[0:02] I have to turn the mic on good it's working welcome everyone it's going to

[0:06] be time to start the meeting uh it is now

[0:10] 6:30 and Open Session will be called to order uh Jeremy would you like to leave

[0:15] the vacation yes let's do a little bit different with our uh moment of silence

[0:19] I think it's it's uh definitely noted that we have a lot of storms going on in

[0:23] the country especially folks stuck in Florida um we even have some Canyon

[0:26] Lakers that are stuck out there so let's have a moment of silence and think of

[0:29] all the families and obviously uh we'll be praying with for them as

[0:34] well thank you so much gly father you know a lot going on in the country Lord

[0:39] with the elections with the storms everything that's happening Lord I just

[0:42] ask for peace I ask that you be with the families Lord as they're going through

[0:46] very difficult times and you provide for them Lord and give them the resources

[0:49] that they need to get out of the terrible situation that they're in Lord

[0:53] please just uh protect the families and be with them and let us continue to do

[0:56] good things here in Canyon Lake Lord and be as supportive as we can if we can and

[1:00] when we can and in your name amen

[1:09] amen can you leave the pledge absolutely put your hand over your heart

[1:14] ready begin Al to the flag of the United

[1:18] States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible with

[1:26] liy and justice for all

[1:32] okay can we have the roll call council member Castillo here

[1:37] council member Dane here council member Smith here mayor Pro Temp ter here mayor

[1:42] wty here mayor you have a quum okay uh City attorney could you

[1:48] report on a close SE close session activities uh thank you mayor and good

[1:52] evening there's no reportable action out of tonight's Clos

[1:57] session thank you thank you on tonight we have some ceremonial manners I'm

[2:03] excited about uh we're going to start out with citizen of the month and uh

[2:08] October citizen of the month is kalista

[2:16] Grande tonight we honor kalista for her contributions to the city of Canyon Lake

[2:20] born and raised in Southwest Riverside County kalista has spent her entire life

[2:24] in the area and has called cany Lake home since 2018 she's a devoted mother

[2:29] to three children Zayn adessa Mala and a proud grandmother to her son

[2:36] Zayn too kalista say the

[2:42] second okay to Jan also okay kalista's dedications to the community is

[2:47] reflected in her active involvement she's director of philan philanthropy

[2:51] for the junior Women's Club board member of the Women's Club where she leads P

[2:56] publicity and communication former Director of Events for the ch Chamber of

[3:00] Commerce where she served for a year and a half and continues to volunteer she's

[3:04] a member of the young old people's club and a member of the mermaids Club in

[3:08] addition to her Club affiliations kalista was passionate about

[3:12] philanthropy and continues to serve others Beyond these organizations and

[3:16] always following her heart and giving back and uh I just a personal comment we

[3:21] my son did a little project about bringing uh uh little dolls to to and

[3:27] and figurines to the at the family court and uh he went they went out to Facebook

[3:34] and kalista brought one load and then another load and then another load and

[3:38] then another load uh she was relentless so I just want to say personally I

[3:42] appreciate you for that because that was pretty incredible so would you like to

[3:47] come on up and

[4:00] why

[4:11] [Music]

[4:16] me and here's your certificate and would you like to say

[4:23] something all right I've never known or not say I know

[4:28] I'm very outspoken but not in moments like these what do you want closer sure

[4:34] want

[4:52] do thank you so the only thing I want to say is that I love this community I do

[4:58] like Mark Terry says I think it's the greatest city in the world and we have

[5:03] so much good here and I'm I'm very thankful to be honored I appreciate it

[5:06] very much thank

[5:10] [Applause]

[5:17] you her her smile haunts me at times you you

[5:21] wake up and there's this big smile in your mentions Alissa Smiles me

[5:27] too says me too okay we're going to go ahead and move on

[5:33] to a proclamation

[5:37] um Proclamation for Fire Prevention Week Fire Prevention Week established in 1925

[5:43] is the nation's longest running Public Health obser observance it takes place

[5:48] each year during the week of October 9th in remembrance of the Great Chicago Fire

[5:52] which began in October 8th 1871 and left 100,000 people homeless while destroying

[5:58] more than 7 1,400 structures in 1871 100,000 was a lot of people that was a a

[6:07] big town going down this year's campaign is smoke alarms make them work for you

[6:11] focus is on educating everyone about the critical importance of having

[6:15] functioning smoke alarms in their home the campaign emphasizes three key

[6:19] actions install test and replace install smoke alarms in every bedroom outside

[6:24] each separate sleeping area on and on each level of the home test smoke alarm

[6:29] monthly by pushing the test button replace all smoke alarms when they are

[6:33] 10 years old or stop responding when tested during Fire Prevention Week

[6:38] Canyon fighter firefighters will provide life-saving public education to sign

[6:43] significantly reduce fire related casualties the the city council Pride

[6:48] proudly proclaims October 6 through 12th 2024 as fire prevention week and

[6:54] presents this proclamation to the city of Canyon Leake Fire Department in

[6:58] recognition of their incredible efforts

[7:02] okay I think we should get them all up here don't

[7:08] you we want all our

[7:12] [Applause] [Music]

[7:26] firefighters you want the m

[7:46] okay the proclamation reads whereas the City of cany Lake is committed to

[7:49] ensuring Safety and Security for all those living working and visiting our

[7:53] city and whereas the F fire is a serious Public Safety concern both locally and

[7:57] nationally and and the and homes are on the

[8:01] location where people are at the greatest risk from fire whereas roughly

[8:05] three out of five fire deaths happen the home where no smoke alarms or no working

[8:09] smoke alarms according to the National Fire Association and whereas spreading

[8:13] awareness of this necessary step asures your smoke alarms are working and

[8:17] whereas these steps include installing a smoking alarm in every bedroom testing

[8:21] your smoke alarms at least once a month replacing smoke alarms if they're 10

[8:25] years old and don't respond when tested whereas smoke alarms cut the risk of

[8:30] dying in half whereas smoke alarms are essential component to fire escape plan

[8:35] whereas can Lake residents should be sure everyone in their home understands

[8:38] the sounds of smoke alarms and those that to respond the cany fire department

[8:42] is dedicated to reducing the occurrence of Home Fires and home fire injuries

[8:46] through prevention and education whereas 2024 Prevention Week theme smoke alarms

[8:52] makes makes make them work for you effectively serves to remind us the

[8:56] importance of installing and maintaining and testing homes testing alarms in your

[9:00] home now therefore let it be proclaimed that the city of Canyon Lake recognized

[9:05] October 6 2012 excuse me October 6th through 12th

[9:10] as 2024 as fire prevention week in the city of Clon Lake in doing so we Ur all

[9:15] the people of cany Lake to focus on creating and regularly practicing an

[9:19] escape plan to keep them and their loved ones

[9:23] safe thank you Mr Mayor if I could make an announcement we're also going to

[9:28] start doing free smoke detector test at home so if it's not working we'll come

[9:33] out we'll give it a test if it needs batteries we'll replace the batteries we

[9:36] want to encourage the people test their smoke alarms make sure they're operating

[9:41] because uh three out of five deaths that occur in a home are because of a

[9:45] nonworking smoke detector so we want to do our part to try to mitigate that so

[9:49] we thank you on behalf of the fire department for recognizing this

[9:52] important week thank you we appreciate everything

[9:56] you do for us and uh 60% lost life is a pretty big number so

[10:01] let's let's get our smoke detectors tested thank

[10:17] you want to do it now or yeah I think to do it okay okay would you like the power

[10:23] I'll do it right we had everybody up there so I

[10:28] thought it would be a good opport Unity Jeff don't sit down um this is the

[10:33] second day for our newest employee and so we are so honored to have him come on

[10:37] board when uh Balian Chief Mike Samuels left us back in July I was dreading what

[10:43] are we going to do to find a a replacement because Mike was just an

[10:47] amazing individual and I don't think we could ever replace him um but I didn't

[10:51] have to look very forward to find a replacement and I'd like to introduce

[10:55] tonight our new battalion chief Jeff Roberts

[11:04] there's a lot of people in the community that know Jeff he has been with

[11:08] Riverside County calfire for over 30 years he started off as a firefighter

[11:13] was an engineer was a captain was a training Captain uh during that time he

[11:18] worked uh at Ben Clark's Training Center uh he taught in the truck Academy kind

[11:23] of ironic I was one of the founding members of the truck Academy he taught

[11:27] swiftwater rescue and operations something that we hope to tap in on him

[11:32] very quickly as he comes into our department when he was a captain he was

[11:37] assigned to station 94 right next door in Lake Elenor he's been to some of the

[11:42] largest incidents in Canyon Lake as part of that responding Captain off of engine

[11:47] 94 back in the old days of station 60 he worked out of our fire station 6 station

[11:52] 60 as a captain four years ago he promoted the battalion chief he was the

[11:57] battalion chief in Lake Elson and for wildemore and he would come in

[12:02] on incidents in Canyon Lake on a regular basis his local knowledge his technical

[12:07] expertise his involvement in fire prevention is just going to be something

[12:12] that we harness we Embrace and we look forward to our new future with battalion

[12:17] chief Jeff Roberts so I'd like to invite uh his wife to come up Melissa who's

[12:22] going to have the honor of the time tested tradition of pinning his

[12:26] battalion chief badge on him I'm actually going to have Kayla do

[12:30] it nice is this the uh the one in the fire academy so so this is his oldest

[12:35] daughter and she is in the fire academy at Ben Clark right now she was an

[12:40] ambulance operator for the city of Glendale and is working hard to follow

[12:45] in her father footstep as a firefighter so there you

[12:54] go so cool

[13:14] [Applause]

[13:22] so again congratulation to Chief Roberts I can guarantee you his response times

[13:26] are going to be incredible he lives in the lake he's lived in the lake for over

[13:30] 20 years and he is going to be part of our fire family and we welcome him

[13:33] aboard thank

[13:38] you you go

[13:42] Chief that's super exciting yeah that's super exciting I I want to say one thing

[13:47] Chief I had the opportunity of hanging out with you um before you came on board

[13:50] and um I'm really excited that you're here I really am I know that you might

[13:55] be showing up to 911 calls in a golf cart which will be a little bit

[13:58] different for us uh but we'll appreciate it because you'll be there quick but

[14:01] your experience just in the region coming to Canyon Lake um the residents

[14:05] truly don't know how lucky they are to have you as RBC so I just want to say

[14:09] that personally thank you seriously thank you so much we appreciate

[14:18] it Mar if I may we have one additional presentation tonight we would like to

[14:23] honor Lincoln Kingdon from test School Canyon as our student of the month for

[14:28] the month of SE September Lincoln if you would come up please our Council

[14:35] Jennifer like to presentation hello everyone my name is

[14:40] Lincoln kingon and I'm a senior at Kanan High School I've lived in a lake to hope

[14:45] my whole life my mom moved here I believe in 2004

[14:50] and at TC I've been in the welding program for all four years I'm a varsity

[14:55] football player Varsity track and field thrower my communative GPA is a 3.7 and

[15:00] my plans after high school is to go to sanen valet College in Ontario

[15:04] California to learn the hbac trade I look forward to working in this

[15:10] community after I graduate because I love it here so much and everyone around

[15:13] here thank you all for this opportunity having me here

[15:23] today I have just a couple other things to say um the our student of the month

[15:28] presid presentation that was supposed to happen in September happened yesterday

[15:32] because of the because of the fire so this was our first one of the year so

[15:37] Lincoln is one of the first one of the first awardees of the year and um he's a

[15:44] football player I don't know if you said that and one of the one of the things

[15:49] that coach and principal Hill said about him is that he's such a such a

[15:57] encouragement to the underclassman so he's the he's The Unofficial captain and

[16:04] I make it this wrong but leader in force fumbles last

[16:09] year so football people I think that's great

[16:14] and there's one that's one there's one fumble see he's

[16:19] already hold on and very happy to have principal Hill here for the first time

[16:25] for our student of the month and Lincoln's parents Kathleen and Chris so

[16:30] congratulations we have a another certificate for

[16:36] you for your for your student your student of the month thank you very and

[16:41] a little and a little gift so AES we we love out of these out of these student

[16:47] of the months out of 20,000 kids in the district there's about is it eight eight

[16:56] eight kids a month winning so it's a very it's a very big honor and you know

[17:02] in our little city of Canyon Lake we're very happy to have one of our own as one

[17:06] of the honores so

[17:13] congratulations conratulations

[17:18] get parents up

[17:22] there Dad Dad buying dinner tonight hey congratulations you guys had

[17:28] work to congratulations J we

[17:36] [Music]

[17:54] approve last

[17:57] one conratulations

[18:11] I love students of the months it's always makes you feel like a lot of

[18:17] optimism coming our way okay moving on to community reports

[18:21] Elenor Valley Municipal Water District update Jeremy did

[18:26] you yes Darcy um so last week or sorry last month she was talking to us about

[18:33] impact fees so she just wanted to let me know that it looks like uh her board

[18:37] will you know they thought there was a decision made but it looks like they're

[18:40] going to open it up for discussion and continue moving forward with possible

[18:43] different options so she wanted me to say that so it's not dead yet I guess

[18:49] good news thank you Mr Mayor okay can Lake

[18:54] Property Owners Association board President Bill van vet

[19:01] mayor walty council members staff it's uh it's been a while for me and uh good

[19:07] to be back first of all I want to start off and congratulate you on a very

[19:10] successful state of the city event we uh this this the event was

[19:15] great we had it was a great turnout now we saw the number of people from all

[19:19] around the region and um and the video you guys produced was very professional

[19:24] and very well done gave nice color for for our community so I want to

[19:27] congratulate you guys on on job well done um last week was a very busy week

[19:32] for all of us in addition to we had a board meeting we had state of the city

[19:35] uh we had a a car show which was very successful had over 200 cars there as

[19:40] well I know mayor Jeremy you had some a couple of cars there too and so that was

[19:45] uh it's always a great event that was a little toasty in the afternoon but if

[19:47] you got there early it was uh it was uh very very well done um also on the same

[19:53] weekend we had our city golf tournament and again very well turned uh a lot of

[19:57] people turned out uh great event uh and and we appreciate the fact that the the

[20:01] city uh the Water District and POA had had teams that getting that so a great

[20:06] great event for everyone at our uh board meeting last week there were kind of two

[20:10] significant achievements one is the first one is uh we passed a resolution

[20:14] to remove some very old and Antiquated language in our bylaws and what they do

[20:19] is they the bylaws state that there's only one Prime member allowed per per

[20:23] property and it defaults to the husband um and that although that has not been

[20:28] our practice for many years it's still on our BW so we cleaned that all up and

[20:31] said it's it's it is now up to the members uh they can choose if it's a

[20:35] joint tendency you can choose whichever member you want to be the prime and and

[20:39] if not it'll it'll def fall to whoever is the first person listed on the title

[20:43] so about time we got into the Millennium as far as that goes and uh and change

[20:48] all of that kind of language uh the second thing we did is we we passed a

[20:51] number of uh consolidation of our rules and many of you know we have many many

[20:56] pages of uh of rules I think 80 pages of rules that's uh to keep everything going

[21:03] um and we reduce it by about 10% uh but there are a lot of duplications and air

[21:07] uh not ER the duplications and redundancies that we've we've passed to

[21:10] to clean that up so so that was um that was that um looking ahead I want to

[21:15] remind everyone uh Halloween's probably the next big event that's coming up one

[21:19] of the practices that we put in place uh for almost a year now is that we

[21:24] restrict entry of service providers and that's had a big impact had a big on the

[21:28] 4th of July it's had a big big impact on all of our major events and so want to

[21:33] remind everyone that if you do need a service provider in for food or whatever

[21:36] that you have to call them in as a guest but it has substantially decreased our

[21:41] our traffic in and um other than that any questions for

[21:47] me no keep up a good word appreciate you thank you thank you so

[21:54] [Applause] much okay cany Lake chamber of com board

[21:59] President John

[22:02] Grande so you guys get two Grandes help here

[22:05] tonight Mr Mayor mayor protm uh council members City staff as always it's an

[22:11] honor to be up here to to address this uh fine board um as always I'll be very

[22:16] brief about a week and a half ago we had our second annual Battle of the

[22:20] businesses um we had so much fun um and we kind of dodged the big heat waves

[22:27] that were coming and going we're like smack dab in the middle right after one

[22:30] and before the other started still pretty warm but survivable the uh the

[22:36] winning team was touchless B covers and uh I'd also if anyone's listening at

[22:42] home or here always want to thank our volunteers uh we really couldn't have

[22:46] done it without everybody uh participating wanted to thank um the

[22:50] fire department for letting us borrow their uh their their training rope for

[22:55] um for the tug of- War events and overall it was a lot of fun Community

[23:00] came out cheered on their favorite teams and uh can't wait for uh to see this

[23:06] event happen again next year uh last week of course you guys to someone

[23:10] else's point put on a great state of the city event chamber was very uh proud to

[23:16] participate and help set up and you know um guide people around it's always a fun

[23:21] event to attend coming up um Saturday October 26th is our annual parade

[23:29] Frights and uh we're going to do a couple things we're not changing a lot

[23:32] but we're adding a couple things that are going to be terrific about a year or

[23:36] so ago is having a conversation with Chuck Golding a lot of us no Chuck and

[23:40] um as it turns out he was on the original Board of Directors for the

[23:44] Chamber of Commerce and he's the one who told me he came up with the idea of Paro

[23:48] Frights and the reason why they did that was not a lot of people in Canyon Lan

[23:53] knew about what businesses and services were available in the Town Center so

[23:58] what better way to do it is to have all the kids coming with their parents to

[24:02] trick or treat from business to business and that's what introduced them and so

[24:07] uh what we're going to add to that because kalista and I were having

[24:09] conversation and along with the board saying you know what we have more than a

[24:13] few businesses that are not in the Town Center either over at um Eastport or

[24:19] homebased businesses so we're going to give the opportunity for those

[24:22] businesses to sit at a table and uh and also hand out candy so we don't want to

[24:27] limit to just to Center people and this is a huge event the other thing we're

[24:31] adding I'm glad that Troy is here or did he ready oh he did left okay so uh one

[24:36] of the things we're adding is going to be a doggy costume contest so mayor

[24:40] Welty council member DNE I know you two definitely have dogs but bring them down

[24:46] um and the reason why I mentioned yard fresh it was their idea and they're

[24:49] going to be the judges of the event so um in addition to all the kids marching

[24:54] around and uh parading their costumes you gonna bring Z2 here as well that's

[25:00] my grandson by the way so that's right that's right um the other event that's

[25:05] coming up is going to be our monthly business Round Table that's going to be

[25:09] on the 7th of uh of November it's always the first Thursday of the month it's

[25:14] going to be at Magnolia room which is in the basement of the country club we run

[25:18] it from 7:15 we're very good about having everybody out by 8:30 so they can

[25:22] get to the Days um get to their days and and their obligations I'm uh very very

[25:28] proud to announce Erin yeah Erin's still here so um eron Adams of um who's on our

[25:34] board but also of queen of fun travel she's going to be do a presentation

[25:38] on I know you told me the importance of travel insurance there it is the

[25:43] importance of travel insurance so uh especially for those of those of you who

[25:47] travel on business or even on Pleasure I think it's going to be a valuable thing

[25:50] to come and take a look at I think that's everything I got for you today

[25:53] any questions all right right on thanks wait

[25:57] wait are you going to be Hall way oh I don't know um that that what she just

[26:02] said yeah smart man that's right that's right any other questions no appreciate

[26:09] all right thank you everyone good job thank

[26:13] you uh we have anyone from Lake elor Unified School District out there no

[26:19] okay moving on Public Safety updates city of can Lake code

[26:25] enforcement Ruby would you like to come up

[26:31] good evening mayor mayor protm council members and staff I will be reporting on

[26:35] the month of September so we had two unpermitted construction violations one

[26:42] mpds on BLM we had 13 unauthorized vehicles for citations would is were

[26:47] issued 14 verbal warnings were given one overnight parking in the Town Center one

[26:52] unauthorized vehicle parked for sale and three abandoned or wreck Vehicles were

[26:57] issued notice of violation two unpermitted signs uh two

[27:02] administrative nuisances two short-term rentals were found notice violations

[27:07] were issued and they since have complied um down to residential rental

[27:12] registrations we have a total of 3662 register rental properties 344

[27:18] renewed 18 are pending renewal 18 new unregistered properties were found seven

[27:24] inspections were conducted in person and 15 self certific certifications were

[27:30] completed and down to our business license we have seven new commercial

[27:33] business license registrations three new home occupations nine out of city and

[27:38] one renewal and that is all I

[27:42] have any questions okay thank you Ruby thank you

[27:47] Ruby appreciate you Riverside County sheriff and Department Captain

[27:54] rails hey Captain how are you good good evening honorable mayor mayor P City

[27:59] Council Members um happy to be here today to present to you I have two

[28:04] quarters worth of stats uh to do on a presentation since I missed the last

[28:08] meeting it's going to be April through September is what it's going to

[28:13] cover if I can figure this out all right there we go all right the

[28:20] first flight is going to be uh calls for service and this is uh for the three

[28:25] months of April May and June uh total calls for service in April were 382 in

[28:31] May it was 416 and in June it was 306 if you look at the gray bar right

[28:36] underneath those that'll show you the call for service from last year so you

[28:40] can see that April uh was a little bit higher uh May and June was actually

[28:45] lower this year and we broke down the calls for service um in the bars down

[28:49] below the first bar is uh midnight to 6:00 a.m. next bar is 6:00 a.m. till

[28:56] 12:00 noon the next bar is 12:00 noon until 6:00 at night and then the next

[29:02] bar will be 6:00 at night till midnight so as you can see most of the calls for

[29:07] service in those three months um are going to be from 6:00 at night till

[29:11] midnight the majority um is going to be from from uh 12: to 12 and that's calls

[29:17] for Service Plus self initiated both okay

[29:22] both next slide will be the months of July August and uh September and July

[29:28] almost even with 498 August 395 also really close September 350 which is down

[29:36] um quite a few from the year prior as you can see the in the bars down below

[29:40] we're almost in the same situation to where most of your calls and service are

[29:43] coming from um 6:00 at night till midnight or your self initiated

[29:50] calls next slide will be um all the arrests made in the city of Canyon Lake

[29:55] if you look at April um in the green that will be six felony

[30:00] arrests in April uh three the prior year in May we had four felony arrests and

[30:07] three the prior year and it flipflops in June to where we had one that we had two

[30:13] the prior year in June uh Mr meaners are on the other side with four in April

[30:18] seven in May and two in June all have a question are any of

[30:23] those warrants or that's every arrest just anything to on view arrests any any

[30:30] type of arrest that would not be arrests that

[30:34] were made from investigations those are standed a

[30:37] little different these would just be Patrol related

[30:42] arrests and if you look at uh July July were up to eight felony arrests two from

[30:49] the year prior two in August and then one in

[30:53] September and in July uh seven misdem arrests uh three in August and two in

[30:59] September and you can see the July obviously because of July 4th a lot

[31:03] going on we're going to have more arrests that

[31:06] month next slide is your part one violent crimes for April May and June

[31:14] um in April we had one assault we had no robberies no sex crimes no homicides

[31:21] same as uh prior year in May we had uh zero violent crimes uh two the year

[31:29] prior and then in June we had uh two assaults uh one in

[31:35] 2023 most of those assaults I looked them up most of them were related to

[31:39] domestic violence very very few are actually assaults that are out on the

[31:43] street in the parks that type of thing Captain can I I'm sorry can I can I back

[31:47] you up one slide sure just have a quick question in July

[31:52] didn't wasn't there a a DIY checkpoint in July said in July so with

[31:58] probably account for the I don't think we had any fail fony arrests at that

[32:03] checkpoint I think we had a 3 DUI so three out of those seven misdemeanors

[32:07] would have been from the checkpoint okay thanks I'm sorry I thought we didn't

[32:12] have any arrests on Fourth of July this year didn't we say that well that would

[32:19] just be for the month just for the full month just for the full month so right

[32:22] around that weekend because we have the extra deputies here from Friday all the

[32:25] way to Monday so during that weekend there was there's quite a few but yeah

[32:28] actually on the date of the 4th yeah we did not we did not have any any that

[32:33] Council I think it's on record for us right yeah since I've been there right

[32:38] yeah def it was it was a good fourth

[32:42] yeah okay so that covers April May and June we look at violent crimes from July

[32:47] August and September we had two assaults in July

[32:52] one robbery uh two sex crimes uh you're probably wondering what the robbery was

[32:57] was and that robbery was at a party um a lot of drinking

[33:04] involved um some people got into a fight uh pushing shoving and a cell phone sto

[33:11] so that's where that robbery is so wasn't somebody at gun point that type

[33:14] of thing in the Town Center was actually at residence uh the two sex crimes most

[33:19] of those are our investigations is still

[33:23] investigating those so um those could change once the Stats come out so that

[33:29] covers July and August we had uh no part one violent crimes and in September we

[33:35] had uh two aggravated assaults let's look at our property

[33:39] crimes in April we had uh three thefts Mary is a theft so we had uh three

[33:45] thefts uh one vehicle theft almost the same as the prior year

[33:49] with no vehicle thefts um in may we had two burglaries two thefts and one

[33:55] vehicle theft and in June we had no burglaries we had three thefts and three

[34:01] vehicle thefts look at property crimes for July August September and July we

[34:06] had nine thefts five the year prior we had uh

[34:12] five in August three the year prior and then uh four thefts in September and

[34:19] actually going back we had one Bry in August and um one vehicle theft overall

[34:27] which was in the the month of September so that covers your part one

[34:31] crimes let's look at uh average response times in April um priority one was over

[34:39] 8 minutes priority two 29 minutes and priority 3 33 minutes and then priority

[34:45] 4 37 minutes looking into May yes that Priority One um

[34:51] 19 just over 19 minutes I went back and looked and there was one call that

[34:55] skewed that entire thing and what it was is a it was a medical Aid um

[35:01] overdose that should have been changed the call for service should have been

[35:05] changed by the deputy as far as what it was they should have changed it to an

[35:09] aod which they did not so a state of priority one that would have slipped it

[35:12] down to a priority 2 and that would have brought that down probably back in that

[35:16] range of just 8 minutes so looking at June um 8 minutes 28 seconds and then

[35:21] the prude 20 just over 20

[35:25] minutes looking at July same right around 8 minutes for Priority One uh

[35:31] same for priority 2 right around 29 minutes August just over eight minutes

[35:36] and then just under eight minutes in September for priority ones is it weird

[35:40] captain to see priority three priority four priority 4 be less than priority 3

[35:44] for the month of July it just a per call thing priority 3 and priority 4 it's not

[35:49] a big difference yeah um it just matters what it falls ass obviously priority

[35:53] one's our highest priorities and that's why I'm focusing on that priority two is

[35:56] our next priority priority with that deals

[35:59] mostly um with property yeah so I'm more worried about the priority ones which

[36:05] it's a little high right now I like to see it normally here it's in the seven

[36:08] range seven and a half range um I've done stats for all of our cities and our

[36:12] County areas lately and our priorities were up a little bit um for priority

[36:17] ones I don't know if that's related to the fire if it's skewed or what happened

[36:20] but here we don't it didn't change our staffing level so it should have changed

[36:22] here so we might not have had as many deputies coming in backing up if we need

[36:26] them to on a priy one but it's it's a little bit higher than higher than

[36:30] nor nothing to be alarmed at but except for the one but it's just cuute from

[36:35] that one call here's our traffic related uh stats we had a total of 11 collisions

[36:43] in April we had one citation um written in

[36:48] April and one DUI in may we had six collisions we had

[36:52] two citations written and two DUIs in June we had six collisions

[36:58] 38 citations and uh three

[37:02] du so you can see it's quite a bit up in June um you're going to see the same

[37:07] thing in July we had three collisions and 36 citations 40i

[37:12] written we did have the checkpoint that month so that's the reason that is up in

[37:18] June um I had a couple of deputies that were out here and I pushed him heavily

[37:22] towards that Fourth of July weekend to to do some traffic related um

[37:26] enforcement which they did and it brought that up to to 36 citations so

[37:31] that's why June and July uh towards the end of jun June and the beginning of

[37:36] July is where we got most of those citations which is over

[37:39] 70 um August we had 12 collisions up quite a bit and uh one citation written

[37:45] and one DUI in September seven collisions two citations and two DUI

[37:53] rest and that covers all the stats for those three months if you have any

[37:58] additional

[38:03] questions I have a question the collisions how many on railro Canyon

[38:07] would you guess I would say not most of them were inside the gate just for me

[38:12] looking back and seeing where the collisions were a lot of them were were

[38:15] minor injury collisions inside the game there was a couple on Railroad Canyon

[38:19] but most were most were inside and they go slower inside the gates they tend to

[38:23] so the collisions are a little less hope hopefully us you why they're less

[38:28] yeah less damage less injury less damage less injury inside the gate because it

[38:32] is I have a question about that does that include hit and run yes okay we

[38:37] have those y that's considered traic question Captain can you help me

[38:43] understand a priority to call you write pose or did pose immediate threat to

[38:48] human life or property could you give me an example of that and the reason I ask

[38:53] is would it would help me better understand

[38:57] about a half hour response to a priority two call prior priority one is your

[39:03] highest level of call that is the same as the fire department when they're

[39:07] responding CO3 to a call with lights and Sirens or get there as quickly as

[39:10] possible and as shly somebody overdose there's a medical emergency a baby's not

[39:15] breathing could be man with a gun could be somebody armed that type of thing um

[39:20] a family fight to where there's maybe a knife involved or a gun involved we're

[39:24] rolling code to those um anything that there's not going to be a code response

[39:30] so it's going to be driving normal you know obeying the laws of the road um and

[39:35] usually that's a lesser call to where it's usually not any injury to a person

[39:40] it's going to be could be a fight a fight's going to be a party to inv

[39:43] lesters unless there's maybe a gun or knife involves some type of weapon

[39:48] baseball bat that would bump up the part well but if it's just a fight in the

[39:51] street or an argument that type of thing that's going to be a priority too um an

[39:54] alarm call at business is going to be a priority

[39:57] to um those types of things burlar in progress could be a one or a two usually

[40:02] it's a it's a one if there's someone inside the

[40:05] house on a priority to is it one officer one Deputy responding or are you you

[40:11] sending two deputies to it matters what the call is most domestic violence calls

[40:15] are a priority to we're going to send two deputies on those uh robbery um

[40:20] could be a priority one or two we're sending two deputies berglar is going to

[40:23] be a priority one or two s sending two deputies

[40:27] just to stabilize the

[40:31] situation I I'm really not trying to press you oh no I have it's my

[40:35] understanding we have one Deputy who is servicing Canyon Lake um at any point in

[40:43] time during the day is that correct

[40:48] correct I I I'm just seeing 29 minutes 26 minutes and 25 minutes can you help

[40:55] me understand that time for a deputy who um

[41:00] is in my understanding either in Canon lake or out at our town center or is

[41:06] that the case or if you look at all the calls for Ser it's pretty sporadic if

[41:11] the deputy's on another call on another one or two priority call got it he's

[41:15] staying on that call until he finishes it now a priority two call most likely

[41:20] if it's not going to be long we won't send another deputy knowing that he's

[41:24] going to be up that call but it could be 10 minutes which delays it um if it bump

[41:28] to a party mon call we're going to pull another deputy into the city to handle

[41:31] other party mon call she'll have two in here but it's kind of it's it's up to

[41:34] the decision of the supervisor to to make those adjustments and bring

[41:38] additional deputies excellent thank you C but that that priority too is not

[41:43] anywhere from 15 to 25 minutes is pretty normal for any any City excellent thank

[41:48] you and that's why our bill like kind of fluctuates because every time we pull in

[41:53] a second depy we get bu line not well if you pull in a second Deputy if it goes

[41:59] over 30 minutes then we Bill if it's under 30 minutes we don't Bill 15

[42:03] minutes we change it to 30 okay it was 15 for about a month okay we were trying

[42:08] something new um it was too much for accounting and finance and it kind of

[42:11] got convoluted we switched it to 30 minutes so every every 30 minutes now

[42:14] it's we'd be willing to accept an

[42:18] hour so not not too often I mean there is additional billing to have especially

[42:22] if you have a large traffic Legion and we have to bring additional resources

[42:25] into traffic control and that type of

[42:29] thank thank you all right thank Captain city of Canyon Lake Fire

[42:37] Department chief lendus good to see you [Music]

[42:42] again good evening again Mr Mayor mayor protm city council City staff je

[42:47] attenders your fire chief and I'm here tonight to present not just the uh

[42:51] monthly statistics for September but since we were dark in August I'm

[42:57] catching up for August to so it may take a little bit longer to get through

[43:00] everything tonight so for the uh the month of August we had 86 emergency

[43:06] responses one month later we had 111 and so September was our second busiest

[43:12] month for this year one of our busiest months since the fire department started

[43:15] operations in January of [Music]

[43:19] 2022 in August we had six fire responses 56 medical responses one hazardous

[43:27] condition eight service calls 14 good attemp calls and that came to the 86

[43:33] responses in September we had four fire responses 73 medical responses eight

[43:39] service calls 15 good attent calls and one special

[43:45] incident our fire calls for the month of August on August 3rd we were uh part of

[43:50] a mutual a or an automatic Aid response to the

[43:54] 27300 block of Jarvis and metab there was an approximately 1 acre brush fire

[43:59] there that our engine assisted on on August 4th we had a vehicle fire at the

[44:04] intersection of Sparkle in Canyon Lake Drive South uh the engine compartment of

[44:09] that vehicle was fully destroyed on August 6th we had another vehicle fire

[44:15] this one was in Meadowbrook in the 20,300 Block of Mountain the vehicle

[44:20] fire actually spread into the vegetation and so it was a fairly large response

[44:24] for that one on August 13th we had an equipment fire in the 29400 block of

[44:31] stampede way that turned out to be a fire in a water heater on August 16th

[44:37] the structure fire in the area of metal Brook in the 22,300 block of Hyatt it

[44:43] was a modular home with a fire in an attic or a basement crawl space and then

[44:49] on a August 17th we had a structure fire in the 29300 block of vacation drive and

[44:56] that was started by a barbecue on a wooden deck that started the wooden deck

[45:01] on fire so so half of the fires in August were in meow Brook that is

[45:07] correct yes you know it's interesting uh

[45:12] speaking with Chief Roberts lately he uh he said that with his tenure in

[45:17] Riverside County calire he ran most of his fires into the meter Community it

[45:22] was a very active area for fires our September fire responses

[45:28] September 10th everybody knows this one it was a brush fire uh our units

[45:32] initially responded to the abill ranch in Nicholas Road area this was the

[45:36] airport fire and our firefighters were part of Riverside County Task Force 2

[45:41] and they were deployed for over two days to that incident on September 13th there

[45:46] was a vehicle fire on Highway 74 in Riverside Lane in Lake Elenor that

[45:51] turned out to be a false alarm on September 18th we had a structure fire

[45:56] in the 29400 block of a stampede it was an

[46:01] attic in a fire in an attic uh it had potential to do some extensive damage

[46:08] that happened at about 2:00 in the morning uh the occupants were alerted by

[46:12] their smoke alarms so kind of ironic here we are fire prevention week uh they

[46:17] got out the uh actually their home had their smoke alarms connected to their

[46:22] alarm system and the alarm company was one of the reporting parties and then on

[46:27] September 30th we had an equipment fire in 23 800 block of Outrigger drive and

[46:33] it was again another water heater

[46:37] fire our time of day it it's kind of interesting when I watch the captain

[46:41] give his report a lot of times when he's the busiest we're the slowest but um you

[46:46] know in the early morning hours we have our slowest period of time we peek up in

[46:51] the early afternoon in the late evening and then in in the midnight and early

[46:56] morning hours were typically a little bit slower here in August you can see

[47:00] we're really slow in the morning hours and stayed fairly consistent throughout

[47:04] the rest of the night during the month of September uh

[47:09] this slower period stayed longer in the morning time and then it really peaked

[47:13] about uh 6:00 at night where over the month 12 of our responses were in that

[47:19] time period again we try to plan our responses or our training uh during the

[47:24] slower period so our activities are not inck impacted by emergency

[47:29] responses overall as we look where the fires occurred uh it's always consistent

[47:34] the majority of our incidents occur in single family residents but again during

[47:38] the month of August we had one response to the fire station and during the month

[47:43] of September we had two responses to the fire station so again whatever we try to

[47:47] do if we can get the word out we're not always there please call 911 and the

[47:51] closest available resource will be dispatched this just again a heat map of

[47:57] the month of August of where our responses were inside Canyon

[48:02] Lake a little bit different from the month of

[48:07] September and then we look at our response times during the month of

[48:11] August our turnout time and that's from the time we hear at the fire station of

[48:15] an incident until we actually go in route or responding to it during the

[48:19] month of August it was 1 minute 2 seconds and during the month of

[48:23] September it was 1 minute 7 Seconds um to me this is a little bit alarming we

[48:27] want to try to keep that number below a minute on our average 50% of the time so

[48:32] we've already been working with our Personnel on trying to keep an eye on

[48:35] this try to understand what we're doing that's taking a little bit longer so

[48:39] that we can decrease it our travel time or the time from going in route to

[48:44] arriving on scene in August was 5 minutes 51 seconds and in September 5

[48:49] minutes and 19 seconds and then finally the overall response time from time of

[48:55] notification time of arrival on scene August was 6 minutes and 46 seconds and

[49:00] then in September 6 minutes and 7

[49:05] seconds again what's important to us is 50% of the time is good but it's not a

[49:10] good snapshot what are we doing 90% of the time well 90% of the time we're

[49:14] getting out of the station in August 1 minute 34 seconds and in September 1

[49:19] minute 44 seconds so again these are higher than we'd like to see they are

[49:24] still below our goals uh but we still want to try to improve on these our

[49:28] travel time in August was 7 Minutes 56 seconds and then in September 7 minutes

[49:33] 59 seconds and then finally our total response time 9 Minutes 8 seconds in

[49:39] August and then 9 minutes and 9 seconds in

[49:43] September automatic and mutually during the month of August Canyon Lake

[49:48] responded 13 times into the adjoining jurisdictions 12 were in Lake Elenor one

[49:54] was in Good Hope and then one in menae this year so far Canyon Lake has

[49:58] responded to 91 incidents outside the city 78 in Lake Elenor and seven in Good

[50:04] Hope and six in mene this is just a map showing where

[50:09] those incidents occur during the month of August and again you can see where

[50:14] they occur a lot of them are in the Meadowbrook area we'll see in September

[50:18] that changed a little bit though as we look at September we responded to 22

[50:23] incidents outside the city 11 in the uh Lake Elenor area and these are the ZIP

[50:29] code areas so I'll try to clarify that one in good H hope and 10 in manae and

[50:33] then so far this year including August and September now we've responded 113

[50:39] incidents outside the city 89 in Lake elen or 16 in Good Hope and eight in

[50:46] menae so these were the locations of where the incidents were and you can

[50:51] kind of see a change this time that we went into mene a lot more than we have

[50:55] typically gone into to in our previous months um so I I don't know the reasons

[51:01] why what was going on in mene but they needed us more often in that

[51:06] area and then just a detailed map of all of our automatic and mutual a outside

[51:11] the city uh so far this year for the total of

[51:16] 113 in the month of August calfire responded seven times into the City and

[51:21] during the month of September they responded eight times into the city so

[51:26] so this year calfire has come into the city 68 times to assist us on emergency

[51:32] incidents um this is the map showing where those incidents are why do they

[51:37] come in and help us but we could have back-to-back incidents or concurring

[51:40] incidents so we need help because we're committed to another call there are

[51:44] incidents that require more than one unit as you were asking about law

[51:48] enforcement Priority One and priority two there are certain medical

[51:51] emergencies such as a cardiac arrest that require two engines and then if

[51:56] there a traffic accident depending on the kind of information they're getting

[52:00] if there are people trapped that will elicit a larger responsive fire units

[52:04] and then obviously structure fires will also bring in additional units than the

[52:09] one engine that we need so that's why we use calfire on um the 68 times thus far

[52:15] this year our training hours during the two

[52:19] months we had 329 hours of training hours to date this year we've had

[52:25] 2,411 uh for for the months of August and September we focused on Rick

[52:29] training a rapid intervention crew that's an example of what we did we set

[52:33] up a prop we make like wires so if there's a drop ceiling that come down

[52:37] our firefighters can negotiate it again it's it's busy Wildland time as we saw

[52:42] this last two months so we did Wildland structural defense training we did

[52:46] simulations on Wildland there's a new EMS program that we're learning coming

[52:50] from the county called hands heavy and it is basically a better way to identify

[52:56] how to give medications and dosages to our pediatric patients so we're going

[53:01] through that training we did rope Rescue Training our reserves focus on Emergency

[53:05] Medical Service training uh blood pathogen training for all Personnel

[53:10] driver operator training and then finally Fire officer training and an

[53:14] officers meeting public education during the two

[53:18] months we uh did the taco Tuesday and the last one with the Maui Sunday we

[53:22] were here for the city hall groundbreaking uh we had a team as part

[53:26] of the men's club golf tournament and the firefighters were out there

[53:31] encouraging us U wild 911 Patriots Day ceremony at City Hall or at the fire

[53:37] station was cancelled we had a private ceremony and it was still very special

[53:41] and moving uh we participated in the kids Derby kids fishing derby uh Harbor

[53:46] Fish Battle of the businesses and then finally our daily interaction with the

[53:51] community our significant event kind of talked about it earlier was the airport

[53:56] fire um for those who don't know it was

[53:58] started by uh County Public Works Personnel in Orange County it started on

[54:04] September 9th on September 9th in the evening uh all the Fire Chiefs in the

[54:09] county got on a conference call we talked about available resources what

[54:13] could we do because the fire chief knew Riverside County fire chief knew the

[54:17] fire was coming into Riverside County uh Canyon Lake was able to survey all of

[54:22] our Personnel it's what we call a plan need we were able to staff a second

[54:27] engine we brought them in the next morning we had two engines staffed uh

[54:32] ready to go for a response either inside the city or to assist in the fire and

[54:37] then about 2:00 they dispatched us as part of the task force which included

[54:42] units from other cities in Riverside County the crew was gone for about two

[54:47] days over two days um they were uh prepositioned in Lake Elenor for

[54:51] structural protection and we're very proud of their efforts we're proud to be

[54:55] part of the community Community the fire Community helping each other during a

[54:58] large incident like this still lost over 100 homes a lot of those in the eliso

[55:04] area in Riverside County and so it's still a very tragic incident for our

[55:09] County and so that concludes my report and I'm available for any questions if

[55:13] you have

[55:15] any any questions I do educate Mark Terry Knight

[55:22] what what is a good intent call so a good intent might be someone thought

[55:26] they saw smoke and they call us out there and we get there and it's a

[55:31] barbecue or something along that line that could be a good intent call it they

[55:35] call it in thinking it's a an Emergency we get there we find out it's not wasn't

[55:40] malicious it was a good intent call thank

[55:45] you I feel good thank you a comment the Canyon Lake Insider sent me an article

[55:51] that says msjc is going to open a new paramedic training program I don't know

[55:55] if you're aware of that that it's right down the street

[55:59] uh Friday I got the same text and so I think that's great news uh any place

[56:04] that we can get more of our local individuals trained in param medicine uh

[56:09] I think uh supervisor Jeff recently put out an article um that talked about the

[56:15] critical shortages in Public Safety in fire fighting in paramedicine in law

[56:20] enforcement California Highway Patrol and anything we can do to bring more

[56:25] people into the profession would it's only going to help all of us

[56:29] it's just nice to see something within like basically ebiking distance from our

[56:33] fire station rather than having to travel to Riverside or we fully agree

[56:38] and we hope there's some way we can partner with them in the future bringing

[56:41] in reserve firefighters from there giving them experience U you know we're

[56:45] willing to partner with them and help out as best we can that's awesome it

[56:49] sounds wonderful yeah thank you thank you thank you chief

[56:56] okay that will end that section do we do we have any public

[57:01] comments mayor we do not any both on non agenda and on consent agenda that's

[57:06] correct okay okay council member

[57:12] reports uh anyone like to go

[57:20] first everybody silent they're going to let me do mine

[57:23] first okay I had some meeting I had some meetings this week I just want to thank

[57:27] the staff the state and city uh they they helped me along uh just I have to

[57:33] appreciate that I miss something on

[57:37] theenda perfect so uh I just want to say wanted to say I appreciate that uh

[57:43] Northwest Northwest Vector uh is working on a five-year business plan so I'm part

[57:48] of that group we're working on that I was able to attend wemar state of the

[57:52] city that was a great experience um Le did a presentation

[57:57] about a week and a half ago about the Allen treatment and the fish dieye that

[58:00] occurred in the spring didn't get a lot of great attendance but the information

[58:04] was good so just to be a heads up to everyone next week October 14th through

[58:09] 18th they plan on doing another alen treatment so just if you see that boat

[58:13] out there spraying unknown things out in the water uh that that's going to happen

[58:18] uh so that's coming uh one of the reasons that they are delaying the Alum

[58:23] a little bit is they think that last fish die may have had something to do

[58:25] with the pH of the water so now before they do Al treatments they're going to

[58:30] test the ph and make sure that that there will be less or hopefully no

[58:34] reaction and that's all I

[58:42] have okay moving on to consent agenda well I'll give an update if we're just

[58:47] going to do it that way wait you want everyone to give an update you have

[58:50] stuff to say too right sure um I'll be quick rctc um Holland Road you all

[58:55] familiar with that we got a bypass that's happening in two weeks I think

[58:58] all of us got a calendar invite that's going to be huge for the city of Min so

[59:01] you can go over the 215 um so that's happening um I believe at 9:00 a.m.

[59:05] October 22nd the other thing um RTA we went to DC two weeks ago um it was the

[59:13] first time we've ever did a joint trip with rctc and RTA I talked about it last

[59:17] month um really good productive meeting with uh Congressman you Senator

[59:23] Transportation folks um so trying get dollars back to Riverside County the big

[59:28] thing that is happening in transportation as most of you are aware

[59:32] is this whole electrical movement thing and we're just not ready so hydrogen's a

[59:35] big push of what RTA is doing um another shout out we have what are we 27 days

[59:41] now away from an election um RTA is giving free rides to the polls so pretty

[59:47] cool countywide so anyone can hop on a bus and get driven into a poll if they

[59:51] can find a route that favors them um our CEO implemented that pretty much on her

[59:56] first day um as CEO so it's pretty cool to see that that's it thank you

[1:00:01] mayor okay Mark are you ready I

[1:00:08] am my uh wife and I had the opportunity to uh attend the Riverside uh recovery

[1:00:14] resource comedy night um Riverside recovery resource is a

[1:00:21] 501c3 and uh they are a nonprofit organization that provides alcohol and

[1:00:26] drug addiction recovery opportunities and it was a fantastic event it was held

[1:00:32] at Lake Elenor Casino CJ's Bar and Grill believe it or not and uh it was

[1:00:39] completely sold out and uh in I don't want to make light of this but to keep

[1:00:44] up with a comedy they did have h two drink

[1:00:47] minimum but um raised uh several thousand and um uh the 50/50 ended up

[1:00:55] going back towards the organization it was a very successful night and um I'm

[1:01:01] very high on this organization and uh look forward to working them with them

[1:01:06] in the future um the next time we meet there will be a new president elect is

[1:01:13] that correct and I just want to remind our

[1:01:16] residents that not only as a US citizen do you have the privilege of of voting

[1:01:24] or the right to vote but you you actually have an obligation to vote and

[1:01:29] it's an overused term when we say this is perhaps the most important election

[1:01:34] in this country's history but I truly believe it and I I would encourage our

[1:01:40] residents to pay attention to not only uh the national election but pay

[1:01:46] attention to your state election your county election your propositions all of

[1:01:53] these things matter and um um just in closing I encourage you to vote and and

[1:01:59] get involved thank you mayor you're welcome anyone down that

[1:02:04] way sure I'll go um great job on to the city staff absolutely on abolutely state

[1:02:11] of the city really enjoyed it um want to give a shout out to our city

[1:02:18] manager you're doing a great job I'm just thrilled just want to tell you that

[1:02:24] um additional update is in um next Wednesday is the Inland Empire Blue

[1:02:32] Bells officer of the year recognition and for Lake Elenor station we get to

[1:02:38] recognize Rolando Lopez I'm very excited about that as the 2023 Deputy from that

[1:02:45] station so excited to see everyone there for that and the 24th is our pumpkin

[1:02:51] bash which is going to be amazing and probably the best event ever best

[1:02:58] obviously so no pressure but going to be perfect um we do you you mentioned that

[1:03:06] we do have um obviously the election not only do we have

[1:03:12] the state and city but we have school board election going on too so that's

[1:03:17] super important for our culate kids and that's all I have to say but I'm I'm

[1:03:23] happy to be here man this is a great City

[1:03:28] Council M um already talked about student of the

[1:03:34] month and we get two of them this month because we skipped last

[1:03:38] month I did have my by annual scaffa meeting last week and for all of you

[1:03:48] watching Animal Friends Animal Friends the valley they they do a they do a

[1:03:53] presentation every every time we have these meetings and walked through the

[1:03:57] numbers of animals that were adopted during

[1:04:02] covid during 2020 and then the number of them that got turned back when people

[1:04:06] had to go back to work so they're really looking for additional volunteers to

[1:04:12] help with the with the animals they have a they have a great reading program

[1:04:17] where kids and adults go read to the read to the animals and it's and it's

[1:04:22] really sweet to see little 2-year-old read to them and just talk about the

[1:04:27] pictures and engage with the engage with the animals but they're always looking

[1:04:32] for volunteers and please consider adopting

[1:04:36] if you're looking for a new pet because they have plenty of animals they do get

[1:04:40] a lot of support from rescues in the area they work very closely with rescues

[1:04:45] to see if they can have have the rescues Foster the animals before they before

[1:04:50] they have to come back and you know there's lots of lots of

[1:04:55] talk about inflation and the prices of everything going up and if anyone is

[1:05:02] considering turning in an animal because they can't afford food animal France has

[1:05:08] a food bank that is available to all of our all of our CI citizens that need

[1:05:13] help and they can even deliver food if needed if it's going to help keep an

[1:05:18] animal out of the shelter and keep it in the home they're they're willing to help

[1:05:22] with that so keep that in mind if you need a little

[1:05:28] help okay thank you all moving on to the consent agenda any council member would

[1:05:34] like to pull the consent agenda item yeah I'll pull

[1:05:39] five any others I knew you were going to do

[1:05:44] that okay item five being pulled uh can I get a motion on one through

[1:05:50] four I'll make the motion second

[1:05:56] roll call vot council member Castillo I council member d i council member Smith

[1:06:02] I mayor Pro tempar I I motion

[1:06:08] passes okay uh do we have any comments on item five yeah I think we were going

[1:06:13] to let you off that easy um we as a council constantly are communicating

[1:06:20] with residents and the big question was is why Aaron Brown well Aaron I got to

[1:06:26] say man it has been a pleasure what has it been is it been 6 months now 6 months

[1:06:30] and you know for me um seeing what has happened in the last 6 months you know

[1:06:36] we're going to talk about one of the big projects that we're working on um later

[1:06:39] on in the meeting but that's just one example of the things that we have seen

[1:06:44] just happen and I just want to give kudos to you um there's no doubt that

[1:06:49] for me I'm so happy that you're going to be our Now official city manager for the

[1:06:54] city of Canyon Lake you definitely put us in a different direction than we were

[1:06:57] before and we could not have done that without your leadership um most people

[1:07:02] in the community don't know all the stuff that's happening behind the scenes

[1:07:04] but I can say in confidence that with you um as our CM we're going to get so

[1:07:10] many things done that should have been done in my mind over a year ago but now

[1:07:15] those things are happening so I just want to say thank you you deserve this

[1:07:17] we appreciate you um thank you for selecting Canyon Lake as a place to be

[1:07:22] um your home appreciate you that's my comments Mr Mayor thank you very much

[1:07:28] for that I'll make a comment and it's wonderful to to see uh eron going from

[1:07:32] interim to to city manager it's just the continuity is important to us nothing

[1:07:38] like sitting on your seat wondering who's going to be the city manager in

[1:07:41] three months and it's it's nice to let that go and let that come off everyone's

[1:07:46] back and we're excited with with the work he's done and I I totally think

[1:07:50] we're going to be excited with the work you do in the future so thank you man

[1:07:54] you know we're in aggressive Council and uh I've been told that we

[1:07:59] are somewhat kind of sort of I think you're a a perfect fit not

[1:08:05] only for this Council um but I think that uh you are a perfect fit for our

[1:08:12] residents here in Kenyon Lake and um finally somebody who kind of gets how we

[1:08:18] move and how quickly we like to move um and uh I'm very appreciative that you're

[1:08:24] going to be our city thank you m presend how does it feel to

[1:08:27] be the city manager for the greatest City on the planet that's right like I I

[1:08:32] don't know what took me so long to get

[1:08:35] here welcome thank you can I add one more thing to my

[1:08:41] earlier shout out um City staff has told me that they are

[1:08:48] grateful that you are here and when we think about as a council how we all fit

[1:08:54] together and how we are able to get things done because the personality is

[1:09:00] align that's a big important thing I think that um You probably really can't

[1:09:06] put a price on and so your leadership is important to us and I'm just very

[1:09:12] excited to see this momentum continue thank you

[1:09:17] coun I I would agree with Casey what you have done with our staff is phenomenal

[1:09:22] and you can really see the difference their confidence their enthusiasm is is

[1:09:28] tremendous and um I know you have a big part of that I know your ability to give

[1:09:35] responsibility to others um not because you're trying to Dish responsibility but

[1:09:41] because you're trying to mentor and encourage others with their confidence

[1:09:44] that they can do big things and I appreciate that and I know our sta I

[1:09:49] would say the the brass shrines because it's brass

[1:09:53] not because I polished it so this the staff

[1:09:57] um without them I don't I don't get this job so it all of my things goes to the

[1:10:05] team huge shout out to councilwoman Casey Castillo and councilwoman Jennifer

[1:10:08] DNE for finding this man thank you accept that credit thank you and um you

[1:10:14] know for for me I know that this is so important uh to councilwoman Jennifer

[1:10:19] Dane and I'm just so thankful that the two of you did the work you did um the

[1:10:24] due diligence you did before we interviewed him officially and it made

[1:10:28] it so much easier and so thank you to the two of you for for putting a good CM

[1:10:33] um in front of us so I think they should make the motion in a second it should be

[1:10:37] their thing I will make the motion and before

[1:10:42] I say that I am also very happy that you're here I think you're a great

[1:10:46] addition to our city and are a big help to all of us so thank

[1:10:54] you and I will make the motion to approve amendment number two and I

[1:11:01] second roll call council member Castillo hi council member d i council member

[1:11:06] Smith I mayor Pro Terry I may I motion passes thank you very much

[1:11:14] [Applause]

[1:11:18] Mar okay um business item six upgrading update regarding the police service

[1:11:26] assessment we'll have a presentation by city manager Brent would you like to go

[1:11:31] ahead with that I'm going to go ahead and delegate that to the trained

[1:11:40] professionals good evening Mr Mayor good evening mayor protm members of the

[1:11:45] council and uh city manager Brown congratulations uh John Sullivan for GPS

[1:11:51] Consulting U what I'm going to do in the next few minutes is give you a brief

[1:11:58] overview of the police services assessment of Matt Rodriguez and I put

[1:12:05] together for the council um essentially we looked at various alternative courses

[1:12:10] of action from police services in County Lake we uh assessed the potenti

[1:12:16] potentiality of uh including mayor can I interrupt for a second I can't tell if

[1:12:22] the mic is not on I'm not getting the audio it's on it's on okay so just bring

[1:12:27] it a little closer thank you okay can you hear me now I get right up here okay

[1:12:31] we assess various alternative CES of action for police services including

[1:12:35] retaining the Riverside Sheriff's Office establishing a dedicated Municipal

[1:12:38] Police Department and utilizing external providers the key considerations we

[1:12:44] looked at included community policing technology integration and

[1:12:48] organizational models we looked at a number a couple potential external

[1:12:53] providers to include meny and Mett although we did not make a determination

[1:12:58] of which might be the most desirable the alternative course of action uh that we

[1:13:02] essentially looked at were number one the status quo retaining Riverside

[1:13:07] Sheriff's Office number two providing intense oversight and contract

[1:13:11] compliance goals to uh the Riverside Sheriff's office or status quo plus

[1:13:17] establishing a dedicated Municipal Police Department looking at a long-term

[1:13:21] contract with an external police provider uh including both police and

[1:13:26] community service officers looking at an interim contract with an external

[1:13:31] provider for the same establishing a hybrid service model which would be an

[1:13:36] external service provider plus Municipal Power professional providers that could

[1:13:41] be the with the uh Riverside Sheriff's office or an external Municipal provider

[1:13:46] that could be done either in the interm or in the long term and finally the

[1:13:50] seven which would work with any of the above uh courses of action or Co is

[1:13:55] would be leveraging new technology and practice as part of any one of those

[1:13:59] options and the examples might be using utilizing Dr drones as a technology and

[1:14:04] practice intelligence L police so questions for

[1:14:10] consideration for the for the city council one do you do you consider

[1:14:15] creating your own Police Department if so would it be a hybrid model uh which

[1:14:20] if you recall our last briefing was employed in the city of Lancaster in Los

[1:14:24] Angeles County some good effect or a full service agency which obviously

[1:14:28] would be more costly um second to in embedd it would you embed the police

[1:14:34] department within a public safety department and would that include

[1:14:37] integrating with code enforcement Animal Control Community engagement as a

[1:14:41] function or any others and there are positive you know benefits to to that as

[1:14:46] well as drawbacks where would we focus if you

[1:14:51] were to establish your own agency the public safety uh answering point or

[1:14:56] dispatch function uh would you continue to contract with Beretta would you

[1:15:00] create your own there's another options there what would the future relationship

[1:15:04] with Riverside Sheriff's Office be and whichever way you went there's going to

[1:15:09] be a relationship with the sheriff the sheriff's a chief law enforcement

[1:15:11] officer of the county there are countywide functions that need to be

[1:15:14] provided there's a law enforcement Mutual Aid uh wherever you go they're a

[1:15:18] partner they're part of the the process what would the relationship with the U

[1:15:23] Property Owners Association contract security be if that is a key core

[1:15:28] question whichever model you go with you know to move forward and then you

[1:15:33] ultimately need to select an organizational model is it going to be

[1:15:36] your own police dedicated to hybrid uh how would you do that so moving on in

[1:15:42] our written report we put together a notional model for a county and Lake

[1:15:45] Police Department not assuming that you do it but if you were to go that way uh

[1:15:51] we we determined that previous studies indicated that the average cost of a

[1:15:55] full-time equivalent law enforcement position in a region including payroll

[1:15:59] and operational cost is approximately $210,000 per per anom using that model

[1:16:05] we determined the city could build a 12 person department for an estimated

[1:16:09] annual cost of about $2,520 th000 so it's probably in a range

[1:16:14] of possibility should you want to go there um the components of that model

[1:16:19] would be and we emphasized it um community-based policing or community

[1:16:24] policing has to be the core Foundation of what you're going to do if you're

[1:16:27] going to do this you're going to need to look at Innovative Staffing models and I

[1:16:31] think in the report we suggested some and will'll make some comments toward

[1:16:35] the end utilizing technology is going to be essential to leveraging all those

[1:16:40] capabilities one example of a practice that could help and should be integrated

[1:16:44] is crime prevention through environmental design or seped and one

[1:16:48] that I firmly believe helps you effectively allocate your resources

[1:16:52] whichever way you go is intelligence L policing

[1:16:55] which is in modern parlament being augmented with Concepts called Problem

[1:16:59] oriented policing and and uh evidence-based policing they're similar

[1:17:04] they're nuanced either way intelligence has to drive your resource allocation so

[1:17:09] what would we do community policing has to have active engagement of the

[1:17:13] community Innovative Staffing could include leveraging level one Reserve

[1:17:17] police officers who have the ability to work independently have the kep

[1:17:21] qualification through California post you could enhance with volunteers on

[1:17:26] patrol um and administrative volunteers for example LAPD has an administrative

[1:17:31] volunteer program Reserve program that's like the best in in the planet perhaps

[1:17:37] some of those things could come together law enforcement Explorer Program could

[1:17:41] be a way to leverage capability get visibility out there train a future

[1:17:45] Workforce neighborhood and business watch programs are a Hallmark of most

[1:17:50] modern policing in most cities and I think even though this a unique City

[1:17:54] there are opportun to do that as well technology drones uh both unman aerial

[1:18:00] vehicles uh or what they call uas on aerial systems could definitely be used

[1:18:06] there are options to do autonomous systems there are options to do hybrid

[1:18:11] systems that could be autonomous you could fly them out or you could control

[1:18:14] them uh they could give you uh visibility they're a nice Force

[1:18:18] multiplier Escondido down in San Diego County who's done a great job with those

[1:18:21] type of things automated license plate leaders readers or something that could

[1:18:26] be integrated within that expanded they be added to patrol Vehicles close

[1:18:31] circuit te television or video monitoring Now videos don't stop crime

[1:18:35] but they help you investigate crime and get a very good clearance rate down the

[1:18:39] down the road and that's helpful uh crime prevention through environmental

[1:18:43] design uh a core concept one of the issues that we have heard that

[1:18:48] experiences the golf carts across the railroad Canyon Road there may be design

[1:18:54] features to alleviate that problem that may mitigate some of the social uh

[1:18:58] engineering problems that you encounter intelligence LED policing I mentioned

[1:19:03] knowledge knowledge based policing problem ored policing data mining is

[1:19:08] another core component there and it's not just where your crimes have occurred

[1:19:11] and looking at hotspots is looking at who your offenders are so you can Target

[1:19:15] that offender base and try to prevent their future activity um I think that

[1:19:21] should bring us toward the end concluding we examine the the current

[1:19:25] state of law enforcement service provisioned in the city of c cany and

[1:19:28] Lake um after assessing the current contract model with service provided by

[1:19:33] Riverside Insurance's office and several alternative provision models uh we

[1:19:37] thought your options key options were retaining the current Riverside

[1:19:41] Sheriff's Office contract enhancing that contract particularly with enhanced you

[1:19:46] know one option would be enhanced accountability of deeper relationships

[1:19:50] toward guiding of you know future priorities or creating a new service

[1:19:55] model establishing a dedicated Municipal Department either full service or hybrid

[1:20:00] is is within the realm of possibility contract law enforcement may be

[1:20:04] expedient it could it could certainly do it I come from a department that created

[1:20:09] the modern contract law enforcement model in the United States it can be

[1:20:12] very very effective or it cannot and if you've seen LA County where I've come

[1:20:18] from there are questions about how effective that is for being responsive

[1:20:22] to a community's need for example on the Metro System

[1:20:25] uh so that's a question to think about if you were to contract because building

[1:20:29] a police department takes some time uh contract could be either on a long-term

[1:20:33] basis or it could be inal inum might help you get to where you want to go

[1:20:37] whichever way you choose um we do not offer a specific course of action

[1:20:44] because it's a public policy decision for the council but we do believe that

[1:20:48] establishing a dedicated Municipal Police agency is fusal the cost is there

[1:20:53] the operational potentials are there it's a decision that needs to be made

[1:20:58] and pursued with further analysis you could establish an effective uh agency

[1:21:02] either full service a hybrid um you could opt for a new contract law

[1:21:07] enforcement provider using either full service or hybrid and that could be a

[1:21:11] step to of Full Service Agency which obviously gives the highest level of

[1:21:16] accountability to your to your collected body if you do want to move forward with

[1:21:21] any of the options other than what you already have um for doing this there we'

[1:21:26] recommend a couple steps you need would need to develop a Police Service

[1:21:30] implementation plan that would have to identify specific details and articulate

[1:21:34] an implementation timetable how long you want to do it and what you

[1:21:39] know what are battles you want to implement the steps you'd have to

[1:21:43] recruit personnel and that's going to be for any law enforcement agency your

[1:21:46] highest cost and your highest area of risk uh particularly establishing a

[1:21:50] chief officer and Command Staff uh acquiring you know facilities and

[1:21:55] vehicles material development of policies and procedures you can't just

[1:21:59] cut and paste one from somewhere else that never works anywhere although

[1:22:03] people continue to try um you know so those are your options um I will say

[1:22:09] that what in our offering the options we're not being critical of any agency

[1:22:13] I'll will tell you that ride Sheriff's Office deputy sheriff's there are

[1:22:17] professionals I've worked with them over the last 35 40 years they certainly are

[1:22:22] but the question comes to what level of accountability and responsib this best

[1:22:27] needs meets the needs of the city uh as we've talked in the past there is no one

[1:22:33] right answer no one size fits all and sometimes it changes you know so the the

[1:22:39] question is there if you do move forward you're going to need to do a really

[1:22:43] detailed cost analysis really flesh it out and then think of putting together a

[1:22:48] transition team whatever happens the sheriff is a partner um I was a career

[1:22:54] deputy Sheriff uh elected law enforcement officials have strengths um

[1:22:59] but the world is changing there's reasons people out to leave this the

[1:23:04] county and create you know create cities and there reasons for uh for those

[1:23:09] models whatever you do there's going to need to be ongoing uh funding stream and

[1:23:14] there are possibilities and if I to do the implementation study I look at

[1:23:18] Economic Development as part of that um the city manager we discuss those

[1:23:23] possibilities off that has to be part of it you know policing isn't separate from

[1:23:27] governance it's a intrical part of that so that's our presentation U myself and

[1:23:32] uh Mr Rodriguez for available for any questions you may have and I apologize

[1:23:37] for the snaap who with the mic to [Music]

[1:23:43] Stu any

[1:23:47] questions there a lot of

[1:23:50] information well there's a lot there uh the written report covers in a bit more

[1:23:55] detail I hope you can hear there has more detail and obviously if you were to

[1:24:00] go down any road toward implementation U obviously detailed implementation study

[1:24:06] would need to be conducted and that would be developed in uh conjunction

[1:24:10] with the city manager his staff and obviously your county consultation f um

[1:24:15] I got a few questions um thank you for the presentation uh we appreciate the

[1:24:19] followup especially the way that the two of you decided to break up this

[1:24:23] conversation I think last month we looked at the data and the statistics

[1:24:27] and now we looked at um a different approach of Alternatives in your

[1:24:32] research um there had to been some common denominators if you must in

[1:24:37] regards to whether it's call time or types of calls or types of service that

[1:24:43] we need in your experience do you believe that um what's lacking in Canyon

[1:24:49] Lake is a consistent presence or is it is it the system that we current L have

[1:24:55] that's maybe causing some of the issues what kind of feedback did your research

[1:24:59] tell you on the needs and wants of what you think from the law enforcement

[1:25:02] standpoint Canyon Lake is needing that's a complicated question with no easy

[1:25:06] answer but I will say that given the the cost that you're that you're paying um

[1:25:14] you could for the same amount of money or not too much more money in has the

[1:25:19] level of coverage um and there are ways to do that flexibly um I think having

[1:25:26] you know there's not a lot of crime in kindy like um that's that's a good thing

[1:25:30] I'm not going to say it's a bad thing I look at the stats here uh when I was a

[1:25:34] Watch Commander in LA county I had weeks that we had more crime you know um I had

[1:25:38] more admin investigations of my Personnel than you guys are doing that's

[1:25:43] good you don't want crime um having full-time supervision out there is is

[1:25:49] valuable I think the model good support having depending upon how you staff it

[1:25:53] 12 Staffing uh 12-hour models you might be able to get a a field supervisor out

[1:25:59] there in addition to a police officer regularly um I think you could enhance

[1:26:04] the number of people with you know using reserves and reserves don't always have

[1:26:09] to be paid they're what models depending upon what you negotiate you don't have a

[1:26:13] union here but what you negotiate you could probably pay them as well um I

[1:26:18] think you could get more coverage I don't think the quality of coverage

[1:26:21] you're getting is bad I mean it's certainly a professional police agency

[1:26:25] they're responsive they understand your needs so I'm not critiquing the

[1:26:29] professionalism of any of my peer agencies I'm saying that there may be

[1:26:33] more costeffective models into the future that can be more accountable to

[1:26:38] to the city council and may be more responsive to the to the residents but

[1:26:42] that's to be determined and I think a further study could look at each one of

[1:26:46] those options at greater death we did a very quick Deep dive over a couple month

[1:26:52] period myself and my uh partner um Mr Rodriguez have a pretty deep level of

[1:26:58] experience in law enforcement and I've helped build several contract models for

[1:27:03] LA County including one that's in current times being

[1:27:09] reconsidered in establishing their own police agency and I'm not going to

[1:27:13] second guess the Board of Supervisors and the Metro board it's their ultimate

[1:27:18] responsibility but as they move forward I would tell them what I'm going to tell

[1:27:22] you is do a really good detail assessment will get what it means to

[1:27:26] yourself talk to your city manager talk to the residents the residents have to

[1:27:31] be part of the consultation facultative process so obviously you're the decision

[1:27:34] makers policy makers but as you know getting Buy in from the community is

[1:27:39] essential and that's under community policing but I think more resources um

[1:27:44] and a more intense focused responsiveness to to your governing

[1:27:49] board would probably be achieved could be achieved but it could be achieved

[1:27:52] through you know ifying your contract as well you know or your own agency the

[1:27:57] hybrid model in Lancaster got the best of both worlds they didn't get rid of

[1:28:01] the sheriff's contract they added a directed Patrol capability on top of

[1:28:06] that with a municipal agency to enhance the level of coverage you know so that's

[1:28:11] why a I think a more detailed study could help you better understand what

[1:28:16] what works best for you we don't currently have csos do you

[1:28:21] see any kind of value any including them here I think csl's give you some some

[1:28:27] flexibility you know community service officers uh are used throughout the

[1:28:33] United States they're used in in Great Britain for example for non highrisk

[1:28:38] calls for report calls you know the you know the reports you know afterwards of

[1:28:44] burglaries or vehicle thefts that don't put somebody at risk to use them for uh

[1:28:49] helping do traffic control and in the current environment where some people

[1:28:52] are skeptical of of the police for some lower level uh ordinance uh infraction

[1:28:59] you know or civil uh citation processes similar to what you know Code

[1:29:04] Enforcement Officers use I think they give you flexibility um there are

[1:29:08] civilian investigators that could do some of those things you don't need to

[1:29:12] be a sworn peace officer with the you know the incredibly you know beneficial

[1:29:17] retirement all the copil we love that part of it but the cost is is high I

[1:29:21] think community service officers uh some EMP professionals can can help be part

[1:29:26] of the model that moves forward but of course that could be done in a hybrid

[1:29:30] model or could be negotiated with your current provider as well but csls give

[1:29:35] you flexibility thank

[1:29:39] you yes understanding that the 2.5 million

[1:29:44] is an estimate what's not included in that well obviously big question well

[1:29:51] obviously um you know acts of God you know disasters things that you don't

[1:29:57] know that are going to bring greater you know demand Employee Service those occur

[1:30:01] um for is probably considering that as an issue right now certainly with the

[1:30:06] enhanced risk of Wildland fire and other things so increased demand either in an

[1:30:12] extremist capability or should the population grow if you were to incor you

[1:30:17] know Annex unincorporated area that would change that those cost figures um

[1:30:23] if the sheriff and a board of supervisor of the County of Riverside decide to

[1:30:28] change their cost model because they want you know or their liability risk

[1:30:33] pull figures don't work out right that could drive up the cost of of policing

[1:30:38] those you know those things are volatile but they're usually not short-term

[1:30:42] volatile okay but but there is always Vol viability in a provision of

[1:30:46] government service did did that include startup

[1:30:50] costs or was that a this is what the costing would be for personnel that's

[1:30:56] what the costing would be for personnel the bulk of your equipment the startup

[1:31:00] cost shouldn't be great I mean there's going to be a cost to an additional

[1:31:02] study and I suspect it would be greater than for the initial police service

[1:31:07] assessment we did now because it would be great higher level of effort more

[1:31:12] work you'd have to negotiate the terms I mean there's there's more moving part of

[1:31:16] the implementation but the implementation costs shouldn't double

[1:31:21] that but there there'll be implementation costs

[1:31:24] can you elaborate a little bit on technology you spoke about drones yeah

[1:31:28] other Technologies and what I find intriguing about that is it kind of

[1:31:33] increases your presence would that be a correct yeah well it could it can

[1:31:39] increase your presence U because you can make them visible although I've often

[1:31:44] told some of my colleagues when they're like we're going to put out decoys I'm

[1:31:47] like you know what the the criminal element understands the decoy if you

[1:31:52] don't wash the decoy quite car it's it's dusty it ain't going

[1:31:56] to work um cameras there are people who think we're going to put a camera up

[1:32:00] it's going to stop crime cameras don't prevent crime they do enhance your you

[1:32:05] know improve your clearance rate which in the long term you know helps has

[1:32:09] theer effect can incarcerate the people who need to be um they can provide

[1:32:14] visibility they can provide enhanced sensing and that's probably the best

[1:32:18] thing because the most important thing I think and I was spent bulk of my police

[1:32:22] career doing intelligence so I favor this so there's a bias on what you know

[1:32:27] but good information allows you to make better decisions and if I could

[1:32:31] understand the risk I can understand um where the crimes are occurring I can

[1:32:35] understand the actors are committing the crimes I can understand the spatial

[1:32:39] Dimension you know the hot spots are they there what time these things are

[1:32:43] occurring I can calibrate my response I can get out get ahead of it um using the

[1:32:49] drones are incredibly powerful they s you can put cameras on them you can put

[1:32:56] uh infrared devices you can put motion sensors you can put chemical sensors um

[1:33:01] automated license plate readers and obviously those are not unknown here but

[1:33:07] they can be placed on vehicles they can help you search things they can help you

[1:33:10] see things develop patterns um you tie all those things together um and you can

[1:33:17] push them out right now uh onto an edge device so all these things can be pushed

[1:33:22] out to a you could monitor those yourself if you were someone call a city

[1:33:27] manager although I would hope that you rely upon your command staff and your

[1:33:31] field supervisors but you would have the ability to look at that when needed and

[1:33:35] you will have times when you want to know and what to need for accountability

[1:33:39] so it can help you get a better decision-making platform and that's the

[1:33:42] real core because the one thing and I've told this to more than one Sheriff more

[1:33:46] than one mayor it's not just low cost it's not efficiency is not just cost

[1:33:53] efficiency is Effectiveness as operations as well so sometimes paying a

[1:33:56] little more if you're getting better quality responsive service is worth it

[1:34:00] because you get what you pay for right but you need to calibrate that with your

[1:34:04] with your means capability that's why we thought you have the foundation to

[1:34:08] support more if you want the thing is you don't just want to blindly put out

[1:34:13] more visibility because there's a concept called over fortification if you

[1:34:17] put a lot of cops out there their Public's like why do we have all these

[1:34:20] cops so you have to be subtle right that's why I talking about business

[1:34:23] ability has times when it's really good and there are times like when you want

[1:34:27] to be really covert and be quiet and you have to you have to Command Decision on

[1:34:32] how you do that and again there's no one right answer because it's operational

[1:34:36] art not science but the better information you have the better artist

[1:34:40] you can be um in your when you're looking at you

[1:34:45] know our call volume and the type of calls that we're receiving here in

[1:34:48] Canyon Lake um you know the the sheriff's department um I'm a huge

[1:34:53] advate for the sheriff's department what they do their model is very unique

[1:34:57] though in regards to covering different areas and would you would you agree or

[1:35:02] disagree that if we had our own Standalone Department that response

[1:35:07] times would be decreased because we're not you know jumping over to Lake Elenor

[1:35:12] or to Paris or some of these other areas that we currently are having our Deputy

[1:35:16] go to back up type one calls that's a really complicated question and one I

[1:35:21] think it's good to I'm done asking questions cuz they're

[1:35:24] no no no no I'm not no I'm just qualifying because I'm going to give you

[1:35:28] a straight answer but there's going to be contingency one is yes more presence

[1:35:33] should reduce your your response time so if you had two professional police

[1:35:38] officers out there on you know all three shifts that it's rather than one that

[1:35:44] should lower response time depending upon whether you put them in a two

[1:35:47] person car or one person car um depending upon what's happening at that

[1:35:51] period of time um during the day shift where you do a lot of you know report

[1:35:57] calls having a CSO Community Service Officer out there um should free the you

[1:36:03] know I was going to say deputies have a preference over those years there could

[1:36:06] could free your officers up to be able to be more flexible to respond so the

[1:36:10] first plus plus uh prey answer would be yes it should improve that but not all

[1:36:17] the time not every time because there's going to be surge periods um you know

[1:36:22] and putting more cops out initially could give you what appears to be more

[1:36:25] crime because you may be sensing more crime there may be leakage now right cuz

[1:36:31] remember reporting crime is only part of it that's why when you want to do it

[1:36:34] well you look at victimization stats as well and they're collected in a

[1:36:37] different pool than your uniform crime reports and you should look at both and

[1:36:42] I found that when you do intelligence assessments there's stuff that don't get

[1:36:44] any either U but in generally yes you could get greater coverage should

[1:36:50] improve your response times good response times are important part of the

[1:36:55] thing is you want to have the good response times for the crimes that

[1:36:58] needed not every report call needs a cop there in three minutes right so you set

[1:37:03] expectations some things you can take reports on the internet on you know

[1:37:07] create apps and then for some property crimes that may be even more acceptable

[1:37:11] to the public um I think you know and it maybe it's generational a lot of police

[1:37:18] agencies now don't respond to non non-injury traffic collisions and they

[1:37:23] leave people on their own I that's never been the model with the police agency I

[1:37:28] came from LA County Sher respond to all and if another agency won't take we'll

[1:37:32] go take I think that's got value but you have to balance that with the realistic

[1:37:37] expectation of the community in your need but yeah you should I think the key

[1:37:43] is you could conceptually get not only better response time I think you get

[1:37:48] tighter supervision because I think you could afford dedicated supervision

[1:37:52] dedicated supervision deputies Deputy sheriffs and cops do a good job most of

[1:37:58] them don't choose this profession because they want to be Slackers but you

[1:38:02] know good managers good commanders make sure they always do good work you know

[1:38:07] so I think you get more accountability um that doesn't take away

[1:38:12] a relationship from the sheriff if you went there cuz you're not going to

[1:38:15] create your own homicide you you not going to have your own robbery

[1:38:18] detectives uh you know not going to create your own slat team that's I hope

[1:38:22] not you know you know own hostage Rescue Team you know and there special like bom

[1:38:27] Squad you're not going to create those um so there's going to be an ongoing

[1:38:32] whatever you do whatever model the Riverside Sheriff's Office is going to

[1:38:36] be a partner in policing for this community forever so how you manage that

[1:38:41] is important uh but I I think there's flexibility there's options the benefit

[1:38:48] isn't so much on the provision because the public doesn't I doesn't understand

[1:38:52] the difference between a deputy sheriff and employees officers they don't know

[1:38:55] the difference between Authority they don't know what the uniform looks like

[1:38:58] they don't know the difference between sworn and non sworn they don't like some

[1:39:02] people love cops some don't what the public will recognize is when you're

[1:39:07] responsive to their need and ultimately mean policing isn't political but I

[1:39:15] warned in my life everything's political and when it comes to that that's you

[1:39:19] guys so providing accountability responsibility to yourself is probably

[1:39:23] your most important consideration next is responsiveness to the community and

[1:39:28] the third is you know a good professional Public

[1:39:32] Safety police presence which not only for police it has to integrate with your

[1:39:37] the P you know Property Owners Association contract security and I

[1:39:41] think that's something that would have to be worked on whatever model is there

[1:39:44] and it has to work with their Partners in the fire service Emergency Medical

[1:39:48] Services and I don't know what your model on Emergency Management is but

[1:39:52] it's going to have to in that as well because policing isn't just crime it's

[1:39:56] entire Community safety but in partnership with all those other

[1:40:00] pieces so I wasn't blowing you off by sending questions for hard just I don't

[1:40:05] do sound bites yeah appreciate it

[1:40:10] okay any other questions we have any questions

[1:40:15] from we have any questions from the residents may we do not okay uh can we

[1:40:23] go go ahead and receive and file this report no votes needed no vote is needed

[1:40:27] okay thank you thank you so much thank you so much thank you very

[1:40:36] much okay moving on to item seven update regarding the council chambers

[1:40:41] renovation project allocation Capital funds for the project and considering

[1:40:45] the award of change order for phase two um presentation by director borad

[1:40:54] good evening mayor mayor PM city council city manager Aaron Brown

[1:41:00] congratulations um I am bringing forward an update regarding our progress with

[1:41:05] our renovation project talk a little bit about some allocations that we're asking

[1:41:10] for as part of that project and then talk a little bit about the

[1:41:15] consideration of awarding for phase two as well um as you know since August of

[1:41:22] 26 I we started to our construction project for our new council chambers

[1:41:28] anti chamber and break room progress has been exceptional tremendous I don't know

[1:41:35] how better explain the the workmanship the

[1:41:39] communication we have had with lob's construction um um the work that we've

[1:41:44] done the progress of where we're at with the council chamber room uh with some of

[1:41:49] the finishes that we're already at right now uh the progress that at the

[1:41:53] antichamber room and and the break room uh everything is moving well ahead of

[1:41:59] plann uh I know we had a sort of a deadline to meet of December 6 I think

[1:42:04] we're going to meet that relatively pretty easily uh I can't give a date or

[1:42:09] time because you know I don't want to change the situation so uh right now

[1:42:14] everything's just moving extremely extremely quickly forward um during um

[1:42:22] during as a project has been moving forward one of the one of the things

[1:42:27] that we we've found was that uh um we needed to provide exceptional backup or

[1:42:36] a generator to be able to facilitate uh uh outages if and when

[1:42:43] they do occur or more importantly in a disaster situation as government

[1:42:48] employees as a as a city hall we are sort of obligated as disaster service

[1:42:54] workers to be able to maintain operation and help and provide um our support to

[1:43:01] our First Responders when those type of situations do happen KN on what they

[1:43:06] never do they haven't since I have been here so hopefully that never does happen

[1:43:09] but it's important that we have a generation that we maintain operational

[1:43:13] at all times I can tell you one instance where power did go out here I I don't

[1:43:19] recall how long that it did go out for but being non-operational for for a city

[1:43:25] is is not acceptable so uh it's really really important in addition to to the

[1:43:30] need for for this generator to as well um as you know we're looking into phase

[1:43:36] two of this project and moving Administration staff over into our our

[1:43:41] new location um as well too the generator will help facilitate not just

[1:43:47] City Hall but that that building as well so it's important to maintain as much

[1:43:53] operational as we can for everyone that's kind of here um and that kind of

[1:43:57] leads me into um into phase two um as you know we had some of our challenges

[1:44:05] early on with um with our informal bids for for our

[1:44:10] contractors um with with how exceptional things have been going with Lowe's

[1:44:16] construction um to me it only makes sense for us to look at uh an

[1:44:22] opportunity to to uh utilize uh L's construction into phase two of this

[1:44:28] project um I think back in April when we adopted or approved the updated uh

[1:44:33] procurement uh procedures uh it did allow us to uh

[1:44:38] expedite some of those some of those needs in cases like this so um that that

[1:44:45] does lead into you know us looking to give that local desire to our our our

[1:44:51] construction uh loow construction and requesting that city council authorize

[1:44:56] the city manag to negotiate and execute all purchasing purchasing agreements and

[1:45:01] contracts in order to carry on to phase two of this project

[1:45:06] to questions I don't have a question but I have a

[1:45:11] comment um it's great to hear that it's working out so well with one of our

[1:45:17] Canyon Lake residents and I know he takes tremendous pride in creating

[1:45:23] our city hall in his home so I love

[1:45:30] that I would happily work with low construction for every project we have

[1:45:35] we're very very fortunate that he is a local um because I will when this is

[1:45:42] done I'll I'll brag to every city around that if if they want somebody to take

[1:45:47] care of a job like this we we know who to send it to that's awesome

[1:45:53] mayor if I could add to that um it it's exciting to come to you and even say

[1:46:00] that we're talking about phase two because the original plan really was

[1:46:04] about phase one and so when we identified the need for the

[1:46:09] generator um setting and and talking to uh Terry Shay our finance director those

[1:46:16] funds make sense coming from our CIP that is capital Improvement it's there

[1:46:21] for Ian the the life of that thing um Chief and I have both probably seen them

[1:46:26] go 40 years or more um but they say on paper they last 20 years um so to have

[1:46:34] something like that one of the things that's not mentioned in here that I'll

[1:46:37] be bringing either in a uh midyear or uh in the next budget is

[1:46:44] adding something like starlink so that in the event that we had a true outage

[1:46:49] here where the power is out the power is lost on some of our suppliers we would

[1:46:54] have Everything But Water available at uh and I mean running water um we' have

[1:47:01] everything but running water available that we we would have control over we'd

[1:47:04] have control over that generator we'd have control over the ability to connect

[1:47:08] to that uh internet connectivity so in in terms of service we wouldn't care

[1:47:14] we'd be open for business and just keep rocking so this is a very important

[1:47:18] thing in terms of what's called survivability but just means the ability

[1:47:22] to keep your business running dayto day it' be a huge asset to our residents as

[1:47:26] well in case there was a catastrophe

[1:47:31] absolutely if I may mayor um can you give a little bit more detail where

[1:47:39] the initial funds came from um for this renovation because I think that's an

[1:47:44] extraordinary story in itself and uh you know how we have been good stewards of

[1:47:51] that money and how we are extending that uh greater beyond what we initially

[1:47:57] thought absolutely so the city received arpa funds like uh most other cities and

[1:48:04] uh responsibly put that towards upgrading uh Public Safety uh upgrading

[1:48:11] infrastructure Public Safety what was allocated from those arpa funds was

[1:48:14] about $1.2 million uh in getting the drawings and

[1:48:19] going through What's called the the uh Engineers estimate this is how much we

[1:48:24] think it's going to be the initial estimate was $1.2 Million for what is

[1:48:29] phase one uh the team and I sat down and fortunate to have um Mike and uh our

[1:48:37] city clerk Cheryl Jessica and uh David our uh building official we sat down and

[1:48:42] said what do we need what do we not need um specifying things like you you see

[1:48:48] these TVs in front of you this is a perfect example those TVs are the same

[1:48:52] TV that you would buy at home so when you spec a commercial TV those TVs would

[1:48:57] be somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to $12,000 a piece and that's because

[1:49:02] they are rated to be on for 3 years 24 hours a day I do not plan to be in a

[1:49:09] city council meeting for three years for 24 hours of those days so it doesn't

[1:49:15] make sense for us to go to that kind of Taj Mahal model and so we really looked

[1:49:21] at what we could do to get more for that money and I I'm so

[1:49:28] proud of the team that we were able to figure out a way to take that 1.2

[1:49:32] million and instead of just doing phase one and phase two was a almost like a

[1:49:37] dream someday we're gonna we've got a way here that we're going to get phase

[1:49:42] one and phase two completely done for I mean I'm not going to say it's

[1:49:47] free because as taxpayers we all paid this money into the federal taxes but

[1:49:52] it's not coming out of what was the general fund money from from the city it

[1:49:56] is the money that was provided to the city to be able to do things like this

[1:50:00] and we are happily getting a lot of value out of that money and as a result

[1:50:06] Phase One cost approximately

[1:50:10] 700 below budget that wellem about uh $585,000 budget and we went through

[1:50:18] phase two and we looked at everything of okay if we move this wall and not that

[1:50:23] wall what does that save um we we walked with the uh the fire chief been

[1:50:29] extremely helpful because he's also our fire marshal he has about 17 jobs so uh

[1:50:34] he walked with us and kind of gave us this is what you need to do this is this

[1:50:38] is a way to get what you need done um been just instrumental in how we solve

[1:50:44] some of those problems and still maintain our requirement for Life Safety

[1:50:48] so we've not taken any shortcuts or anything along that line it's really

[1:50:52] really just been how do we how do we save money and everybody knows it is

[1:50:57] value engineering so that leaves us

[1:51:01] approximately $570,000 to go towards Phase 2

[1:51:06] approximately 570 that's correct uh we think based on what we're we're looking

[1:51:12] at because we would have if Council Awards us the ability to do this we

[1:51:16] would award that change order then we've got some minor things like data and uh

[1:51:21] we've got uh Johnson controls would need to move over our um uh access control

[1:51:27] system uh minor things like that that will fit in we're estimating somewhere

[1:51:31] around1 to $15,000 remaining and we still got phase one and phase two

[1:51:36] completed and we're saving approximately $40,000 by moving our staff correct a

[1:51:42] little over $43,000 a year will be saved by moving this I cannot be more happy

[1:51:47] yeah I know that as a council that we have you know when I first came on

[1:51:51] Council my good friend here uh really pushed me to make this happen um was

[1:51:57] constantly asking me as well as uh councilwoman Castillo what is the

[1:52:02] progress and uh I cannot commend you enough

[1:52:07] for jumping on this as quick as you did being as productive with this project as

[1:52:13] quick as you did and to to Mike I know this is a dream of yours and it's

[1:52:17] finally coming true Cheryl I know you were involved uh from the very very

[1:52:22] beginning beginning and um you know on behalf of this Council but more

[1:52:26] importantly on behalf of the residents of Canyon Lake thank you very much and

[1:52:30] we're looking forward to getting U councilwoman DNE on that di before she

[1:52:35] leaves us so I know that's a big goal as well that is absolutely the goal AB goal

[1:52:41] very good goal good job and and to make sure we're clear about the the generator

[1:52:45] the generator process unfortunately um is not a a quick process purchasing the

[1:52:52] generator piece of cake uh we fall under uh the

[1:52:56] SoCal uh region of AQMD we have to go through that process get the get the

[1:53:02] permit completed and um once they give us the thumbs up that we can go forward

[1:53:06] with it it'll be there but the generator will be there long before we have the

[1:53:10] permission to do it but there happens to be natural gas right by that generator

[1:53:15] which as you know in this city is hard to come by uh it just lined up perfectly

[1:53:20] a natural gas generator generates far less pollutants than a diesel generator

[1:53:25] so it's actually an easier process cool that's huge that's awesome good up great

[1:53:31] job Mike good job guys I I think it's wonderful because when we early looked

[1:53:35] at this early on and we had you know dreams about getting all this done and

[1:53:39] we we saw some of the initial price estimates we're thinking well maybe 2034

[1:53:44] will we can save our nickels and we can get this done and to see this coming in

[1:53:49] complete phase two included early 2025 is amazing to me and it's just it's

[1:53:55] wonderful to to see something that's going to be so great for the community

[1:53:59] and something we're not going to sit in this council chambers and for the next

[1:54:02] four years go it's coming it's coming it's coming no it's going to be um we're

[1:54:07] going to tell you it's coming in in just a couple months so thank you very much

[1:54:12] you and then Mike and Dave and chief Cheryl thank you a year a year ago today

[1:54:19] you know we never would have thought phase two was even in the picture so

[1:54:23] look where we're at right now you guys remember how far away we were 6 months

[1:54:28] ago oh yeah like it wasn't even real it was PR actually be honest with you

[1:54:33] actual plan I remember when I got here Mike we were talking about it I'm like

[1:54:38] it's easy we got this and he said Aon it's not easy it's easy we we just need

[1:54:43] to do the job and we're we're happy to do it and when you have a partner in a

[1:54:48] vendor like low construction for us it's easy I have

[1:54:52] swung a hammer good job that's that itself is

[1:54:58] the mayor May a couple of us Swang this swung the sledgehammer you did Madam

[1:55:03] clerk if there's no public comments I'll make a motion if the mayor will let me

[1:55:08] absolutely I second it R roll

[1:55:16] call council member Castillo hi council member D hi council member Smith mayor

[1:55:21] Pro Temp hi May w i just one quick pass there's no public comments on this right

[1:55:26] there are no public comments okay all right

[1:55:32] wonderful city manager

[1:55:36] comments the first one is I I cannot be more thankful for the opportunity

[1:55:42] that has been uh placed in front of me and I say it again uh to have a staff uh

[1:55:49] like we do here A True Team um you don't ever see a a

[1:55:56] sports um Team have their coach have their contract renewed with an O and

[1:56:02] anything record so we're winning because of them and um

[1:56:09] I I probably should be careful because it sounds like drinks on me so um but I

[1:56:14] I think they're welld deserved with that team so thank you very much again

[1:56:20] awesome okay uh the next regular city council meeting

[1:56:26] will be held on November 13th 2024 and upon that we will

[1:56:36] adourn a 26 826

October 9, 2024 City Council Meeting

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