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ONTARIO — The Ontario City Council faced a heavy agenda during its work session on June 3, and will meet on Tuesday. Among those items discussed included contract renewal with the firm charged with finding grant money for the city, potential changes to city council meeting days and revisited the civil penalties issue. Contract renewal The Ontario City Council voted to approve the renewal of the contract with Merchant McIntyre & Associates to utilize their services. The company is an agency specializing in federal government relations, and according to its website, performs “competitive and discretionary grant funding” among other services. The city has used Merchant McIntyre’s services for the past year at a cost of $6,500 for 12 months bringing the total cost spent to $78,000 in order to secure grant funds for the city. To date, Ontario has received over $173,800 in grant funds that were secured by Merchant McIntyre.

Ontario City Council puts temporary hold on ordinance fines and fees; considers negotiating with residents on 75 accounts

ONTARIO City of Ontario Finance Director Kari Ott took to the podium at the Ontario City Council’s work session on May 6 to make a presentation about an amnesty program for civil penalties that residents may have incurred. The idea was initially floated by City Manager Adam Brown, who was not at the meeting as he was out of town. After discussing the matter at length and hearing public comment from the lawyer representing Mayor Riley Hill in a lawsuit versus the city over civil penalties, the council took action to temporarily halt ordinance fines. The suggestion to put a temporary hold on the fines and fees related to ordinance violations until the program gets “figured out,” was brought forth by Councilor John Kirby.

Taking a tater tot trot

ONTARIO Planning for Ontario’s upcoming Tater Tot Festival is underway and that means arranging the physical layout of the event will be getting plenty of attention. This is the first Tater Tot Festival to happen in Ontario and is planned for September 17 and 18 in downtown Ontario. Thursday afternoon saw city staff including Ontario City Manager Adam Brown and Ontario Chief of Police Steven Romero show up to accompany members of local non-profit organization Revitalize Ontario and event coordinators from Go Out Local, a marketing agency out of Boise, to discuss the arrangement of the festival’s features. The group met in Moore Park and reviewed a tentative map showing the various road closures, standard vendors and information booth, among other elements of the event.

Council talks possible code enforcement fine update

ONTARIO Ontario City Council, at its most recently scheduled meeting on Tuesday, took up the discussion of instituting a program to negotiate fee waivers and property liens as it relates to fines incurred from code enforcement violations. Ontario City Manager Adam Brown began the discussion by saying that he observed, when living in Michigan, that there was a program where an individual owing a fine could go to the district court and pay the original fine sans the fees, penalties, liens, “things like that” and get back into compliance with city code provided that the original code violation was adequately addressed.