police Service 2026 Budget — Presentation for Board, October 16, 2025, Barrie Police Service, dated October 16, 2025. Original document. A slide deck with a thin text layer, transcribed by eye on August 9, 2026. The 2026 consolidation slide: Foundational Policing 4.43% plus Growing and Changing Community 1.45% makes a base budget of 5.88%; the Recommended Growth Plan (6 sworn, 4 civilian) adds 1.34%, for a "Barrie Police Budget Request 7.22%". Provincial Impacts of 2.65% are shown on a separate line. The deck does not say what its percentages are measured against. The City's Service Partners book records the same request as an 8.53% increase over the approved 2025 budget. The deck also carries sworn strength (250 from 2023 to 2025, planned to reach 280 by 2030) and the service's own population projections. Service Partners Budget and Financial Overview 2026, City of Barrie. Original document. Covers the Barrie Police Service, County of Simcoe, library and other partner budgets as presented to the City. All retrieved August 9, 2026.

What council can — and cannot — do about it

This is the most misstated fact in every Barrie police-budget argument, in both directions. The Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019 settles it, in section 50:

The police service board submits operating and capital estimates to the City (s. 50(2)).
Council sets the board's overall budget, and is not bound to adopt the board's estimates (s. 50(4)). Council can approve less than the ask.
Council has no authority to approve or disapprove specific items in those estimates (s. 50(5)). There is no line-by-line veto.
If the board believes the budget Council set is insufficient for adequate and effective policing, it can force conciliation and then binding arbitration, and the City must amend the budget to match the arbitrator's decision (s. 50(6)–(12)).

So a candidate who says council simply controls the police budget is overstating it, and a candidate who says council can do nothing is understating it: council's lever is the total, and behind every total is the possibility of arbitration.

Source: Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019, S.O. 2019, c. 1, Sched. 1, Government of Ontario — e-Laws. Original document. Section 50 sets what Council can and cannot do with the police budget. Council sets the board's overall budget and is not bound to adopt the board's estimates (s. 50(4)), but has no authority to approve or disapprove specific items (s. 50(5)). If the board finds the budget insufficient, the two may jointly seek a conciliation officer, or the board may refer the matter to arbitration, and Council must amend the budget to follow the arbitrator's decision (s. 50(6) to (12)). Retrieved August 9, 2026.

The police line sits inside the wider property-tax budget: see where your property taxes go.

Common questions

What is Barrie's police budget?

The Barrie Police Service's budget request grew from a $42 million request in 2011 to a $78.4 million request for 2026 — the full year-by-year series is charted on this page. Every figure is a request, not an approval, unless the row's note says otherwise.

Does Barrie city council control the police budget?

Council approves or rejects the police board's budget as a total — it cannot line-item it. What a councillor can actually do is set out in provincial law; see safety and policing.