Report shows an increase of fines paid over 5 years
St. Catharines city council voting to add more existing by-laws to a system that ensures fines are paid.
An Administrative Penalty System moves offences from provincial court to the city, with tickets mailed or posted to a property.
Director of Planning Tami Kitay says if tickets aren't paid, they're applied to the property taxes. "When we're looking at the 5-year revenues in the by-law enforcement budget, back in 2018 we were at $91,000 in revenue, just this year alone we're at $432,000."
A city report shows the system takes less staff time to administer enforcement of penalties for broken by-laws.
Councillor Carlos Garcia likes the idea of mailing tickets, instead of having city staff deliver them. "As we all know enforcing any fines under these by-laws is really a cumbersome, expensive, and time consuming process."
A city report shows fines will increase if tickets are not paid.
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