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City of Ontario Finance Director Kari Ott took to the podium at the Ontario City Councilâs 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 âfigured out,â was brought forth by Councilor John Kirby.
ONTARIO
Tuesday nightâs regularly scheduled meeting of the Ontario City Council included adoption of the the cityâs $43.2 million budget. This is an increase over the approved budget for 2020-21, which was $33.1 million.
There were two public hearings at the most recent meeting in adopting the budget for fiscal year 2021-22, Ontario Finance Director Kari Ott presented the cityâs budget for formal adoption.
The Ontario Budget Committee, met for three nights from March 9 through 11, to discuss the items in the budget and make alterations prior to formal adoption by the council.
State revenue sharing
âThe first public hearing is the easiest one,â said Ott, referring the hearing for the state revenue sharing.
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Ontarioâs mayor is not willing to pay the civil penalty that was handed to him in November regarding an ongoing issue with weed overgrowth for a property on Southeast 11th Avenue owned by his company Eldorado Investments, a local company which invests in real-estate projects. The reason: technicalities â seven of them to be exact.
In documents filed with Malheur County Circuit Court on Jan. 11 on behalf of Riley Hillâs Eldorado Investments to appeal the $500 fee, seven procedural errors by the cityâs Code Enforcement Department are alleged, including that he was not the person responsible but that it was a squatter. Additionally, he says the property had already been cleaned up by the time he got the penalty.
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