Ontario may get grant for new municipal well

By KAREN PARKER | Publisher Emeritus

Ontario Village Board members got good news at their Monday meeting,learning that the village was tentatively eligible for $636,740 in funding for a new municipal well.

The village’s share still will be $254,696. Those funds may come from a loan from the tax increment financing (TIF) district, the water department, an increase in water rates, or possibly a combination of all three.

Final funding will be determined later this fall, but at the urging of Davy Engineering, the village’s engineering firm, the board voted to proceed with the project.

Other business

• Ontario Police Chief Phil Welch told the board he had written a letter to Tom Kotten of Norwalk, directing him to cleanup his property at 210 Main Street. Kotten is selling the property on a land contract, but Welch said he had not been able to convince the current occupants to clean up the property.

• A deteriorated roof on a village storage shed on Park Street will be replaced this fall.

• The village’s Economic Development Committee requested funding for office supplies, etc. The matter was deferred to the budget committee meeting this fall.

• An operator’s license for Alisha Lombard was denied on the recommendation of Police Chief Phil Welch.

• The board agreed to cover the cost of an electrical hookup and installation of a new scoreboard at the village ball diamond.

 



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