ONTARIO
This month, a full week is nationally designated to public works departments. As such, Director of Public Works Al Cablay, with Jacobs, the City of Ontarioâs Public Works department, wanted to discuss how the department is observing it and what residents can expect to see locally, which includes informational handouts and trinkets at City Hall.
In a phone interview on Thursday afternoon, Cablay said that the department will be presenting a proclamation to the City Council at its next regular council meeting on May 18.
According to information on the American Public Works Associationâs website, this yearâs National Public Works week will fall on May 16 â 22, and has been going since 1960. Cablay noted that the designated week first began, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. One of the purposes of this week is to educate the community about what public works departments do from the planning stages through project completion.
ONTARIO
Kicking off night two of the City of Ontarioâs budget committee meetings was Mayor Riley Hill who provided the first comments of the night saying that the national $1.9 trillion COVID relief package passed by the U.S. House and Senate this week would be benefitting Oregon, specifically Ontario.
Hill said he had received a call from the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and was informed that of the $1.9 trillion relief funds, $2.2 million of that amount would heading in Ontarioâs direction, he estimated that the city could be receiving approximately half of that amount within the next 120 days.
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