[0:00] Okay, everybody, it's six o'clock. We're going to call this meeting to order. Clerk, please call roll.

[0:08] Commissioner Hernandez. Here. Commissioner Mendes is absent. Commissioner wait is absent. Vice chair, crews.

[0:16] Here. Chair, Blair. Here.

[0:20] Tonight, the pledge of allegiance will be led by Commissioner Hernandez.

[0:30] ready begin. I pledge allegiance to the United States of America and to the Republic for which

[0:39] it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

[0:57] We kind of

[0:58] revise this, huh? Okay. The commission may only add an item to the agenda after making a

[1:06] finding that there is a need to take a immediate action on the item and that the item

[1:11] can or came to the attention of the agency subsequent to the posting of the agenda.

[1:17] An action adding an item to the agenda requires a majority vote of the commission.

[1:24] Clerk, if any of you still have staff members requested an item?

[1:29] We have no request.

[1:31] Commissioners would you like to add any items?

[1:34] Not at this time.

[1:35] Thank you.

[1:37] Okay.

[1:37] We'd like to solicit the vote.

[1:39] No vote is required.

[1:42] Moving on to item five.

[1:45] The first one, the item, the first item is 5.1, monthly police department, update, presented by Lieutenant Ball,

[1:52] a suicide sheriff's office.

[1:56] Good evening, Commission.

[1:57] So if I can turn your attention to the crime and data statistics for the city of Eastville,

[2:01] We can look at the July report, that'll sum up both July and June, just to turn your attention

[2:09] to a few of the numbers.

[2:11] So aggravated assaults, we did have an uptick in July with 15 compared to June in

[2:17] 8.

[2:18] And it's slightly above our previous year's numbers.

[2:22] We also had an increase in commercial thefts in the month of June.

[2:26] we had 10, and then it increased significantly to 52 in the month of July.

[2:33] If we go down to total violent crimes, we had a decrease from June with 4 to 2 in July,

[2:42] so we did go down by a couple for the aggravated, sorry, the robberies, and then aggravated

[2:48] assaults.

[2:49] We were at 15 for the month of July, whereas we had 8 in the month of June, so a little

[2:54] of an uptake on the aggravated assault.

[2:58] If we go down to the calls for service box in male theft, our male theft has continued

[3:04] to decrease.

[3:06] We had one reported call in July, one reported call in June, which is a substantial decrease

[3:13] from the same months, the previous year.

[3:17] And then for felony arrests, we had 15 felony arrests in the month of July, and we had 11

[3:22] in the month of June, a misdemeanor rest. We had 25 in the month of July and 39 in the month

[3:28] of June. And it was all adults that were arrested for both months, no juveniles arrested,

[3:36] 40 arrests in July and 50 in June.

[3:43] And then if I can turn your attention to the monthly report,

[3:46] we can look at the June 2026 report first if you can. Collisions we had 38

[3:54] accidents with no injuries, 7 accidents with injuries, and 0 traffic fatalities.

[4:00] Total of 7 hit and runs with no injuries, 1 with an injury, and we had 9 DUI arrests or

[4:07] citations, and then 25 sites for excessive speed or street racing.

[4:16] In the month of June on June 30, several arrests were made during the picnic in the park event.

[4:21] Those arrests included a battery, a drunken public, and obstructing or resisting a peace officer.

[4:27] And then on June 23, 25, the Eastville Special Enforcement team, along with the Eastville Traffic Team,

[4:34] conducted an e-bike operation that resulted in six e-motors being towed and stored, six citations for driving

[4:41] without a driver's license, one citation for tampering or modifying an electric bicycle,

[4:46] at one citation which was issued to a parent for knowingly permitting a child under 18 years old to drive a motor vehicle upon a highway.

[4:55] And those were the significant incidents in the month of...

[5:00] June, if I can turn your attention to the July monthly report.

[5:06] We had 42 accidents with no injuries.

[5:10] We had four accidents with injuries and again zero traffic collisions with fatalities. We had

[5:16] nine hit and runs with no injuries. We had zero with injuries. We had a total of seven D.O.I.

[5:22] arrests and we had 35 citations for excessive speed or street racing. And then as far as

[5:30] operations on July 1st, the traffic team conducted an operation throughout the city of Eastville,

[5:36] which resulted in 19 citations for sign and signal violations and eight speed citations. And then

[5:44] July 10th, the traffic team conducted a DUI enforcement operation, which resulted in one

[5:49] DUI arrest and 11 citations for various other traffic incidents.

[5:57] And then last but not least, the traffic collision map, the hotspot map.

[6:06] Both months are tracking relatively the same.

[6:11] So from August, or I'm sorry, from April to June, there were a total of 77 traffic collisions.

[6:19] The day that we have the most traffic collisions during that timeframe was on Monday.

[6:24] And the most traffic collisions occurred between eight in the morning and noon followed up by noon to 4 p.m.

[6:33] And then for May 1st to July 31st, we had a total of 73 traffic collisions.

[6:41] Again, with Monday being our busiest day for the traffic collisions and the predominant hours for the traffic collisions for that timeframe was from noon to 4 p.m.

[6:53] follow-up by from 4pm to 8pm.

[6:57] And all that is reflective in the hotspot maps.

[7:01] And I'm available for any questions.

[7:05] Thanks, Elty, for that report.

[7:07] Just a quick question, regards to the e-bike.

[7:11] When you do site, do you stat those under traffic moving?

[7:16] So as of right now, the city council just passed the e-bike

[7:21] ordinance, so that hasn't gone live yet.

[7:23] should be going live in roughly two, two and a half weeks.

[7:27] And so for right now, it's all vehicle code violations,

[7:29] we're either citing for being an unlicensed driver,

[7:32] 1,500 of the vehicle code, or 4,000 A1 being an unregistered vehicle.

[7:38] And then once the ordinance goes live,

[7:41] we will actually be citing for both.

[7:43] So we'll be issuing administrative sites for the ordinance.

[7:46] And then we'll also be issuing vehicle code violation sites.

[7:51] Thank you.

[7:52] You're welcome.

[7:53] Let me just piggyback off of that question also.

[7:57] You mentioned unlicensed drivers with the e-bikes.

[8:01] Are they required to be insured drivers as well?

[8:06] Yes, so they do have to be motors.

[8:09] They have to be insured motorists.

[8:11] But obviously the bikes that we're targeting are the e-motor cycles or the e-motos,

[8:17] which it's illegal to be operating on those on the roadway anyway.

[8:20] But yes, in theory they all have to be ensured motorists, but they don't even possess

[8:28] in most cases the driver's licenses.

[8:33] Thank you.

[8:36] I have one and it's probably going to be an opinion from you.

[8:40] However, we saw almost a five time uptick in a commercial theft from June to July.

[8:46] Any kind of ideas or what made that happen?

[8:53] I don't have any ideas in what made that happen.

[8:56] Our special enforcement team has been increasing our operations,

[9:00] as far as the organized retail theft,

[9:02] because we were obviously seeing that uptick in the numbers.

[9:05] And so we recently did another organized retail theft operation,

[9:09] which I'll be speaking about at our next meeting,

[9:12] because it's not covered in this timeframe.

[9:14] So we did notice that there was that uptick.

[9:17] We're obviously trying to get the information out

[9:19] to business owners to contact us, increase their security, increase their surveillance camera

[9:25] footage, and their abilities, and that way, ultimately, if these thefts do occur once

[9:31] the reports are written, we can get that information to our investigators, two of whom are

[9:36] in the back of the room, and that way, then we can affect the arrests, or if our special enforcement

[9:40] team is made aware, and we can work that up without it going to investigators,

[9:49] then we

[9:49] right around the corner and you know seeing numbers kind of like that kind of start

[9:53] is looking worrisome.

[9:56] And the benefit is obviously in in some of those cases we will have.

[10:00] The extra duty, so we'll have deputies who are on-scene, patrolling the parking lots during those

[10:06] holiday hours. We have quite a few of the businesses who support that. And so generally our numbers

[10:13] stay a little bit lower because there is that increased law enforcement presence. And so typically

[10:18] when people see law enforcement is in the area or in the parking lot, they're less apt to

[10:23] comment those crimes.

[10:30] All right.

[10:30] The next item is item 5.2, the monthly fire of date.

[10:35] Presented by Kyle Chief of White of Cal Fire.

[10:40] Good evening, Chair and commissioners.

[10:42] Try to do some little updates for your stats here.

[10:47] So we're going to go over July stats.

[10:50] So last, last in July, we had 365 incidents citywide.

[10:55] Notably, 277 medical aids, we had one commercial fire of the traffic collisions.

[11:01] My partner over here talked about.

[11:03] We responded to 26 of those, a couple of vehicle fires in a wild and fire, a breakdown

[11:08] of your responses by the equipment.

[11:11] In June 27, Rantuner 10 calls, the squad was at 213.

[11:15] We do have a water tinder that's county funded that went out on seven responses and our

[11:22] the engine 31 on a Chandler went to 161 calls.

[11:27] So a couple of significant events that's

[11:29] going to tie in with our presentation here, momentarily.

[11:34] So we had two drownings that occurred within the city

[11:38] within a few days of each other.

[11:40] So on the fifth, our Maddox responded

[11:43] to a community pool for a port of drowning

[11:44] of a seven-year-old girl who was found

[11:47] submerged by a nearby swimmer.

[11:49] The estimated some version time was more than two minutes

[11:52] by Sanders began immediate CPR prior to the arrival of our emergency personnel, our

[11:57] firefighter, our paramedics assume patient care and continue to advance resuscitation efforts,

[12:02] and the patient regains spontaneous respirations, any pulse, but did remain in critical condition,

[12:08] and was transported by air to the local pediatric trauma center for further care.

[12:15] And then on the 11th, our medics responded to reporting drowning involving one and a half

[12:19] year old child and upon arrival, our medics begin CPR and ALS procedures in an effort to

[12:26] resist state that patient. So the child was transported in critical condition, a company

[12:31] by our firefighters, and despite the extensive life saving efforts, unfortunately, the

[12:36] child did not make it.

[12:41] One highlight, our office of the fire marshals, that we're doing here as well, that's part

[12:45] your contract, our farm marshals office, the stats there, a showcase, their efforts on moving

[12:53] Eastville forward with the plan checks and the reviews and everything that they're doing

[12:58] inside of their office.

[13:00] And that's all I have for you.

[13:01] I'm available for questions.

[13:15] Thank you, Chief.

[13:17] Moving on to item 5.4, the Nick Fraud and identity theft prevention presentation presented

[13:24] by Riverside County Sheriff's Office.

[13:35] We're going to go to five point three code and monthly code enforcement department of dates.

[14:08] No worries.

[14:10] Thank you, Commission.

[14:11] I'd like to provide the monthly closest historic reports for the months of June and July, beginning with June.

[14:18] We have a total of 390 new cases, 45 citations issued,

[14:24] 363 closed cases, a total of 1,669 total inspections, and 323 current cases.

[14:32] I'd like to note that our volunteers have donated 43 hours to the department, total

[14:36] the number of 600 and 4 parking citations.

[14:41] Top 10 case topics were the month include property maintenance landscape, 70 to our parking

[14:46] violations, RV parking violations, abandoned inoperable vehicles, unpromoted abandoned

[14:52] Signage, garbage and junk in view, street sweeping enforcement,

[14:57] Visibly, trash containers, temporary.

[15:05] We have a total of 270 new cases, 57 citations issued, 329 closed cases, a total of 939 total inspections, 298 current cases.

[15:20] Our volunteers have also donated 122 hours for the month total number of parking

[15:25] citations of 250. Top 10 cases, top 10 case topics include property maintenance

[15:32] landscape, 72 hour parking violations, chunking garbage and view, trash containers

[15:37] not screen, short term rental enforcement, building code violations, street sweep and

[15:43] enforcement, trash containers left at the street, abandoned inoperable vehicles and

[15:48] be parking violations and that concludes my report and I'm open for question.

[15:59] I have a question in regards to the landscaping.

[16:02] I know a lot of times people fall short of seeing themselves maintain it when it's

[16:10] as hot as it is. Is there any grace periods for people just trying to keep up but can't

[16:19] with the current heat that we're enduring?

[16:22] Yes, there is.

[16:23] There are always this with the code enforcement team.

[16:25] We do consider the temperature as an extreme heat.

[16:28] And just a cost of trying to renovate your landscape.

[16:31] It's difficult right now with the heat.

[16:33] We always try to result to more cost-effective options.

[16:36] Like mulch, decorative rock, artificial turf,

[16:39] 50 property owners are interested in that.

[16:41] But there is definitely 30 day, 60 day grace periods

[16:44] depending on the circumstances.

[16:47] Thank you.

[16:55] Okay.

[16:55] So now we are to I fraud an identity theft prevention presented by Riverside County

[17:02] shares.

[17:12] Good evening.

[17:13] My name is Ms. Kittavick Rodriguez.

[17:15] My partner in raw dollar Tory and we'll be presenting this quickly as we can.

[17:24] So the brief overview,

[17:29] the Department of Justice defines identity theft and frauds as all

[17:32] types of crimes in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses a personal personal data

[17:37] in some way that involves fraud or deception or typically for economic gains.

[17:46] Any operation internationally makes apprehension and investigations difficult.

[17:53] Many use leading questions or use words to gain trust, so I'm using scare tactics such

[17:59] as you will be arrested, most of the use of mass IP addresses or use fake phone numbers.

[18:10] Your most impacted age groups are young adults, 20 to 29 high volume of reports, targeted

[18:15] via social media and digital marketplaces, prime work in age, 30 to 39, Council of the

[18:23] largest raw share of federal trade commissions and identity complaints.

[18:27] and senior's 80's plus lowest reported frequencies, but faces the highest medium loss

[18:34] per incident.

[18:37] As you can see there, there are the statistics for 26, and breaks it down

[18:45] by age.

[18:49] In 2025, there was 3 million reported identity

[18:52] frauds nationwide out of those 23 percent reported a monetary loss. Those 23 percent

[18:59] contributed a total net loss of 15.9 billion. That's an increase of 3.4 billion from 2024.

[19:11] And then we'll get into the types of frauds, and identity theft. One of the oldest and

[19:19] pervasive one is the IRS scam, where they claim to be IRS agents, and they try to get people

[19:27] to call in, they usually will call email or something like that.

[19:32] As we all know, the IRS does everything by mail.

[19:35] They're not going to call you or anything like that,

[19:37] but that's all they usually get these people

[19:39] is by scamming them through some other alternative other than the mail.

[19:45] Lottery, sweet-same scam.

[19:48] They call them and they say, hey, you want a lot of them,

[19:50] but we need a down payment or we need partial payments,

[19:53] so we can get you this lottery money or taxes or something like that.

[19:57] and people will fork over the money thinking that...

[20:00] They won all this other money, but ends up being a scam. The family member arrest scam is where a family member will get called.

[20:11] They say, hey, we have your nephew, Johnny, where we have him and you don't pass $5,000.

[20:18] Right now, we're going to harm him and don't get off the phone and usually they'll keep him on the line.

[20:24] have them go to a bank, make a withdraw or something, they try not to let them get off the phone

[20:31] and then once they get their money wired to them or some green dot card or something like that,

[20:37] then they let them off the hook but then the family member will find out that it was all false.

[20:44] This one seems to be a big one where a lot of people are getting scammed out right now.

[20:50] the romance, pig, butchering scam.

[20:53] It could come in different ways,

[20:55] but a lot of it starts on social media

[20:57] where somebody will be contacted,

[20:59] usually it's a male, by female.

[21:03] And they start this flirting thing,

[21:06] and they start their little relationship,

[21:09] and they build a little trust with that person,

[21:12] and then they'll eventually ask them to go to another app,

[21:16] such as WhatsApp or Telegram.

[21:18] And once they go to that app, then they start telling them about some kind of investment that they're in and how they can benefit.

[21:29] And unfortunately a lot of these people will fall into that trap, because a lot of times they'll do an initial smaller amount, say $5,000, and they do make money.

[21:40] And so then, as humanity goes, we get greedy and so then that's when they send the bigger portion and then at that point, the scammer will continue to ask for more and more money.

[21:54] And then when that person finally realized that something's up, I want to take my money out, it's gone, it's too late.

[22:00] But that happens, I don't know if you've ever been aware of you ever get a text, hey, this is also, and you're like, who's this?

[22:06] And then that's how they could do it as well.

[22:10] The home improvement scam is the contractor, or maybe a contract, and I'll be a contractor to come in.

[22:18] So either what they're going to do, ask for a down payment, turns out they're not even a contractor.

[22:24] Now your money's gone.

[22:27] Charity scam, it can be like a go-fund me.

[22:32] Something unfortunate happened to someone, and there's people out there that will take advantage of it.

[22:36] and set up their own, like, go find me or something in that nature, and then you're donating to

[22:43] who you would think is just a viable cause, but it's just a scammer.

[22:50] This, can you hear me now scam?

[22:54] This is kind of a newer one where they'll try to get you to say certain words, like yes,

[22:57] no, your name, and what they do is they use that recording later on to, like, maybe call your bank

[23:04] or insurance or something and they'll turn on your voice

[23:08] when they ask you to say something and they use that.

[23:10] So you've got to be careful when you're talking

[23:12] to these people and if you think of the scam

[23:14] just hang up on them.

[23:17] The secret mystery shopper scam,

[23:22] this is where they lure you to thinking you're gonna be a guy

[23:26] that goes out there and does the secret shopper

[23:29] but they always want something in advance for you to do it.

[23:33] usually that I saw some kind of payment for you to get involved, and then they promised

[23:38] you to get paid on the back end, and it never happens.

[23:44] The business malware ran somewhere.

[23:48] I had one of these one time in Rino Valley, it was at the water district.

[23:54] What happened was the person that was doing the scam, sent the email to the purchase agent from

[24:02] known source, but they just changes like one or two letters in the email. So that person

[24:07] automatically fulfilled the orders and it out. And that once they started looking at it,

[24:13] they noticed that it was just off by a letter. Like our department does the same with us. They

[24:19] test with all the time. They are IT department does the fish and scam with us. They'll send us an

[24:24] email like from our captain or something and you look at it and everything looks legit. But instead

[24:29] saying Riverside County, it's always Riverside Country, and so if you don't look at it

[24:35] and you open it, you get, you, you, you've been caught, you know. So people will just change

[24:40] one or two little things to make it look legit, and then you get caught up. The old computer repair

[24:47] scam, you get the pop up, and then they want you to send money to repair your computer.

[24:59] The

[25:00] They make a website that looks legitimate. They'll be Amazon return policy website, and everything

[25:08] looks legit. You click on their link and it turns out, it'll send you the page that looks like

[25:15] the actual business. But again, if you look at everything, start looking at the emails, it's

[25:21] probably going to be coming from some Gmail or some Yahoo or some place other than the actual business.

[25:29] So you just got to look out for those ATM skimmers.

[25:34] I think we're all aware of those at the gas stations and places where they will,

[25:39] but something similar on top of the keypad and you're swiping your card

[25:43] and it turns out they're actually taking your past code when you punch it in.

[25:49] That's still going on.

[25:52] Again, when small businesses, the fake invoices like I had explained

[25:55] with the water company in the Marine of Valley.

[25:58] Office applies, again, they'll send something.

[26:01] They say, hey, you purchase this and they pay it.

[26:05] It sure's nothing ever did.

[26:06] It purchased it because they don't look into it.

[26:10] Utility scams, fake checks, kind of the same thing

[26:14] with the social engineering, the ransomware.

[26:19] There was an, an assembly, you know,

[26:21] sure's they got hit with that ransomware, a few years back,

[26:24] Or they wiped out their whole data system out there for money and it cost them millions of dollars to get it all up and run it again.

[26:34] Investment, that's always a big one.

[26:38] It's always somebody that could be your bookkeeper that you trust.

[26:43] Then you always say that person would never do it.

[26:45] Turns out that they're the ones that do it.

[26:48] Any business person will tell you most of their theft comes from employees.

[26:51] You know, usually that's where that comes from.

[26:55] And how do I avoid identity theft?

[26:57] You know, spotted the imposter's, they always pretend

[27:00] to be someone else like your family and member charity.

[27:04] Don't send them anything.

[27:07] Online searches,

[27:10] there's all kinds of ways

[27:11] you can search things like, unfortunately,

[27:14] I got scammed about a couple of years ago.

[27:17] I like to live weights, so there was a set of barbells

[27:20] TikTok, and I like, oh, this is a great deal.

[27:24] Bottom, and as soon as I bottom, I said,

[27:26] what did I do, and it's too cheap.

[27:28] I looked up the URL, and you can look up the domain name.

[27:32] And he'll tell you when it was established.

[27:34] So I looked it up and added a bit of establish

[27:36] like a week prior, something like, I got scan.

[27:39] So call my credit card number, we got it back.

[27:41] But that's how they go on your emotions.

[27:45] You get excited about the product, and you're like,

[27:48] wow, this is a really good deal, and they get you.

[27:50] So that's one thing, you do your online searches, they're all out, there's a lot of domains

[27:54] that you can find that will search the URLs of these companies and they'll tell you how long they've been in business.

[28:01] Don't believe your caller ID, that can be spoofed.

[28:09] If the fraudsters asking for something, if they're promising to give you something, but they're asking for something of fraud.

[28:17] 10 out of 10 times it's not gonna be legit.

[28:21] consider how you pay. I always pay with my credit card where I know I'm protected. Use your credit cards that you know that you can call and cancel and get refunded. Money grants,

[28:34] question unions, those are always going to be a scam.

[28:42] And the modern day nuisance, these rubble calls,

[28:46] I'm just hanging up on them for it.

[28:48] I think most of your modern phones,

[28:50] they have a spam protection now

[28:51] where you can just turn that on.

[28:55] And be skeptical about these free trials.

[28:59] Never, somebody calls you and say,

[29:00] hey, I want to give you this, just with this amount of money

[29:04] in your back account, when draw it,

[29:06] give it to me, it's going to be a scan.

[29:08] There's nothing for free.

[29:10] They're always asking,

[29:11] the guy always got to get something.

[29:14] Next one is just a couple of places you can register not to get to try to lessen your

[29:19] spam calls.

[29:21] And the last one is where you can report some of these.

[29:26] Some of these cyber scams for your local agencies, it's very difficult to investigate because

[29:35] they cross state lines across the international lines, we don't have that capability to follow

[29:41] the money beyond usually state lines. So usually that's when the FBI gets involved in that

[29:48] IC3. But like if you are aware of you have ever ziled anything, it tells you, are you sure?

[29:55] Do you know this person before you hit that button? If you send that money.

[30:00] It's pretty much gone. It's going to be very difficult to get that money back.

[30:06] I think that should be it.

[30:09] Questions?

[30:12] Yeah, one question. Thanks for the presentation.

[30:16] Tapping like your ATM card or your phone to an ATM machine, but say at the supermarket or something.

[30:24] Is that pretty much safe rather than swiping your card? Is that the more...

[30:29] Yeah, because when you swipe it, then even now that some of them will still ask you to put your passport, I think anything that asks you to put your passport, you're going to be vulnerable.

[30:39] Got it.

[30:40] Because they just read the number and then whatever you put in there.

[30:44] I see.

[30:44] Thank you.

[30:46] Any other questions?

[30:47] Yeah.

[30:49] One thing I've seen is AI.

[30:51] It's really made these websites, stuff like that.

[30:54] Look fantastic.

[30:55] And, you know, I luckily I've got a young teenage daughter, and she knows exactly what

[30:59] to go to look for all that stuff, so AI is a big one.

[31:03] And another thing, and it's more or less kind of off the opposite, you had pig breaching,

[31:09] what did you guys come up with that name?

[31:11] That's, I don't know who gave it that name, but that's what it's called.

[31:16] Unfortunately, people, there is someone in this city that got, I think it's 600,000,

[31:22] one's a victim and it started up like high, this is so and so on Facebook and they just went

[31:29] from there. So I'll just jump in with the picture what you're in that comes with Barbie and

[31:35] you get Barbie. There you go. That ain't up a pig. Same as a scam. You kind of lure them in and

[31:45] I'm going to take you for a while to work.

[31:47] Here you go.

[31:49] All right.

[31:57] 5.5.

[31:59] Sweet food.

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[32:19] here in the city. I've served the city for over 14 years in all ranks of my career. I also have a

[32:25] long background in water rescue, lifeguarding, and also as a water safety instructor.

[32:32] Drowning is fast, silent, and preventable. The next 10 minutes I'll walk you through a five-layer

[32:38] protection, any family or association can use.

[32:44] The last study in Riverside County was done in 2018 to

[32:47] 22, five years of fatal non-fatal drowning residents and non-residents.

[32:54] In that time, there was over 866 drowning on average 173 every year, 220 drowning deaths

[33:01] that average 44 at percent every year, 64.8% of non-fatal drowning were children ages 0 to

[33:07] 4.

[33:08] And it was at a ratio of 4 to 1 of non-fatal drowning's the fatal drownings.

[33:14] Why how does this matter here in Eastville?

[33:16] Well, in Riverside County, has one of the highest

[33:19] drowning rates in California.

[33:21] We're actually number one for the cause of children one to four.

[33:26] We have four point six times our county's death rate higher

[33:30] than the state average.

[33:32] 84% of our local drownings are kids under five.

[33:39] Most of the drownings, 41% happened in June, July.

[33:42] But since this last stat, which goes at 2022,

[33:44] to the pool season has been getting hotter and lasting longer.

[33:48] Currently, for this year, we are up to 86

[33:51] drowning related instances in this area

[33:54] by art of the agency that the areas that we cover.

[33:58] Here in the city, we have about 10 pools

[34:00] that fall under the statute of public pools.

[34:02] This entails mostly HOA community pools,

[34:05] apartment pools, and one high school pools.

[34:07] And yes, I have responded to each of these settings

[34:10] before in this city.

[34:12] This doesn't include the hundreds of backyard private pools,

[34:14] in the city. Let me stress to you. There is no splashing or shouting a child, a child can go underwater

[34:21] in less than a minute.

[34:24] I just recently was called out to respond to a seven-year-old drowning

[34:27] in nearby H.O.A. pool. I noticed that the child was underwater for about two minutes and that

[34:33] C.Piro's in progress. Upon my arrival we discovered what really happened was it took about two minutes

[34:40] to get her out of the water when a by-center noticed the child was submerged and the time it took

[34:45] to run across, get in the water, swim across to him, jump out of the pool, pull her out and

[34:51] begin CPR was about two minutes alone. So it's estimated that the child was underwater

[34:56] for a significantly longer time.

[34:59] The mother child was...

[35:00] Holding a small infant did not know how to swim and was unaware the incident even happened until crowd

[35:04] noticed a gentleman doing CPR on a seven-year-old girl. Luckily enough, we had a rapid response

[35:09] and took over upon arrival and we were able to get her breathing again and rapidly transported

[35:13] to the pediatric trauma center by helicopter for neurological intervention. I'm happy to say that

[35:18] she will make a full recovery due to the rapid actions of bystanders and our emergency responders,

[35:23] which are here today. No one is immune to these tragedies. I personally know members of my own

[35:28] and seat who have lost their own children to back your journeys.

[35:33] I have seen co-workers, responses to journeys, I am permanently imprinted their minds to the

[35:38] point where they can no longer do this job.

[35:41] Almost every death is preventable with layered protection.

[35:44] Let's talk about those layers.

[35:47] First, fence the pool on all four sides.

[35:50] This is the most effective that anyone can do.

[35:55] It separates the pool from the house, not just the street.

[35:58] It needs to be at least five feet tall, no gaps at child's could squeeze through.

[36:02] This is the number one cause right here.

[36:05] They need to have, they need to be self-closing with self-latching,

[36:09] that swings away from the pool at least five feet tall.

[36:13] Climate Will has to defeat the purpose of these fences.

[36:15] Nearby chairs, planners, coolers, toys,

[36:18] they're all used for kids to get through or around or over the fence.

[36:21] I ask everybody, test your gate today in your home or your association.

[36:25] If it doesn't latch on its own, it isn't working.

[36:29] Ensuring this can reduce the risk of drowning by 83%.

[36:33] I'm quite sure a lot of HOS are not doing the regular maintenance

[36:37] or inspections on their gates.

[36:45] Number two, let's watch closely.

[36:48] The next two layers depend on the adults.

[36:51] They need to name a water watcher.

[36:53] I mean, one adult with no phone, no book, no drinks,

[36:57] keeping their eyes on the water.

[36:58] They could trade off every 15 minutes.

[37:01] Under five-year-old, keep them within your arms reach.

[37:04] This goes for all bodies of water.

[37:07] Third, heat to the swim.

[37:08] Swimming lessons cut the risk for ages one to four.

[37:12] It can start as early as six months.

[37:14] They usually at that time, they're first taught

[37:16] the survival float technique.

[37:19] There are local programs, locally.

[37:20] The first five California program known as Splash,

[37:23] grown in North Hawaii, MCA offers lessons

[37:25] in the Rupa area parks and recreation districts.

[37:27] teach all teach to float, flip, and swim program.

[37:32] For the adults, you can't rescue if you can't swim.

[37:36] We also need to ensure these adults can swim

[37:37] and or navigate the buys of water.

[37:39] It is very common and a lot of parents

[37:42] supervising some children.

[37:43] They're not adequate swimmers themselves.

[37:48] Backups, these layers are if all

[37:51] it's the first three fail.

[37:53] They're physical backups.

[37:55] We have door window alarms.

[37:56] These alarms go off.

[37:58] When the back door glass slides open and to alert adults of unauthorized backyard access,

[38:05] I personally had a supervisor who lost her child to this.

[38:09] Anchored in low-related safety pull covers, these are not solar blankets just to keep

[38:13] to reduce your electric costs to keep your pull warm.

[38:16] These are rated to support loads of 885 pounds to over 600 pounds.

[38:21] They can get up, crawl, and walk back to the deck of the pool they won't sink in the water.

[38:25] In pull alarms, these are designed to sound alarm if there's a disturbance in the water.

[38:29] Someone falls in, if someone enters the pool, the ways will connect and activate a trigger where they go off.

[38:36] The most important thing to note that if for some reason child goes missing you, you don't know where they're at, go check the water first if you're near a body of water.

[38:44] Check that first rule that out before you look at other places.

[38:48] The child's submerge in the water, the sequence is, get them out, shout for help, call 911 immediately and start CPR right away.

[38:58] This builds in a thoracic pressure that can spell water and perfuse organs, do not wait for the paramedics.

[39:04] There are many programs to learn CPR. We have the AHA and the American Red Cross.

[39:09] Our department even has a sidewalk CPR curriculum that they teach for events and is encouraged for everyone to take and is available if the city is interested.

[39:19] I ask you guys to do these five things.

[39:22] Test your gate.

[39:23] Clear, climbable items, your fences.

[39:26] Sign up for free swim lessons.

[39:28] Make sure we have a, we name a good water watcher when we're watching our kids and sign up for a CPR class.

[39:34] We have resources. If you call 1-800-266-3880, that's done by children family services, that will take you and they will connect you to swimming resources.

[39:44] There are a lot of free programs or at low cost, and that's run by the first five California, which is overseen by the Riverside County Children Family Services Commission.

[39:52] You could also look at our U.A.R.U. health.org at Rivco Water Safety, and that will direct you to other resources.

[40:00] In your area as well. Where we could improve is adding regulations or ordinances where you

[40:07] carry of these layers that have at least two of those layers in place at every public pool.

[40:13] Also, if we could have or fund more sponsored programs for some lessons, if you don't get

[40:19] into early enough, all these programs they fill up and they max out, and there's not enough

[40:24] go around to get all the kids that are interested in

[40:27] our parents to have their kids learn just one lessons.

[40:30] And this point I can open up for questions.

[40:33] Yeah, my first question is, and I know that there's been a lot of cities

[40:38] that are around the country have done it, and that is the fence.

[40:41] And some cities do require a fence around a pool.

[40:47] Is there anything here in Riverside County where there are cities

[40:50] that have that, and is it possible to do any spell?

[40:53] Yes, it is actually possible to have those.

[40:56] I know Temacula has a program like that.

[40:59] You have to get the city attorney to create those ordinances that I was speaking of.

[41:03] But the big problems with fences is they don't keep up with the maintenance because of the

[41:07] whether outside because of the weather, the change of conditions and do they're not maintenance

[41:11] and seeing nothing.

[41:12] You'll notice a lot of gates don't latch and that's how these kids get through these barriers

[41:18] or they start to rush, they have pets and things in the band and break as kids play

[41:22] run into things and they're able to squeeze through.

[41:30] Do you have any suggestions for

[41:33] flotational devices that families can feel comfortable using with their children?

[41:39] You know, arm floaties aren't particularly at all safe and

[41:43] likely.

[41:43] Can you live as approved by the US Coast Guard?

[41:46] Is acceptable?

[41:46] They have looked at the level one through three depending on their level.

[41:50] But there's a lot of pool flotation devices that they use and they give a false sense of security

[41:55] to parents.

[41:56] So let's say has the US life car seal which is usually a full best, which is that class 3 or the ones that go around the neck that have the straps, which is also a class 1.

[42:05] Those are only the only ones that are recommended for that, but that does not substitute an adult water watcher.

[42:13] Thank you.

[42:15] Thanks, Captain. Thanks for your presentation.

[42:16] First of all, I want to thank you and your crew for the quick work and saving the 7-year-old

[42:23] life.

[42:24] I can just imagine that the traumatic experience that your crew goes through, so I hope

[42:31] that Calfire does provide some sort of, you know, a psych service after that it's very,

[42:38] I can just imagine how, I can't imagine how traumatic that is.

[42:41] So could you just differentiate what a non-fatal drowning is considered, is it?

[42:47] Yeah.

[42:48] So a non-fatal drowning is where there is a submergent, where there is that this is where

[42:52] they take in water, but they don't, they don't die from it.

[42:56] So there are things known as a parking lot drowning, where sometimes when they take in water,

[42:59] they take enough, when they take enough, and they'll cough a lot of it out.

[43:03] But because the water and we have salt and our bodies will cause a fluid shift that happens

[43:07] later, where their lungs actually start filling up with fluid, and they have trouble breathing

[43:13] a lot of times we'll respond out later to that. There's treatments we give and preventative

[43:17] treatments for instance, like I'll be at all, which will dilate the avialite, help push a lot of

[43:22] that stuff out. So though you might have a joining incident, a child might get submerged or pulled

[43:27] up right away, and they apparently think they're fine. It's still important to get seen and be

[43:32] evaluated for that, you know, listening to lung sounds, we monitor things like oxygen levels,

[43:37] and then entitled CO2, which is, you know, the CO2 put out we monitor as lift, I think

[43:42] of it is that when you measure the exhaust out of a car in our SPO2, our oxygen sensors is

[43:47] the intake of the car. We need to have those numbers match so we know that there's good

[43:52] endorgan profusion. So there's a lot of things that parents don't want to think of that we can

[43:56] treat in the CES4. Thank you. With regards to that, would that be considered what is commonly known

[44:04] as dry-drawn.

[44:06] Dry-drawn is a known parking lot

[44:08] drowning because usually when you're at the beach

[44:09] and things happen in the parking lot,

[44:11] yes, that could be very simple.

[44:14] Sorry.

[44:15] So you do recommend that parents that may have pools

[44:19] and have that near situation, but the kids just coughing, not well.

[44:24] That would be something that you guys need to be called for,

[44:26] or they need to take care of.

[44:27] Absolutely.

[44:27] They're not breathing normally.

[44:29] And especially if they have color change,

[44:31] or they have pain from it, and it's prolonged,

[44:33] and they absolutely should follow up with an evaluation.

[44:37] Thank you.

[44:42] We'll like to thank you for your support in the public safety

[44:44] for this city, our department, our employees on the floor,

[44:49] do value it and do, right?

[44:57] The next item is item 5.6.

[45:00] Disaster Preparedness, Presentation, presented by Emergency Services, Coordinator Mary Hayes Maldonado.

[45:10] Good evening.

[45:22] All right, so the National Preparedness goal. As we go into National Preparedness Month, being September,

[45:27] the National Preparedness goal is a secure and resilient nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent,

[45:36] Protect against mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest threat.

[45:45] 12 simple ways to prepare, sign up for alert and warning, sign up for alert rifco.

[45:50] That's huge, especially in this area, especially being up against a group of valley, so that you know if your area is being evacuated, whether or not you are in the area.

[46:02] Make a plan, say for a rainy day.

[46:06] Practice emergency drills, practice them often.

[46:09] Test family communication plans.

[46:12] Safe guard your documents.

[46:14] Plan with your neighbors.

[46:16] Make your home safer.

[46:18] No evacuation routes.

[46:20] A symbol and updates applies.

[46:23] Get involved in your community and document.

[46:26] And ensure properly.

[46:28] Especially when you first buy a home,

[46:30] you get your insurance, you get everything for the home, but they never update your insurance.

[46:36] Make sure you're updating the home insurance as well.

[46:39] So, preparedness starts with you, know your risk.

[46:43] Risks in Eastfell for natural hazards, you have wildfire, earthquakes, and riverine, urban

[46:49] flooding.

[46:50] Those are just a few of the natural hazards.

[46:52] Some human-caused technological hazards are transportation with hazmat, we're right up

[46:56] against the freeway and power outages with PSPS and the other type of wind event that might

[47:03] happen, a natural hazard can cause a technological hazard.

[47:09] Family emergency communication plans, these are huge.

[47:12] You can go to Ready.gov and you can either print out a form and hand fill it in or they

[47:20] have fillable forms and you email it to yourself and then you can print that as well.

[47:25] And this is just an example of it.

[47:26] I was able to just print it, blank, and put it up here.

[47:30] But it's, you know, your household information,

[47:33] phone numbers, family members, so that you have that for yourself

[47:37] or your family should something happen to you,

[47:40] or should they be at home alone?

[47:41] They know who to call.

[47:44] Build an emergency supply kit.

[47:46] It's huge.

[47:47] Or water alone.

[47:50] In an emergency, you need to have one gallon per person,

[47:53] per day for up to several days. And that's just for your drinking water. And that's your drinking water

[48:01] or your family's drinking water that doesn't include pets. Simple things like food can food.

[48:06] If you have canned food, make sure you have canned opener.

[48:10] Battery powered or hand crank radios.

[48:14] Eastville has a radio station that we are still in the process of getting launched for the city.

[48:20] That will be huge during an emergency when we have communication failures.

[48:24] Make sure you have a flashlight and these are just recommendations and you can keep building

[48:29] on to it.

[48:30] My truck for work is its own personal kit.

[48:34] I have a first aid kit, I have a toilet tree kit, I have extra clothes, I have extra water,

[48:38] I have canned water in there, just in case something were to happen and I'm sent out to an

[48:43] incident and I'm there for a few days.

[48:46] My home, I have my own kit, I don't have a kit for my dog, I need to get that.

[48:53] Special considerations. Family members with access and functional needs. I am a person with access and functional needs.

[48:59] I work glasses, I need a inhaler, and I carry an happy pen with me.

[49:04] A lot of people fit into the access and functional needs category that you don't even think about.

[49:10] So older adults, children, people with disabilities, and even pregnant women are considered access and functional needs.

[49:18] And always don't forget your pets, food, water, any medications, this little dog there is mine, and he has every

[49:29] amount of occasion you can think of.

[49:32] Get involved.

[49:33] Volunteer, please take a certain course.

[49:35] There will be one in October and join the neighborhood watch.

[49:40] Here's our next course.

[49:41] It's going to be October 23, 24th and 25th here.

[49:45] Registration can be found through that QR code and it will also be advertised online, and I'm going to try and drop it off at some community focal points to get some more involvement.

[49:59] Here are some resources.

[50:00] It will, these QR codes will take you directly to the website where you can build a kit, where you can plan ahead, and where you can sign up for alert risk code. Again, alert risk code is going to be important.

[50:10] If you are out of town or at work and you don't work in the city or in that special geof coded area, and we have to send out an evacuation for whatever reason, a shelter in place, whatever it might be, you will get notified through alert risk code via email or text message.

[50:30] even if you're not in the area.

[50:33] Are there any questions?

[50:38] Thanks again for the presentation that was very informative.

[50:42] I know there's been a lot of earthquakes going on in South America.

[50:46] I think Venezuela and I forget the other country.

[50:51] But you know, this helps tremendously.

[50:55] I know people don't prepare until it's too late.

[50:58] And so hopefully this does help others to get prepared in regards to the flooding.

[51:09] I know there's been a lot of talk in regards to the super El Niño.

[51:14] I would just recommend to maybe city staff educating through maybe our social media about

[51:24] The potential for it and perhaps you know getting ready to clear the storm basins and so that we don't experience any flooding out there

[51:32] So thank you

[51:36] Well, I could really I want to encourage people to sign up for the class

[51:43] I have personally taken the start class myself and I

[51:49] Wasn't really sure what to expect but I was pleasantly

[51:55] educated with the kind of information that was shared in situations that we may be

[52:03] foreseen in the future. And it's definitely a game changer for those people that

[52:11] like to prepare and like to be aware of their situations and their surroundings. So I

[52:18] do want to encourage people to go ahead and consider the class that may seem a little

[52:22] But I was pleasantly surprised to see that the timeline actually fit really well with the amount of information that was shared and it didn't feel redundant and it felt very very informative.

[52:40] So I want to encourage people to consider that. That's not all my comment to that.

[52:44] I appreciate that.

[52:45] Thank you.

[52:49] Any more questions?

[52:52] Thank you.

[52:53] Thank you.

[52:57] Okay, moving on.

[52:58] You may submit public comment by filling out a public comment card.

[53:02] Public comments are allowed for a maximum of three minutes per individual comment.

[53:07] Please note that during public comment, the commission is not able to respond to

[53:11] inquiries or engage in dialogue.

[53:15] Clerk has anyone submitted a comment card?

[53:18] No, we do not have any request.

[53:20] Okay.

[53:24] Okay.

[53:24] Moving on to items.

[53:27] The consent calendar.

[53:28] All matters on the consent calendar are considered routine and are to be approved with one motion,

[53:33] unless a commissioner, staff member or a member of the public request, separate action on a specific item.

[53:40] Any spells staff member, request a poll item?

[53:44] No.

[53:45] Commissioners, would you like something?

[53:48] Not at this time.

[53:49] No, no.

[53:51] At this time, I would like to solicit a motion and a second to vote on the remainder of the consent calendar.

[53:58] I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar.

[54:05] I will second it.

[54:08] Motion by Vice Chair Cruz, second by Chair Blair, please vote.

[54:20] Motion passes 30.

[54:25] Okay, item number eight.

[54:28] Commissioned business items.

[54:30] There are none.

[54:31] Or do you have something?

[54:36] The city staff report.

[54:38] Chair to ask the city staff.

[54:41] Nothing?

[54:44] Good evening, Chair Vice Chair and Commissioner for City Staff Report.

[54:48] We wanted to remind everyone that we have our 9.11 Memorial event coming up at Fire Station 27 from 6.45am to 7.45am.

[54:58] Also, it's that time of year, I'll stay.

[55:00] Item of the city, Thursday, October 1st, Advantage Point Church, doors open at 530, and also just want to remind everyone to stay cool, hydrated, and don't forget your four-legged friends also.

[55:13] That concludes my report. Perfect, thank you. Commissioner, communication, anything from the commissioners.

[55:22] No, not at this time.

[55:26] Then we are going to adjourn the next meeting of the Public Safety Commission is scheduled for Tuesday, September 22nd.

[55:32] The meeting is now adjourned.

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