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View Comments Frustrated with its 40-year sheriff's contract, the Ojai City Council is exploring the alternative of running its own police force. Councilmembers are weighing the challenges of going independent against the rising costs of contracting with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. As much as 40-45% of Ojai's budget usually goes to pay for the sheriff's services, according to the city manager James Vega. But this year, he said, it's about 50%. The amount currently budgeted is $3.4 million. The city and the county are negotiating terms for extending the sheriff's services agreeme...
"I'm going to miss him deeply," Ryan Blatz said on Friday. He said he was proud to take over his father's seat in 2018. "It was not some coordinated effort for him to leave and me to go," Ryan Blatz said. "I don't know if I would have run if he had ran again. It just happened that way. Obviously, we communicated about city issues all the time, and he was an incredibly great resource." He remembered his father as having a positive and funny personality. "Right now, I miss his friendship," Ryan Blatz said. "He was the person everybody liked to have a beer with or have a laugh with. He a...
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