Moss Point moving forward with hopes for improvement
Moss Point moving forward with hopes for improvement By Mike Lacy | February 25, 2021 at 6:02 PM CST - Updated February 26 at 8:19 AM
MOSS POINT, Miss. (WLOX) - The shock waves are still being felt in Moss Point after former Moss Point Mayor Mario King pleaded guilty to a federal charge and resigned. However, with Interim Mayor Robert Byrd in charge, the city has no choice but to move forward with the good and the bad.
Byrd’s first full day as interim mayor is not a tour of the city’s best side. Dumps like the one in East Moss Point is the most important thing on his mind.
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The transitional homeless shelter in Ontario, located at 123 N.W. Third Ave., the collaborative partnership between local nonprofit housing assistance agency Community in Action, local faith-based organization, Origins Faith Community and the City of Ontario, has raised concern from a citizen.
The concerned citizen, Ingeborg Dickerson, owner of the Huey apartments at NW Third Ave., submitted a letter addressed to Chief of Police Steven Romero, Mayor Riley Hill, and all members of the Ontario City Council, saying that after speaking to the âthe lady who owns the Townhouse apartments,â the site where the shelters are and was âassuredâ that there would âa 6-foot fence to enclose the entire project.â
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Ongoing issues with transients, such as break-ins, burglaries, theft, drug activities including shooting up in public, used needles left on the ground, loitering, urinating and defecating in public, panhandling and myriad other issues are cited as the reason that frustrated business owners on the east side are meeting with Ontario Police Chief Steven Romero on Friday.
Some of the problems with theft have been going on for years, but business owners in that area say it has become increasingly worse. Several reasons are cited, including the break-up of a well-established transient camp along the Snake River in November of 2019, as well as the fact that the Malheur County Jail isnât lodging people who havenât committed a major crime, a step Malheur County Sheriff Wolfe has said was made due to needing to limit inmate numbers because of COVID-19.
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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.