City Council - Regular Meeting

as most of you know, there's a lot going on in the city of LA. Would you all agree? So, um I just want to take a moment of silence because law enforcement is truly um at the front lines and I saw some videos today that was very disturbing. So, can we just give them a moment of silence as we uh get ready to pray? Dear heavenly father, thank you so much for once again an incredible evening in Canyon Lake, Lord. And there's a lot happening, Lord. Whether it's in California, whether it's across the nation, even in our little city here in Canyon Lake with everything that's going on with our lake and our entire community members coming together and trying to find solutions. Lord, I just ask that you continue to guide us and let us be reminded that we're trying to honor you and everything that we do. Lord, and let us come together as a community and continue to make Canyon Lake one of the greatest places to live in the United States. Lord, I appreciate that in your name. Amen. Amen. If you'd remain standing and I would like to call Hank Hoger to lead us in tonight's pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Hank. Madame Clerk, could you please conduct a roll call? Mayor Prom Castillo here. Council member Smith here. Council member Ste here. Council member Wely here. Mayor Terry here. Mayor, you have a quorum. City attorney Graham, could you please report out of close session? Yes, Mayor, and good evening. On items one and two of the close session, the city council gave settlement direction by a vote of 5 to zero. There's no other reportable action from tonight's close session.

All right. How many people are on Facebook? Yeah, unfortunately too many. But I think one of the things it's kind of a repeating theme we hear about ebikes. We hear about kids and not having respect for our community and our amenities. That's why tonight is so special because we are going to honor a youth who is just the opposite of that. Hank, you want to come on up here? Everyone give a big round of applause. [Applause] He likes that you got fans. Before I get started, Hank has been on my radar for quite some time. Um, occasionally he and his buddies will come into the country club and what do you do? Get a soda or something? Is that what you do? Yeah, I got good soda there. And I've I've heard about him for quite a long time. And he has a great reputation in our community. And if you just hang out with him for a couple minutes, you'll realize that this is going to be a great human being, a great grown-up, and a great citizen one day. One more round of applause if you don't mind. We are excited to shine the spotlight on this month's citizen of the month, Hank Hoger. Hank is a Canyon Lake resident, standout honor student at Canyon Lake Middle School. And today we are celebrating for him being a true hometown hero. Wait till you hear this. While riding to school on his ebike with his friends, Hank saw a girl take a tumble on her bike and have an accident.

Without missing a beat, he jumped into action, making sure that she was okay, sticking with her until she felt steady, and even following her home to be sure she got there safely. Having been through a few bike wipes out himself, Hank knew how awkward those moments can be, and he just wanted to help take the edge off. This wasn't a one-time thing. Hank has a reputation for being the kind of kid who always steps up. He and his friends are known around town for helping others whenever they can. And when it comes to riding responsibly, Hanks got that cover, too. He earned a five earned five e rider certificates from the POA patrol. That's that's overachievement, by the way. That's a standard. [Applause] Hank, you are awesome. Thank you for all you do. Hank, we will take a picture. This is for you. Thank you. You are welcome. Thank you, bud.

Okay. Presentations. I would like to call up board treasurer Jeff Bill on behalf of the Canyon Lake Property Owners Association. We can give him a big round of applause, too. It's hard to follow Hank. It's nice to hear a good positive story. Turn it on. So, um, mayor, mayor, prom, council, thanks for having us. Uh, the POA board meeting was held last Tuesday, June 3rd. We had a record cl crowd of nearly 300 residents attending in person in a wonderful marathon session that lasted about four hours. Fortunately, I was in Chicago. So, um Doug Schultz was honored as member of the month for organizing Country Fest. Um it was a very big event. We had over 3,000 people there. Very successful. It was our first annual attempt at it and uh everything went fairly well. Lodge manager Laura Flores was named employee of the quarter. praise for her energy, leadership, mentorship. Um, and this was all done because of multiple heartwarming letters we received from her employees and people that have reached out to us individually. The primary focus of the e evening was a uh surprisingly was the topic of the lake. So I don't know if you guys have heard we've had some issues there. So we brought in experts from Lake Elsenor Sanosinto watershed authority or lea and GI consultants and they presented more than a decade of water quality data. The golden algae bloom was determined to be the main cause of the fish dying in the lake. Many people here aren't used to the golden algae bloom. Typically we have blue green algae. The golden algae releases toxins that damage the fish gills, leaves them starving for oxygen,

even in oxygen rich water. The experts acknowledge this possibility, emphasize that golden algae thrives in the cooler, salty water, and there's no quick fix. As the lake temperature rises, we expect the blooms to kind of back off. We also do have very high salinity currently, so we are looking into that. We're actively evaluating potential solutions with all the local authorities, including the city and Leoa. Um, we are testing on a more routine basis. We are also tracking um the golden algae contents weekly, testing the fish fish tissue and looking at other solutions such as oxygenation, algicides, shoreline vegetation. The POA also worked with the city to have a community cleanup day on Saturday, June 7th from 9:00 a.m. to noon. We want to thank you guys for working with us and helping to organize that. We had a great turnout. Those that showed up got pizza and we just really appreciate their time. On a um another note, speaking of ebikes, it's really nice to hear a positive um event with the ebikes because currently we're having trouble with ebikers. Um we had some damage done on the golf course. Um it was enough to where a reward has been offered of $2,200. The dollar amount of the damage classified it as felony vandalism. We are pursuing it with the sheriff's department and we do have some people kind of in mind that we're looking at. We're we can't comment until the investigation is done. So, the board also approved resurfacing of the tennis courts to address potential safety issues. And I also just wanted to publicly thank the POA management and staff for in one week we had the board orientation, Fiesta Days, Countryfest, and all the late concerns. And the staff stepped up, put in the time and effort to get it all

taken care of. Uh that's uh pretty much a rundown for what we've done this past few weeks. Is there any questions, comments, or insults? Any questions? Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you. Appreciate you. Next up, um, Canyon Lake Chamber of Commerce President John Grande, Mr. Mayor, Mayor Pro, Council members, staff, other staff. Oh, I need to push something. Yeah, red means go here. Not yet. There you keep going. Sorry. Oh, there we go. No, it's all right. Thank you, Aaron. No problem. Um, gota have a certificate in button pushing. That's it. Mr. Mayor, uh, Mayor Prom, uh, council members, city staff, other city staff, um, fine citizens of Canyon Lake, and others. I'm always honored to be here as always. I'll try to keep it brief. Um, we uh, we normally hold our monthly business roundt meeting, first Thursday of every month uh, in the Magnolia room. However, for the month of July, we will be dark because it falls on July 3rd. Last time we held that event, the day before or the day after a holiday, we really didn't have any attendance, so we're not going to fall into that again. Um, our next, we just had our June business mixer last night at Pepes and oh no, I'm sorry, Monday night. I beg your pardon. And our next one will be uh July 14th at a location to be announced. We are also working very hard at um getting Parade of Frights and Battle of the Businesses in the fall prepared. So um you know come check the chamber calendar for the dates. But uh as always those are some two really fun community events. I'd also like to congratulate um our business of the our citizen of the month

Hank. My wife Kalista happened to see him on the way to school last week and was so impressed with how polite and safe he was that she made it a point to put it on the Facebook community group. So, thank you and hopefully you'll be an example for your peers, Hank. Um, also, uh, in regards to, uh, the other kids who are specifically destroying the 14th greener on our golf course, the chamber would like to pledge an additional $2, uh, $200 to, uh, the reward that's offered, and uh, that's going to bring it up to $2,400. So, any questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you very much, everyone. With that being said, um I would like to uh turn the mic back over to our own city manager. Uh thank you, mayor. Uh in in the same light of what they're saying, uh I'll be reaching out to Eric and make sure I was able to do this. Uh the city will put in $2,000 towards that reward as well because we've got to do what we can to to make this go away. Um, while the the golf course is private property and and not public property, it is a crime that's being committed in our city. And if I can find money in the budget to move over to to help this happen, um, we we want to help that. Thank you. Awesome. All right. Riverside County Sheriff Captain Rails. Good evening, Mayor Council and staff and citizens of Lake. Captain Jim Rails from Lake Ellner Station. I'm your chief law enforcement officer here in the city of Canyon Lake. I have your uh first quarter stats presentation. I apologize. I was supposed to give it last month, but um I was I I was at the city of Wdemar um city council meeting and it's at the same time and I had two presentations that day. So I was I was

kind of stuck and couldn't get it done. But uh we'll go ahead and give it today. Uh let's look at the calls for service. First of all, in January, we had 455 calls for service compared to 360 last year. In February, 396 compared to 300 last year. And in March, 415 compared to four 408 from last year. If you look at the bottom graphs, um you have three bars there. Uh let's look at your two your two largest bars um to the right. Uh that just gives you the times uh where most of the calls for service are. And most of those calls a service are between noon to midnight. Uh the bulk of it between six o'clock in the evening to midnight. And I broke it down um between uh dispatch calls and proactivity here and kind of gave you a percentage of a breakdown so you can see uh which which calls are dispatched and which is uh actual proactive. And dispatch are calls that are called into 911 um and are dispatched to the deputies. We have a lot of other calls for service whether a flag downs or uh we have deputies doing follow-ups. We have business checks and area checks and those types of things. And those are your proactive type calls or vehicle stops uh writing citations. Those types of things. So if you look in January, uh we had 234 dispatch calls compared to 221 proactive calls. That's right in the 50% range is what we've been we've been staying at. That gives you a daily average of 7.54 calls per day. In February, we had 185 calls that were dispatched, 211 that were proactive, and that's still right around the six the 50% range, 46.8, which is uh 6.6 calls per day. And in March, we had 184 dispatch calls, peractive, 231. Uh that gives you right in the 44.4% range and right at six calls per day. So if you look uh we're ranging ex dispatch

calls um right at six well six to seven calls per day total that would only be three to four dispatched calls that are coming into 911 uh arrests for the three months which is January, February and March. Felony is to the left. We had five felony arrests in January. We had one in February and no felony arrests in March. If you look at the gray bar, that is that compares it to last year. If you look at misdemeanor arrests, we had uh three misdemeanor arrests in January, five in February, and two in March. Here are part one violent crimes. Part one violent part one crimes are crimes that we have to send over to the FBI and that kind of determines what your uh safe city level is and those are only specific crimes. There's uh violent crimes and then property crimes. We'll go for violent crimes first. Um, in January we had two aggravated assaults and one robbery, no sex crimes, no homicides. And in February, we had zero violent crimes in the city. And in March, we had two aggravated assaults, no robberies, uh, no sex crimes, and no homicides. Looking at property crimes in 2025 and January, we had zero burglaries, six thefts and no vehicle thefts. Looking into February, we had one burglary, seven thefts. Larseny is a theft. You see that to the left. And in March, we had uh five larsenies, which are thefts. So, looking at our our biggest crime here in Canyon Lake, it has to be theft by far. We used to have quite a few more uh vehicle thefts. uh we've dwindled that down probably 60 70% over the last few years and that's mostly related to the flock cameras that we have. Um you're not getting away with

it anymore. We have both sides of the city covered and every gate um going into the the lake is covered with flot cameras and the flock cameras are automated license reader cameras. Uh looking at average response times, the the main ones we're looking at are priority ones and twos. Priority ones is when there's a threat to human life or property. Uh which which involve a high level of violence. Those are calls that we get to right away with lights and sirens. Uh the prod's calls in January was 7.26 minutes. Um in February was 8.3 minutes and then March 7.58 minutes. And that with dispatch call for us different than firef fire. they they have their turnout time and their response time, which is total time. Uh that's kind of what this is here. It's the time that 911 is called. That's when the clock starts until it's dispatched to the deputy and the deputy arrives. So that's we like to stay right around 6 and 12 to 7 minutes is normal response times. It's great to get it under that, but uh looking at January was good. February not too bad. H March not too bad. So um working on trying to get those down. Priority two calls is your is your next level which at one point posed an immediate threat but no longer kind of kind of a past call but you still need to get there in case you know there there's possibility of it turning turning back to a priority one and that was a 23minut response and then priority threes and fours are all your uh your your past past calls past the past burglaries and those types of things. Um and priority three 28.9 minutes and priority four 51.82 82 minutes. Let's look at our traffic stats for the three months. Um, in January we had six total collisions, one fatal collision, and had three total citations and two DUIs. In February, we had 11 collisions,

no fatal collisions, 21 total citations, and four DUI arrests. And then in March, we had six total collisions, zero fatal collisions, six citations issued, and five DUI arrests. And that covers my stats reports. I just wanted to do a quick uh look into the fireworks uh ordinance. Uh we all know Fourth of July coming up. We're already starting to hear fireworks um launched within the community. We're already starting to get those calls. And I just wanted to remind everyone that s ordinance 11.03.020 020 uh covers fireworks being prohibited prohibited within the city of Canyon Lake. First offense is a $1,000 fine. Second offense is a $2,000 fine. And third offense is in is $5,000 fine. And that's if they all occur within a 36-month period. So that's a three-year period. So please be mindful um not to light off fireworks. You've got obviously dogs um that will run away and then we we have to deal with that. Pets can't handle it. You've got u those that have PTSD uh prior military that have PTSD and it really does cause a lot of problems uh with with fireworks going off. So just wait until the the big fireworks show on the 4th. And given that that's that's all I have. if you have any questions. Hi. Was there was there something that happened in February that caused the increase in traffic citations? The traffic citations I tried to look into that but I couldn't find anything specific. Usually would be a DUI checkpoint or something of that of nature is we had a few few different deputies working there. Uh they have a traffic background so when they had free time that's what they did. So, it's nice to have those like we have in the past

traffic oriented deputies that are that are working and they write more citations. So, thank you. I would have to say that would be the main thing. Okay, Mr. Mayor, if I may. Yes. I'm sorry this is going to be a little longwinded, so bear with me, Captain. Um, so as of right now, about 30 seconds ago, I received a notification that um the individual or or minor that they believe did damage to the golf carts has posted on Facebook that they're going to do what's called the last day of school ride out starting tomorrow. Did you get that information? Yes, we've been aware of that for the past week. Okay. So, um, are you going to I know it's the ebike conversation is such a difficult conversation here in Canyon Lake, but, um, obviously when you can see the map that was posted, they they start out in Lake Elsenor and then they come through the gates and so you guys are kind of prepared and going to be looking out for that then. Yes, we are. We are aware and we're we're going to be dealing with it. The other thing I want to give a shout out because, you know, Mayor Pro Tim Castillo and myself have been begging the sheriff's department to give the stats that you gave tonight, which is identifying exactly the calls and it was nice and and and forgive my ignorance if if if that was presented before, but I believe that's the first time that we're seeing it broken down exactly that way. I have done it once before. What it requires because of our CAD system, I have to go through each call for service and look at them. Um, this is probably not 100% accurate, but it's it's probably 95%. And I and I realize that and that's why I want to say thank you because I know the extra work that it takes to do that, which is why it's probably not being done in other cities. So, I just want to say thank you for that cuz it really gives not just ourselves up here as policy makers, but also the residents an idea of of what we're dealing with per call basis, and I think that's that's very beneficial. Um, I also want to say, um, you know, I want to give a shout out to you, Captain, because I know that this council has made a decision to look at other law enforcement options, but your leadership

regionally has been absolutely incredible. Seriously, um, with some of the issues that we've dealt with with traffic collisions, um, you being a a constant communicator with some of our local PR people here, um, it has made our life so much easier with your professionalism. So, I just want to personally say, I know you missed the council meeting because you were double booked when we had a discussion on law enforcement. Um, but for me personally, I just want to say working with you is absolutely incredible and you're top-notch in my book, 100%. So, thank you. I appreciate that. Any other questions? Thank you very much, Captain Rails. Uh, up next, Candy Lake Fire Department, Chief Latendrris. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Mayor Prom, City Council, members of staff, uh, citizens of Canyon Lake, Chief Lieutenant, your fire chief, and I'm here to present our monthly statistics for the month of May. So, month of May, we had 105 emergency responses. Of those 105 emergency responses, six were fires, 79 were medical aids, six were service calls, eight were good intent, five were false alarms, and we had one that was not reported for a total of 105 calls. Our response time, and as the captain pointed out, we look at three components to make our total response time. The first component is the turnout time. the time from dispatch to the unit goes in route. Travel time from in or out to arrive on scene. You add up those three components for your total response time. So in the month of May, we had one of our best months at 38 seconds for turnout time on average. Our travel time was 5 minutes 15 seconds for a total response time of 5 minutes and 44 seconds. Conversely, that's 50% of the time. How are we doing 90% of the time? 90% of the

time we are turning out to the incident within 1 minute and 1 second. Our travel time is 7 minutes and 25 seconds and our total response time is 7 minutes and 43 seconds. And if you notice our goal there, we've put it up there every month is 745. We actually met our 90% goal and I believe that's the first time since we've been in existence since 2022. Nice. um automatic and mutual aid given. During the month of May, we responded to 10 incidents outside the city. 10 of those were in the zip code area of Lake Elsenor. Uh there were no other uh areas that we respond to. So, thus far this year, we've responded to 40 incidents outside the city, 35 in the Lake Elsenor zip code area, five in Meny. uh we didn't go to any in good hope thus far and we did respond as part of the fire response in January to the fires in Los Angeles. Conversely, we've received mutual aid from other agencies, mostly Calire, four times during the month of May. Uh this year they have responded into the city 34 incidents to assist us when we were committed or on incidents that required more than one engine. We had some significant community outreach during the month of May that I want to highlight. Obviously for Fiesta Days, the end of May, Memorial Day, we did staff a second engine company for both Saturday and Sunday. We participated in the parade. We're at the county uh the country concert at the at the Holiday Harbor. We placed flags out in the neighborhood before. Uh we obviously were out there with our flag at half staff until noon and then we raised it up as the flag code says. We did respond to a fairly significant golf cart incident. Uh the firefighters were out there giving out water to the Clams golf tournament. It was also the closing of our open house week and our firefighter memorial week where we went

out at noon on Sunday and sounded our sirens as a momentto lost in the last year uh in the fire service. We're also now going through last month we talked about getting ready for wildland season. All of our personnel went up into the Idaho Wild area intended wildland training. This month we're sending all of our fires firefighters through live fire training in Corona. So we're hiring back people on overtime. They're going down as a crew with the battalion chief going through live fire operations in Corona. It is a requirement as part of our ISO rating that we do this kind of training annually. And so we're completing that this month. And that concludes my report. I'm available for any questions, but I would like to give a shout out for this weekend. Saturday, here at the town center from 11 to 3, the firefighters association is putting on their third annual golf cart event. And in conjunction with that, the POA is holding their ebike and bike safety event in the same location. So, it should be a great day for the family to come out, get some good information, uh enjoy some food vendors, and be part of the community. So hopefully we'll see you there on Saturday and I'm available for questions. Mayor, yes. Uh the fourth of July July is coming up rather soon. Could you kind of lay out maybe a little bit of the plans for the 4th of July? Yes. So we haven't had our first meeting yet. The the fireworks tech company is the same company that has been in use for a number of years. They have submitted their permit. We're reviewing the permit. We anticipate the POA, the sheriff's department, and the city to begin our planning meetings here in the very near future. Um, it's probably going to be a little bit different this year with the lake. Um, so we'll see how all that comes together, but the plan is to have the fireworks launch from Skipper Island uh at 9:00 on the 4th. Uh, we will be staffing because it's a holiday weekend. It's a Friday and a Saturday. Again, we will be staffing up

a second engine on both Friday and Saturday to deal with the anticipated crowds. And I just like to say thank you all the fire, police, and PA for all working together and prepping because working in a not organized fashion on that day is not that effective. And we know for years you guys have been having conversations and meetings and getting ready for the day. So want to thank you guys all of you for doing that. Thank you. Before I move on, any other I just wanted to make a comment. Um, also, Chief, I want to, you know, thank the sheriff's department, too. I was told that the POA reached out to the sheriff's department to get some additional help on that day in regards to crossing and whatnot. I know the city is going to partner up with the POA to make sure we provide that service, too, with all the activity of golf carts, bikes, everything that's happening so everyone can feel comfortable with uh with that event. So, I think it's been a great team effort all around. So, thank you for bringing that event up. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. If I could add something, mayor, that that is uh subject to change just because there may be a chance that uh Riverside County Sheriff will not be available. Things going on in LA. So, they did give us that caveat that if something happens, they they may need to. I don't know if any of that's changed. Captain, no, we're still we've had deputies in Los Angeles since Sunday working right down right down in LA. Um protecting city hall, actually. Um they're still down there tonight. Um we have a big operation on Saturday. It's actually nationwide. There's a no Kings Day and there's several uh um uprisings that's supposed to occur throughout throughout the county. One uh downtown Riverside. So we have we have a team set aside for that. But what we're planning on doing here is we've just posted for a couple of uh community service officers who do traffic control. They're trained in traffic control. Um they're available. So we should have them out there. Appreciate that. All right. Next from Elsenor Valley

Municipal Water District, general manager Greg Thomas Jeff, this is the right height. Okay, just so you mayor, Mayor Prom, council members, Aaron, staff, uh, pleasure to be here. Uh, filling in for Director Burke who is out of town for conference. So, I uh I'm just a little taller, but she has a lot better hair than I do. So, uh but uh just give you an update again. Um kind of follow up a little bit. Uh the lake issue is probably the biggest item, and that's provide an update for the for the council tonight and and folks here in the room. Um you know, kind of build off of what Jeff Bill had mentioned from the POA update, but uh we're all working that we definitely understand the impacts to the community for this. Um, it's not a very fluid situation given that there's multiple entities involved with this, but I want to commend Aaron and the city staff, the POA, definitely the Leoa Lake Saninto watershed authority staff, the GEI consultants who are doing some things above and beyond related to trying to arrest or address this uh emergency situation. and we're considering it an emergency. So, we actually had a really good meeting last week or yesterday with all the four entities to address what can we do short term. So, our uh consultants were GI was actually out on the lake today taking a variety of samples at different depths. um can understand that uh thinking about how this is it's golden algae which is new to Canyon Lake, not necessarily new to water bodies, but definitely new here because you know as as noted blue green algae tends to be the the uh the algae that is

addressed in Kenyon Lake, which is why you have the lea involved with the uh uh total maximum daily load task force and and the alum applications etc. So um so we're going to look at that. We're going to take those samples and do a speciation, look at toxic, toxicity, do all that science and trying to understand based off samples before so that we can come up with a solution. We're looking at some form of algicide. I'm not going to throw out what because I'm going to let the scientists kind of look at that. We know there's pros and cons to either one. Uh, you know, Lake Mission Viejo kind of went nuclear and that's why they have a dead lake. you know, they used a product that basically kills everything. And we want to be really, really smart about what we do. We don't want to um you know, there's some of the copper copper sulfates we understand it kills everything. It's kind of like I got some danalines in my yard. I'm just going to use Roundup. No, you kill everything. You know, use use the right product for the right application. So, we are looking at that. I don't have a time frame yet. They're going to bring back the sampling, etc. And then we're all getting to get back together again to see what what it is that we're going to do, when we're going to apply it. We have permitting that we need to go through. It's a regulatory. We do not want again kill everything. You know, definitely for the fishermen who are out there and I I definitely like to hear some things from what they're seeing because that's the more information we have, the better we can make those decisions. But yeah, we don't want to we don't want to make a problem worse by that. So again, we're all working closely together to try to get a solution here in the near term. Again, I can't promise anything. Um, I'm going to listen to the experts. I'm not going to listen to Google. I'm not going to AI this stuff. We're going to listen to the folks that have PhDs in algae, lenologies, those types of folks to really come up with what we can do to uh address this situation. So, and it

changes. This water body is so dynamic. I mean it changes from one storm different events. So again we really want to manage it properly for that. We also talked about doing some long-term what do we have in for so we can start let's get through this now let's look what we can do long term. Um lea just did their strategic plan. uh there's some things out of that uh that we're going to try to caveat and use that to to start looking longterm what we can start implementing because it's not just the local folks there's things upstream and that's part of the whole lea folks who pay into that including the city us and others so uh the leisure board so that's kind of where we're at on that um again we want to strike a really good balance on this we don't want to just go in there willy-nilly doing something so I'll I'll defer to the experts and discuss addressing that and um and again looking at that. So in that sense long term so that was really my main update for tonight. So barring any questions or comments. What is the sense of urgency on this? Um there is a sense of urgency. Uh right now like I said we we got together yesterday pulling everybody. We've been having weekly meetings and and calls uh talked to the LEA folks this morning about things. We're definitely we reached out to the state water board, not only us because probably TMI too much information related to it that there's no specific permit for the lake. We have one for our buoy area for the water treatment plant when there's situations that we need to treat, but we need to make sure that we can use that permit potentially for the entire lake. Otherwise, there's a whole application process. But state water board in Sacramento and our regional water quality control board here, we're working with them. and we reached out to them to find out can we use our permit so we can really streamline this whole thing. Again, fish and wildlife get involved. As you know, regulatory processes take a while, but we are pushing really hard on that. And I will

give credit to the regional board and the state water board. They understand what's going on and they're they're working with us in that regards. I hope that answers your question, Mayor. I got a bone to pick because um I'm like brand new on Leedge thanks to the mayor and thanks to the former Leo rep. So, it's been a fun uh few months uh learning all there is about what's going on. But um I'll be the one to say it so you don't have to. Very complex situation and understanding that we're the only ones here in the community that really care about the usage of of the lake and the quality and stuff. It's difficult when we have outside conversations with entities and I know speaking with yourself and and Darcy, you guys are having very private conversations because you don't want to rock the boat too much and I understand that and you guys are working around the clock to make sure that you bring a plan forward for our residents here in Canyon Lake. And I just want to say thank you for your hard work. Um I know that when you're having as many uh stakeholders in in one room or a Zoom meeting, it becomes very difficult because everyone has an opinion and that's where it's hard. But I will assure the community that through your leadership and obviously everyone at EVMWD and the POA um and Leoa and and the city um it's been assuring to see how much we're communicating with each other when before that wasn't the case. Um I know for myself I'm talking to PA board members um other board members on Lesa um and also obviously your agency daily and that is something that is unique I think that we haven't seen before. Obviously, we haven't dealt with gold and algae before, but I just want to say thank you for putting up with us and helping us through this process, and if we learned anything, um, we're going to put together that strategic plan that's needed. So, that's been reassuring as well. So, thank you, council member. It's it's it's it's a group effort. It really is. And I I agree. The communications is so key and working together, putting away egos and stuff, and just let's get it done. Yeah, that's what we want. We want

to deliver something to the community. We want to do it like the mayor said, it's an it's something that we need to do sooner than later and I know that you guys are making this a priority. So, I appreciate it. Just want to comment on the TMDL, the the total daily load uh the group and some people they say there's lot lack of transparency and what they do and that they're trying to hide something. I can assure you the biggest block to transparency TMDL has is the level of detail they go into in every meeting about the data they pull. So, if you have the patience to sit through two hours of minutia, then it's all on the table. But if you're like, you know, like me, after 10 minutes, and I I've sat through hours and hours of it, it's uh you realize pretty quick those guys the level of detail is just beyond what most people understand. Thank you, Councilman. Yeah, I would assure our residents that these conversations between agencies are occurring every day. Would you not agree? Um, I appreciate your patience. Um, I appreciate your willingness to work with our community. I do believe that there is a sense of urgency on behalf of our residents and I would hope that communication which I think is going to be key here in the days and weeks to come will continue so that they can have that same security and knowing that all these agencies are are working very hard at coming up with a both a short-term and a long-term solution. And I know I've been in communication with you over the last week and it is very much appreciated. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. And uh I'll just say, you know, I apologize that we're using your update as an opportunity for us to talk about the non-aggenda item that's that's this update. So, you know, I I will say also um you know, a part of what we're

learning through this process is it's okay to say that we do not have a plan, but we need to be honest to the residents. And if anything that I've learned with now averaging between five and 10 calls a day from people that I don't know in my city calling me about this topic, um, letting them know that I don't know, but I'm going to ask and find out has been something that I've had to work better at, better at, better at, but I think it's important as we're working together for this, it's okay not to know, but we need to make sure we know when we move forward with the process. And I would ask my colleagues, you know, the city's in an awkward spot because, you know, we're just one that is supposed to communicate and facilitate the PR between all the agencies, but this is our community as well. It's our job to make sure that we're providing as much information to our residents as possible. It's our job to do what we can from a city's perspective. Um, and I know I've committed to several residents who have called me that that I'm going to do that the best I possibly can. So, um, but I just say, you know, appreciate you putting up with us. Seriously. Thank you. It's my pleasure. I have a question that I already know the answer to, but I don't think a lot of our residents um either know or understand. And maybe you could just take the opportunity to kind of explain from our relationship perspective why the city the city cannot just go and put chemicals in or dredge or do whatever the city thinks is uh appropriate. Can you explain to our residents? I'm trying. Jeremy's trying. We're on Facebook every day trying. But I think if they heard it maybe from someone who actually is in the owner of the lake that might be helpful. Sure. So let's go back to 190. No, it it really does start in 1929 when when the dam was built for irrigation purposes for a up in Corona

in the telescope alleys area. So, and then we as a water district um got water rights from the lake and we built the water treatment plant for portable water, not to recycle the water in the lake. So, make sure that that's known. It's for drinking water purposes. And uh that was in the late 50s. And so, uh through that time, then we actually bought Teascal in 1989. So we we became the owners of the entire lake knowing that the Corona Land Company, which was an offshoot of the Teamscale Water Company, created the housing, the canyon of like, hey, this is great little bit of paradise. Let's let's build this stuff. So it's kind of a unique unique situation of we own it. The POA leases recreational rights to the lake. We're we're first and foremost a drinking water reservoir. We fall under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Uh we had to get special legislation because we're only one of three actual drinking water reservoirs that allow full body contact and recreational aspects. We required special legislation in the early 2000s. We had to add special treatment to our water treatment plant to allow that. So we had to take a lot of the things that that the uh safe drinking water act requires out of that. So So yeah, we're the owners of the lake. We look at it for water purposes. uh we do own the thing and of course we went through uh some previous issues with the POA relating to boundaries. Um but so from that aspect yeah we are concerned about water quality. It kind of tends to go to its affordable water side. The plant has been down for three years due to PAS if you've all heard about the forever chemical. Uh it's in our lake. It came from upstream. So it reached the limit that we were required to uh take the plant offline and we're we're in the process. We've just finalized design for a new plant. Um so then the PA again leasing and then Legea is new because when Canyon Lake and Lakeor bottom of the funnel 780 square miles of drainage

off the Saninto became impaired water bodies that's when leisure was helped created to go get money to help do that which is what pays for and was paying for the alum and some other things. So that's kind of the history. the city is in more new and so kind of more of a jurisdictional boundary, but the fact that you're here, Aaron, the team, the staff working all together and like you said, it it's your lake, your your residents here. So, uh, we appreciate that. And so that's how the city is not really responsible for it, but you're a partner in this just like everybody else. Okay. So, you would be really mad if I just went out and poured stuff into Oh, yeah. Very mad. Yeah. You need a I just want the residents to understand there's a reason we're not Yeah. Yeah. No, that that is not, you know, just again it's it's it impacts the lake. It impacts and again that's why I director Burke has always mentioned watch what you put on your yard because when it irrigates all that fertilizer whatever is going into the lake it's actually contributing to to the problems in the lake. So, we need to be our own best stewards of our our our property and our lake for for long-term purposes in that regards. I hope I answered your question. It was long-winded, but and just I like talking about the history of the thing. It's it's complicated. And just to be clear, you can't even go out and just dump things in the lake. No. And we have a permit, right, for our area. We can't just go out and go out and apply stuff. And again, we have to submit a plan to the regulators once we know what we're going to do or once we come up with a plan. We have to get that approved and make sure that we're not doing things. So, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Uh based off that plan, what's kind of that process, that time frame looks like? Um, good question. We have the G we actually have the consultant working on the protocols now to to streamline some of that while we're also talking to the regulators. You know, I don't know how

long the regulators take, but you know, I'm hoping no more than a month to at least get through the permitting and understand who can do what. If we have to go out for a new permit, that could take months, but if we can utilize what we have, it may streamline the whole process. We still have to submit a plan for what we're going to do, but it it just it would it would take probably three to four times the amount of time off the schedule. Okay. Thank you. Sure. We good. Yeah. The last question I have is is and I know we've talked about temperature and how that kind of golden alga really can't live in in in heat, right? So, as we know, we're we're approaching the summer months and I don't think we've had a consistency where we've had heat in a couple weeks. It's always been 95 and this random 60° temperature. So, um I know that there's been conversations of, you know, if we're able to get the permit, you know, we have a time frame at which we can do it, right? Because we know golden algae will go what? Dormant and then come back during the colder months. So regardless, it probably needs to be treated. Would that be a fair assessment? Yes. Okay. Just wanted to make sure. Thank you. And again, depending on what they, you know, like anything else, you're going to do another test right before, right? Just to verify what you don't want to put two gallons per whatever square foot if you can only use a gallon, etc. The the give and take, the pros and cons of that. And we we we do know that, you know, we've seen it. I mean, everyone's been out there. The lake looks better than it did yesterday and it looked better than it did two days ago. I mean, that's, you know, it's not where we want it, obviously, but we can definitely see that it's it's starting to change and like you said, it's it's very active. But, man, one point, communications is key. I agree. We agree with you there. When you have four or five entities involved, it's hard to do that, but I agree. We we need to get better at that and we will. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Really appreciate your time.

All right. As we've been doing over the last few months, um the opportunity to spotlight some of the great organizations that serve not only our community but our county. Um and it's called our nonprofit spotlight. And tonight we are going to spotlight um a very good organization that helps a lot of people throughout Riverside County and that is Riverside Recovery Resources. And in doing so, I would like to introduce to all of you Bernie Tro. [Applause] It's very good to finally meet you. Well, it's good to meet you all, too. Thank you for inviting me, mayor, pro mayor prom and council and audience. We welcome the opportunity to we do it, but I believe we have a short history that we put on a slide. The organization was founded by Jack Ketver in ' 85 who unfortunately um wound up with poor health and I wound up joining the board and when Jack passed away I was elected chairman of the board in 95 and have remained so since. We have two locations one in Lake Elsenor right down the street and one up in Riverside County up at the city. Our mission is to educate the community effectively on drugs and alcohol and the effect on of it and offer intervention, education and rehabilitation. We do that through a number of services starting with the county hasenced

us to do the drunk driving lessons that if you're unfortunate enough like the four people that got one this month, they'll be showing up at a school near me or us and we will give them the education about their alcohol and the possibility of retaining their license. But beyond that, we do inpatient, outpatient uh counseling on all drug and alcohol addictions. We take programs into the local schools, the high school, grade school to do again education, prevention. It's a lot easier to stop the problem before it starts than it is to stop it after it starts. And so, as much of that as we get to do, we continually put our efforts in it. One of the best the programs that lately we've been putting a lot of emphasis in is a community outreach of know your limit. We've been doing it at all the public events around the community like the rod run and etc. where surprisingly most of us who may or may not have had one too many have been lucky enough not to get a drunk driving ticket never really took a breathalyzer and have no idea what one drink or two drinks or three drinks or just a glass of wine have on you. So, we go to community events like your Fourth of July or Memorial Day or whatever and we set up a booth where we allow you to come by and actually get a breathalyzer from any liation you may have had at that event and be surprised by what happened. And it has really raised people's awareness of how little alcohol it takes to make you inebriated and fail a drunk driving test. So with that, any questions about our

organization, location, what we may be able to do together? Happy to answer them. You have any questions? Thank you for being here. Appreciate you. Thank you for asking us to come. Yeah, thank you for coming. I I I see a need for your program literally forever. I mean, talk about job security. We don't run out of customers. Yeah. So, I hopefully you don't run out run out of willpower to keep keep the fire up. So, thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. I tell you what, we uh we really do appreciate you taking the time to come here. Uh you are a very vital organization throughout Riverside County. um the court may send you to your organization, but um I know firsthand um once you're there, you have a great staff. They do great work. Um you you make you make everyone you give everyone the opportunity to feel good about themselves again. And I and I really do appreciate that. And Captain Rails and I I think we've had a conversation regarding the know your limit campaign and um maybe we can help you out with that. Okay. us know and we can set one up. We'll be happy to do so. Thank you again. Thank you, Bernie. I appreciate it. You're welcome. Thank you. As you may or may not know, we are dark in July, which means we will not be having a uh council meeting, and we will resume back in August. I would think it would be a uh appropriate for our residents if we gave our city manager um Aaron Brown the opportunity to give us an update on the police department. Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Prom, and council. Very excited to give you an update on the uh Canyon Lake Police Department. Uh it it's something that uh

is new to say, but uh in the very near future, we will all get very used to saying the Canyon Lake Police Department. Uh I will tell you I I've made the comment to each of you individually. Um I'm very excited to be a a part of of starting this. Um the amount of work uh as uh Chris man before me with the fire department knows is is tremendous. Um and frankly I'd be jealous if anybody else was doing it and I didn't get to to do it. So uh thank you very much for for this opportunity to be a part of this. I'm looking very forward to what we are going to be able to deliver to you and to the city. Uh, with that said, I've got our 2025 June police department update. We're going to uh update you on three individual areas, personnel, construction, and vehicle. I will tell you that um these are kind of be kind of the three pillars of what everything we're doing is is founded upon. Uh, and it's it's almost a little backwards because the vehicles part is the biggest dynamic of what we're trying to figure out. So, uh, I'll save that part for last. In terms of personnel, uh, I I cannot believe I'm I'm even saying this, but really well over a dozen law enforcement personnel have reached out to to join an interest list that we haven't even built yet. We're we're not to that point. And we literally have law enforcement professionals calling saying, "How do I get in? What do I do? Where do I sign up?" And we're kind of at that like just give us a little bit of time. Um, but what an awesome problem to have, right? Um, it's it's giving us an opportunity to start to partner with individuals where they're calling saying, "Hey, I want in on this. Anything I can do?" And

so you you you have a question at that time and you've got somebody on the phone. you go, hey, I have a question. How does this work? What what do I do here? So, it's been it's been nice. Um, one of the questions I got that that's very important is, uh, hey, is code enforcement going away? And at the time that we had talked, uh, about this uh, and kind of a a little bit of an update and what our budget was, we had not talked to code enforcement personnel about how this would all work. So it was really important to just deal with numbers and not talk about people or positions. Uh because I want to reiterate here every person in a position is is one of our people. So it was the respectful thing to do. It was the right thing to do. Uh so I did have an opportunity personally to sit down and talk to code enforcement and basically say look you'll be given an opportunity to train and move into a cso position if you so desire or if not the code enforcement position would go away. Um what I have done we we've got one that that communicated to us that they would like to move forward as a cso and one that said yeah that may be it for me. I don't really want to, frankly, I don't I don't want to learn another career at this time. I'm kind of wrapping it up. And so, um, I'm working with all the local city managers in my, uh, Southwest Riverside group. I I've asked them any code enforcement positions they have that come up that are in the area if they could let me know so I can let our staff know, they can get uh, right on. um they're not guaranteeing us anything, but um it's going to come with a recommendation from a fellow city manager, and that usually matters, frankly. So, there's no truth that we're getting rid of code enforcement. We're we're being dynamic in everything we're doing. And the CSOS will take on many duties and one of

those duties is code enforcement. So, in terms of how the city feels the impact of code enforcement, that will not change in any way. But who is is frankly delivering that notice may change. It may be a different person. It may be in a different vehicle or it could be in the same vehicle because the CSOS are going to share the code enforcement vehicles plus the new vehicles and we'll we'll get into that part as well. So no truth to the city abandoning our responsibility to enforce the code that this council has approved. So I want to make sure that that's clear. construction. Um, this is this is fun. We're a a a lot of uh staff and and council had heard me say like we we'd talk about what we're going to do with uh uh phase three of construction or what we doing with the old chamber. And I I'd always say don't worry about it. Leave it alone. Just leave it alone. Because as we talked about this, I knew there was a pretty high potential that council was going to either start it or or start a police department or put forth that that effort and I wanted to make sure everything was uh prepared. So, I have defended that area from everyone the clerk's over there shaking her head from uh all enemies foreign and domestic uh from that area. uh and with the intent that this this may be the direction we go. And now that we're here, we're in a position where we're prepared. So PD is going to occupy three areas of city hall. It'll be two upstairs and one downstairs. Uh current code enforcement area. So when you walk in the double doors and go to the left, that will be where the csos are and uh records for anything you need. And then right next to that area is where the deputies are currently. So, we've got a drawing for

that area and a drawing for downstairs. The area for the uh CSOS is not going to change. All we're going to be doing is putting secure glass all the way over those counters and a door to the left. So, uh they will be inaccessible other than through the secure door. And then there'll be desks behind that you can see. So, nothing's going to change in there. I don't have a drawing of that. Uh the old council chamber will become the secure area for all sworn personnel. So what we have here is a drawing of what you will see downstairs. So you can see this storage closet on the bottom. That door right to the side of it is currently the double doors that you come in from outside. Whether you take the stairs or the elevator, that whole area will be secure. It will uh be down to basically u the sworn personnel in there. and um uh membership has its privileges. I'll probably make an exception for me so that I can go down and talk to the chief and not have to wait to get escorted or uh constantly call the chief to come up and talk. So, um that'll be uh that whole area. So, you got an armory, an evidence room, uh the server room, which is also where all the the secure network uh will uh will be. Everything on the left is the POA. So if you look at that side, um certainly not that we don't trust the POA or any of that, but we have to put a secure wall there. It's just because it's an outside entity. So before any of the rumors start that the city did this cuz the PO has nothing to do with the POA. It could be anybody. It could be, you know, anyone you can think of because they're an external entity. We have to treat everybody the same. Uh the offices in the back will be lieutenant's office, maybe the sergeant's office, depending on if we do sergeants investigators. There there's ways we're looking at that. Uh chief's

office there, an interview room, holding cell, excuse me, holding cell there on the uh bottom right. Uh there's a lot of misunderstanding of what is required with a holding cell. And people think you have to have an entire jail. And um frankly, as uh Mayor Pro Tim Castillo knows, you don't want a jail now. Now is not the time to have a jail. It's regulated entirely different than a holding area. And for the the crime that we have, this uh this holding cell is is more than enough. Um I think that covers that entire area. Now, the next area, so when you walk in the hallway there, that is the door to where the current deputy's area is. When you go to that second door, that was actually a closet behind the area that we're we're extending. So, we're going to have a men's locker room and a women's locker room. Not because we have a plan to hire uh a ratio or anything, but we're prepared for anything that may happen. Uh so, um there would be men's locker room that we have right now planned with eight, uh women's locker with four. uh in the event that uh we do not have any female employees, it would be used as both. In the event we didn't have any men's employees, same thing. It would be um just an area that that is shared. We did add these showers. Um our anticipated budget was somewhere around that $600,000 range for all of this construction. We're now at about 550. the showers just got outed. So, we're we're going to be right at or a little bit under what our budget is. I'll be bringing that to council in August. Uh we are uh asking for um uh a continuation of kind of what we've done with phase one and phase two. So, council will have that to vote on uh August 11th,

15th, 12th. I know she's looking too. If the clerk doesn't know, then I feel a little bit better. U I think it's the 11th. Um 13th. 13th. Okay, there we go. So, next area maybe. Uh vehicle information. Holy bleeping cow. Um, so we did everything we could on these vehicles because that's um, as many of you know, I've come from other cities where this is one of the things we had to be on all the time and then postco you could have a year or more weight on vehicles. Uh I have never in my life seen what we went through just after COVID when we got issued VINs where I was working which means they're on the factory floor to produce. They're on the production floor and they sent us an email canceling all of our orders. Uh that mean that means that the vins were they were already processing it. So, um, we're in a position where we were going to go with the forward interceptors, kind of match up with, uh, what what sheriff's doing, uh, that whole line, and we moved heaven and earth. We set record speeds for government work. um worked with the city attorney's office who has been amazing to try to find a way where we we came up with a route where we could initial initiate the purchase match our deadline and then if council said no had it in the contract that we could cancel with no issue. We got everything done and and I'm talking um uh marathon meetings between multiple people. We get our order in to Ford and Ford said, "Oh, we decided to stop taking orders last week." And so we're scrambling trying to

figure out what to do. Um we had uh fortunately Riverside County Sheriff has been amazing. Uh met with uh Captain Rails and Under Sheriff Sharp and they made some offers like look you could there's a couple things you could do if you get into a pinch. You could buy some of our old vehicles. So we had looked at that. Um, but there wasn't any advantage to that because uh they're very frugal as well and they strip down every bit of what they put into their vehicles. So, we couldn't really buy it and get a discount. We would have to go get in line at one of the outfitters anyway. Uh, and you're getting a vehicle that Riverside County Sheriff has deemed a vehicle they don't want anymore. So, your your chances are pretty high that there's going to be something wrong with it. Your maintenance is going to increase. But we wanted to look at a frugal option. And then uh they also said, "Hey, look, we buy them at a hundred at a time. You need nine. We'll just sell you nine at our cost and we'll figure it out." But the problem with that is we didn't want to take the hit of buying nine upfront. That's why we'd been looked at looking at a it's kind of a a lease to own where you lease it and then there's a residual buyout. That gives us the ability to pay for those vehicles over 3 years. Our anticipation with what we do with these vehicles and the mileage we would have compared to many of the others is we may get 8 to 10 out of a vehicle that and I'll tell you just talking to um Armando Via from uh Meny you know they started their department in 21 they're phasing out vehicles so that's that's four years of use they get we're going to get 8 to 10 which is extremely beneficial so we did stay with the the lease model started kind of scrambling back out to what we needed to do and the answer is is simple. It's the Dodge Durango Pursuit. Uh we met with uh Dodge and this is many of you have probably heard about the 400 vehicles that the CHP just

ordered uh to blend in with traffic and uh get all these individuals that they say are driving like video game uh uh players. Uh this is the exact same vehicle uh using the same method as the CHP. The difference between Dodge and many of the other vendors is Dodge owns it all the way through. So when we lease our Dodge vehicles, it goes to the factory to be produced. It leaves the factory, goes about 8 miles down the road to an outfitter that will do everything we need them to do, and then they send it back to Dodge. Dodge sends it to us and it's it's one package. Uh very happy with how the process is. Very happy with the comparison of of what they do versus the um excuse me of what they do versus the uh interceptors. So I I'm I'm a triedand-rue interceptor guy. That's the way I was raised in my career. Um, this is like ordering these Dodges is like having a UCLA grad, you know, wear USC gear. Um, but this is what's right for the city without a doubt. And um, I don't know if you can say badass in a in a council meeting, but that is what these these Durango pursuits are. So, I'm happy that we've got that figured out and um through enterprise using the source well uh um uh what what was the word I'm looking for here? Uh uh co-op buying pre uh pre- bid cooperative purchase. Thank you. Um we're able to to go through this process. We'll have these vehicles uh for your uh approval in August. our August order. They're fine with committing to completely done and to us

by March so that we're ready to go. Um I firmly believe that anybody that tells me that they'll have us something in March means we'll probably see it in April. So we'll be fine if that happens. Uh this has been a tremendous amount of work that is one of the things I had asked council for is we'd be able to to kind of partner with somebody or some money to uh uh hire another firm or hire some professionals to do this. Uh frankly, I haven't had time to interview those professionals because I've been doing it. So um I'm just going to stay on it until I feel like it gets to a point where I need help. We've got local individuals. Uh uh we've got the retired under sheriff from Santa Barbara that lives uh in our uh our community here who has said he'd be happy to help. So I feel like we've got enough help around here as well as other um current active law enforcement professionals that we're probably going to be able to do this uh without having to bring somebody in. But uh I am not too proud to wave the flag if we get to that point. But as of right now, um I mean, as you can tell by the update, a tremendous amount of work is done. Uh we'll be submitting all of this to Cal Post next week, looking for any questions or guidance they have. Start getting all that process done. And then um uh Kayla Men, our uh administrative services uh senior analyst, has been killing it and got me some draft job descriptions so that we can start building our list uh getting things together and we'll be in a very very good spot for our August update with the anticipation that we'll have two agenda items moving us very far down this road. And with that, that's all I have, but would be happy to answer any questions

the council may have. Questions? Excited. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you, Aaron. Very cool. Madam Clerk, do we have any uh public comments on the consent calendar or non-aggenda items? Mayor, we have no public comment tonight. Excellent. Um, council, uh, would anyone like to pull a consent calendar item? If not, I move and would need a second to approve the consent calendar. I'll second. U Madame Clerk, would you uh please conduct a roll call? Mayor Poten Castillo. [Music] Just kidding. Hi, Council Member Smith. No, I like that here as well. I, Council Member Sieber. Yes. Council member Welty. I, Mayor Terry, I. Passes 5-0. It's been a day, hasn't it? Mayor Prom, you I'm here. I'm I'm good. I would like to um announce that the public hearing is now open and state the item. The item being adopt resolution establishing emergency medical services EMS program fees for fiscal year 202526 and providing for collection thereof the property tax role. And uh we have an a presentation by our city manager Steven Graham and our city manager Aaron Brown. City attorney. City attorney. City Attorney Steve. Uh this will be a very very short presentation. This is

the same thing we discussed uh uh two meetings ago uh for the uh uh public hearing. There was a required notice period. Uh staff recommendation remains that we leave EMS fees as they are. Uh so it is my hope that this is one of the quickest public hearings that the city has had. No significant legal comments, mayor. Okay, the public hearing is now closed and it is 7:44. Uh, we need a motion and a second to adopt resolution number 20 25-29. Motion. I'll second it. And madame clerk, would you please conduct a roll call vote? Mayor Potm Castillo, I. Council member Smith, I. Council member Sber. Yes. Council member Welty. I may car I. Motion passes. All right. I would also like to announce that at 7:45 public hearing is now open for the adoption of resolution approving CPI and pass through adjustments to residential solid waste and commercial rolloff solid waste rates. Uh mayor, could I could I make a comment on the last one just uh to avoid any confusion? Uh what the council just voted on was uh the resolution establishing the same program fees. There was absolutely no increase. So I want to make sure that was very clear. Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you. Uh we have a presentation by city attorney Graham and city manager Brown. I'll be handling handing that over to

community development uh director uh Mike Borhoff for the presentation on the solid waste rates. Good evening, mayor, mayor, city council. Tonight, staff is bringing forward the adoption of resolutions approving CBI and pass through adjustments to residential solid waste rates, commercial and rolloff solid waste rates. Um, in March of this year, the city received correspondence from its solid waste uh hauler, CRNR. And uh this year, as in every year, uh we've had slight increases due to CPI adjustments and also from the uh adjustments that come from the county of Riverside's waste management uh department. Um for those reasons uh uh CRNR has requested a new rate schedule which passes these adjustments through to the various uh rates. Uh in addition to this year as well CRNR is proposing additional minor rate adjustment for commercial rolloff customers only. Uh this rate adjustment is meant to address the city's annual procurement obligations under Senate Bill 1383 which is organic waste. Um by implementing this new rates adjustments, the city will not have to worry about the annual costs of funding the required procurement of compost mulch each year. And also it will not uh the city will no not need to worry about storing thousands of tons of compost mulch each year as well. Uh I know for for the last several years it's been a topic of discussions for various reasons because we weren't sure how we were going to fund the procurement of all this let alone storing however tons of mulch that we had to. So fortunately CRNR has come up with a great solution for for the city of Canyon Lake and I'm assuming

other municipalities. So that is what they are proposing. And that concludes my report. I'm open for any questions. City council have any questions for staff? I have a question. How would citizens buy some of that mulch or obtain some of that mulch now? In the past we used to give it away at different events. Right now, we currently give it away um at our citywide cleanup event. There has been some discussions with um the POA to maybe um house uh a large amount of mulch that the community can uh get from uh I think within the operations department. But there's some still a few things that we have to um go through to finalize that and if that is something that they want uh that council wants to see sort of happen here. Part of uh we did have some discussions with the POA some time ago about this uh but they want to have some agreements in place before we move forward with such a program like that for the residents. if if I could jump in. The the the obstacles to get through at this point are me and Stephen. Um because there's some uh liability agreements they want where there's total indemnification of putting the mulch over there and if that if somebody got hurt on the mulch even though it'd be on their property, the city would take that and it's just a level of liability that um sent both of us uh where we should go. So, um, there will still continue to be the events, but we may have to come up with some other alternatives in addition to that. Mr. Mayor, if I may. Yes, Council Member Wely, it's a fair question, and um, I've had the opportunity to talk to both CRNR and obviously staff on this topic. And this stuff isn't the greatest stuff that we're giving away anyways. It's not stuff that you're used to seeing at Home Depot that is a deal three for 10. You know, it's not the greatest stuff in the world. So, um, also just the complexity

of having to deal with it like they had mentioned. Um I think CRNR kudos to them for coming up with a solution because this would be a nightmare for a city our side to have to deal with. I mean just sitting down with with Mr. Borha and talking about um the complexity of trying to get rid of that many tonnage of material to our community even if the POA was taking all of it. Um it's so hard to do and you know CR really came through um for a small city like us to have to deal with that. What was the exact number? Do you remember how many tonnage we would have to deal with? The initial tons amount was about 882 tons. It's just if you guys know ton it's insane. So, um I just want to say hats off to to CRNR but also the staff here because I think you you guys fixed a big problem that we would have and um it's unfortunate that you know our our supplier our our trash you know hauler have to continue to deal with the stuff that Sacramento is throwing down their throat. I mean, it is so hard for them to do their their their job and it gets harder and harder um every single year with legislation that gets pushed on these guys and kudos to you and the hard work because it's so hard for for them just to come by and pick up our trash. Used to never be like this. It's insane. Yeah. Uh I have a quick question. Uh how many bags of mulch did we give at this last event? I think we gave it we had a total of about six pallets. Is that correct? and per pallet. I can't remember how many bags, but we I think quadruple what we gave the previous year. So, um, a lot of people that were coming to the event were asking for it. So, we can definitely increase that every year if we need to. Uh, could citizens reach out to CRNR and request that? Um, um, I'm not sure from a residents standpr. Uh it's probably something that we would kind of have to work on and figure out how we can do that with the residents

ourselves. Okay. The one more comment, Mr. Mayor, if I may. Um, I also want to give a shout out, you know, to CRNR because, you know, they were a a big partner in in the cleanup that we did this weekend as most of you saw and you know, and, you know, we as council members get complaints from our residents if the trash doesn't get picked up or if a truck has an incident with hydraulic fluid. Um, but it's Alex uh who continues to take those calls and deals with those complaints. And I just want to give credit where credit's due. Um, this man continues to deliver for Canyon Lake. And I don't know if you guys know this or not, but we happen to be one of the smallest cities in the county, but you would never know with the customer service that we get from CRNR. So, I just want to say thank you, Alex, for all the hard work that you provide us. And, you know, you deal with all of our complaints and the fact that you came through to to pick up all of our dead fish was was a big deal. So, I just want to say thank you for that. Picked up the same day. Is that correct? Yep. Yeah, exactly. Then we have to deal with it. So, I mean, the the big thing is is that he answered the phone and it happened as fast as it did. That's that's pretty incredible. So, we have a great relationship with CRNR and it it's it's it's impactful. So, thank you. Thank you for caring. America, I can back what what the council member said cuz I can call Alex anytime and I don't get what Aaron, I get, hey, Aaron, how how you doing? You know, whatever it is, let's get it going. So from the staff side, he's he's just as as uh professional and welcoming as he is from the elected side. Yeah. All right. Are there any testimony by proponents? Any testimony by opponents? Is there any response by proponents? All right.

It is 7:54 and this public hearing is now closed. Any additional discussion on behalf of council. I'll move the item if you need it. Second. Thank you. Excellent. All right. Madam clerk, will you do a uh Can we clarify the second? I'll take it. And just so the record's clear, we had zero protests on this item. Excellent. And we'll take a roll call vote. Mayor Prom Castillo, I. Council member Smith, I. Council member Steber, I. Council member Wely, I. Mayor Terry, I. House 5. All right. On to business item number 17. We have a presentation by our city attorney, Steven. Uh, thank you, mayor. Uh what you have before you is a statemandated action in updating our fire hazard severity zones. Uh Calire is required uh by state law to use uh computer models based off of fuel loading, slope, wind, uh average temperature, looking at the climate uh for the city uh and to update uh these zones uh for our properties within our city. Um you may have heard a lot of our neighboring communities having similar discussion about these maps. Uh there is very little local input um permitted by the state uh on these maps. Uh the city is allowed similar to the fire code. Uh the city is allowed uh to increase the standards based off of local conditions that we are aware of uh the fire department's aware of. Um but we may not reduce uh the these zones uh that that the state has um identified. Um so that that is that is all to say we're we're bringing this forward to you. We we

don't really have much of a choice in the matter. Um you'll also notice that we included it um as an urgency ordinance. Uh technically we're required to have this ordinance adopted by the end of July uh because you do not have a second or you don't have a meeting in July. uh we needed to have an urgency ordinance uh to get it on the books immediately. Um I did also want uh to address some issues that I've heard come up in other uh hearings that I've had on these maps. Um a lot of folks are are asking is this map going to increase my insurance rates? That's the most common complaint or concern that I hear from residents. Uh the answer to that is no. This map is not going to increase your insurance rates. The insurance companies do not, generally speaking, refer to this map when making their risk assessments. However, when they make their risk assessments, they do make those risk assessments based off of very similar data and very similar considerations uh such as the nearby fuel, the slope, the wind, the climate. And so the determinations from insurance companies on what the relative risk is of insuring a particular property uh usually line up pretty closely to the fire hazard severity that has been indicated on this map. Um so you know obviously fire insurance is a is a large problem in the state of California at the current moment. Uh big topic at the state level. Uh the state attempts to regulate the insurance uh market. Uh but the insurance market is a is a private uh enterprise like any other. They're in it to make money. And when you have entire portions of Los Angeles burning to the ground, uh they have to pay to rebuild all of that. Uh that's that's not the kind of business where you expect to make money unless you charge pretty large premiums. So that that's that's a state and national level issue. uh it's not going to be impacted by this map, but I wanted to address it just because

it is something that I've heard pretty consistently come up. Uh happy to any answer any questions and I know that the fire chief has been has been uh working on getting this uh the word out on this uh since we received it from CalFire. He if you have any questions of a technical nature, I'm sure that the fire chief's prepared to to answer those. Thank you. Any questions for staff? Madame Clerk, are there any uh public comment cards on this item? Mayor, there are not. Um, I would ask for a motion and a second. There we go. Now I'm having problems with it. Real quick, what's our rating, Chief? Yeah, you two. I'm sorry. Our ISO rating or our current ISO rating is a three. We are in the process of getting a new rating done by ISO. We've had two meetings with them and it's a long process. Um, these maps really won't have an impact on that rating as well. Perfect. That's what I need to know. Thank you. If you're seeking a motion, I'll I'll make it. Need a second. I'll second it. Madam clerk, could you conduct a roll call vote? Mayor Pim Castillo. I. Council member Smith. I. Council member Sieber I. Council member Wely I. Mayor Terry I. Motion passes. All right. On to committee and council reports. Would like to begin. I'll go I'll be quick. Council member Smith. Um I'll be I'll be fast. Uh busy busy weekend. Um saw most of you. Uh city cleanup event with the POA went phenomenal. Thank you for those that participated. was able to be there to help give out pizza to the volunteers. Um ribbon cutting this Saturday. We got to uh the mayor did a phenomenal job bringing on Iris. Good job um Mr. Mayor.

I thought that was um pretty incredible the just the amount of people that showed up to um Iris's ribbon cutting to you want to take a public comment. Mayor, do you want to take a general public comment? Certainly. Council okay with that? Sure. Absolutely. Okay. [Music] Sorry about that, guys. Can you hear me? Kevin the I think I know most of you. Just want to talk about the lake. I'm surprised there's nobody else here talking. Just fix our lake, please. Uh I feel safe in my house. Seems like we're buying a police. Who doesn't want a police department? Everybody wants a police department. Everybody loves ice cream, too. But uh can we afford a police department? Um I don't believe we can. You're going to have a hard time convincing that, but what we do need is a clean lake. Anything you can do, any help you need, Jeremy, with leisure. I didn't know what leisure was two weeks ago. Uh, what maybe you can just to get the information out there. From what I understand, the water district just took some accountability and they're going to do something. That's what I got from that. And they're not going to use copper sulfate. They're going to try something else, which is great news. But, uh, the lake's really important. I cannot believe the room's not full because I don't think it was on your agenda. So, just uh fix our lake. Uh that's the main thing I just wanted. I can't believe nobody's up here talking about it. I moved here personally for Canyon Lake and I would joke around with Darcy. We the same thing. It's Canyon Lake. Uh when you're unique and valuable, uh you can name your price. The Canyon Lake eventually is going to probably become pretty valuable because we're the only game in town. Uh up in the high desert there's uh I can't think of the lake right now, but they have winter in the high desert. We don't really have winter down here. So it's like in 2008 was the worst financial situation since the Great Depression. Everybody had an iPhone. It's because it was unique and valuable. Canyon Lake is unique and

valuable. I heard a lot of it your last meeting how we're unique. So we need a police department because we're unique. We are unique and we're extremely valuable with our lakes. So, I feel really bad for the fisherman. I feel bad that nobody's in here talking. So, I just want to take a minute of your time. And uh please, Jeremy, let us know if you need help. I'm I don't even understand ledge's rules particularly. I've read the the mission statement, but the water district just stepped up and said they're going to do something about it. So, that's good good news. Our lake is sick. That's uh we're not really pointing fingers at at anybody. It's uh to me, it's overwhelming to think about the wershed is 700 miles. That's what they say. So that's that's a lot of pollutants that are coming our way. So that's all. Thank you. Would you like to resume? Yes, I would. For the gentleman that uh gave the public comments, I'm available in about 15 minutes after this meeting to talk to you. Um all right. So city cleanup event went phenomenal this weekend. Um ribbon cutting, Mr. Mayor. Kudos to you. Good job. We had a huge turnout at Iris's event. I thought that was awesome. I I would say there's at least 70 or 80 people there. Largest ribbon cutting I have attended. Absolutely huge. Big turnout. Loved being in there. Thank you uh to the council members that were there. It was awesome seeing you all and um it's just cool to be part of that. So, you did a good job, Mr. Mayor. Uh as far as regional boards, um go figure. Lewa canceled their meeting. June 21st was supposed to be our uh my second board meeting and it's got cancelled. So, I'm a little pissed off about that, but I'll let that be that. Um, we did at RCTC today, we approved to move forward with a $1.8 billion budget. And, uh, moving forward with RTA as well, uh, we move forward with our fiscal budget, um, with that agency as well, just over about 110 million. So, um, things are happening regionally. And with that,

I'll yield my time. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Council member Stever. Yeah, I'll be fast and brief. Uh it's been busy. Appreciate filling in for the L USD authentication. So really outside of U state of the city with some of my colleagues here for city of Tmacula. That was great regionally. Um but communitywise uh a few weeks ago right before Memorial actually got to spend the morning with our past councilwoman Dne. Uh and her and I spread American flags all throughout her neighborhood. And so that was kind of awesome being a part of that. Um, and that was, uh, for Fiesta Days. That was my first time in the parade and actually seeing everything outside of my street. So, uh, it was great seeing the different parks, all the different activities, and I also got to help out with the mermaids club being in their dunk tank, uh, for a while. So, that was kind of great seeing everyone. Um, but really last, I want to end with as we're coming up on a Father's Day weekend. Means a lot to me and I'm looking forward it with my boys. But uh gentlemen, happy Father's Day and to all the other fathers out there in in our community. Thank you. Thank you very much. That's right. That dunk tank is slightly dangerous. I think Zebra was first on the list though, right? Third clean. You got No, I needed it up. It was a first from council. Yeah, first council. Council. So that's I woke up a little sore the next day. You got to lean forward. I don't think I'm volunteering for that anymore. I did it last year. I was done. So, Councilman Wely, the uh let's get the microphone working. You have to have a magic thumb. Uh this morning, I attended South Riverside elected officials. They're taking a trip to Sacramento to talk to uh state officials about getting funding for the roads in in Southwest Riverside. And of course, that includes the 15, which includes all of Riverside. So, they're

sending reps from Menafy, Myrietta, Tmacula, WRCOG, RCTC. They're all going up. They're going to meet with state legislators and state commissions and bang bang on them. Um there's a feeling we're kind of like uh the unknown area in the state. Uh they they don't know if we're part of LA or if we're out in the middle of the boonies right now. I think a lot of the state thinks we we live in the boonies. So, it's nice to get some facetime and and get some clarification about who we are up to our legislators. Um the other comment I have is about the 4th of July. Um, as we all know, it can get pretty crazy around here. I I kind of have a personal rule. I don't call anyone into the gate that day that I wouldn't invite into my house to stay. So, if someone comes up to you and says, "Hey, can our little league come down to the Fourth of July, uh, try to refrain from calling in 35 kids and parents you don't know and filling up our beaches. Uh, it gets crowded. Uh, we like to have guests. It's great thing to do. Uh but but try to at least limit yourself to guests that are personally important to you. Uh we've all been here. I I look in the room at people and how long we've all been here and we've seen the years where it's gotten really crazy and it's been a very a big detriment to those of us who live here. So just be aware and be be conscientious of your your uh fellow citizens. Um the other thing is I attended Skagg. Uh Skagg has uh is getting ready for the Olympics. So the Olympics are coming and everybody get where you're going to hear about the traffic. You're going to hear about the ways to get tickets. So uh it is coming. Uh I also attended T now and they had a safety presentation in Lake SNOR about railroad canyon primarily the Elsenor piece and basically the the the common thing is slow down. They are going to do some uh some upgrades to the safety, but no matter how many upgrades you do, there's always a safe speed for the conditions and what the road is. And it appears, especially down by the church,

that uh people are going much faster than safe conditions. And there's been some severe accidents down there. So, uh we're of course looking at our section of Railroad Canyon for safety improvements. So, please uh slow down. It's not It feels like a great place to drive, but it is not a a raceway. So, that's all my comments. Where are you going tomorrow night? Oh, tomorrow night we're going to the to the W arcog uh is it called the annual general assembly? General Assembly meeting. So, we'll be going down there. That will be an exciting uh meeting. Um and the the bullfrog, what's the admiral's name? McCraven. Okay. Admiral McCraven. Uh the one that says he wrote the book about the importance of making your bed. He'll be there. I'm excited to see him and to hear him. So, Mr. Mr. Mayor, real quick, I just wanted to give a shout out to Council Member Wely. Thank you for going to those T now meetings. Um they're they mean a lot to me and my schedule does not allow to to attend them. Um they're really cool and I'm just happy that you're able to go. So, we have a Canyon Lake presence cuz we usually host at least once a year and um we did a little bit ago, but uh thank you for going to those. Those are really important. You're a workhorse. Yeah, you're making it happen. We really appreciate it and our residents should recognize that. Mhm. Right. Mayor Pro Tim Castile. Thank you. Um, I wanted to say congratulations to all the graduates because school is out for summer. I know I have a a ninth grader and a seventh grader now. I know um, Council Member Welty's son is off to college and Steber has a ninth grader now. And then what is Joshy? uh fifth fifth grade and then you know first grade and third grade and third grade. So exciting. So um just a reminder to be careful because now we

will have more children out and about in the community. Um on that note, we are still looking for junior lifeguards. Um, tryyouts in partnership with the POA will be at the lodge pool on June 21st at 8:00 until 10. Parent information will be there um from the lifeguards. This uh partnership is also with the Lake Elsenor School District this year, which is providing bus transportation. Um, so there's still room on the buses for those lifeguards. Our Canyon Lake specific uh session for Lake Paris this year will be the 21st of July to the 1st of August, which understandably is a little bit later in the season, but it is basically reserved for Canyon Lake kids. So, we're super lucky to have that um from the Cal State or California State Parks. So, we're we're really grateful for that. Um, and I wanted to say that Darcy Burke is amazing and I'm grateful that she continuously makes herself available by internet, Facebook, cell phone for our residents. And for those residents who do not take the time to educate themselves, please feel free to reach out to her. She is constantly advocating for those communications. She is a resource. She's very approachable. I don't know how she has the hours in the day that she does, but she will make time for you to speak to you and answer your questions. Additionally, she is a Canyon Lake resident and the other members of the water district, as kind as they are, are not. Her interests are absolutely local. So, please reach out

to her if you have questions rather than um making assumptions. I think that everyone would benefit for the information that you learn and can share. Well said. Thank you. Great thing about being mayor is you guys all basically knock off my list by the time it gets here. But I I do want to go back to Saturday afternoon. The reason I moved here 25 years ago was the community and had an opportunity to go thank all the volunteers who worked on the lake and they're the reason I'm not leaving. We love I was talking to uh Council Member Smith. It's a living body and it's sick and we got to take care of it. I assure you board members, council members, POA staff, city staff, they recognize the urgency. They recognize our residents in thanking our residents on Saturday. And I I spoke to um Council Member Smith about this. You know, there's a sense of, hey, I helped out the lake, but there was also a little bit of dismay. They just went out and scooped up fish. And we we we you know, a lot of attention on the gold gold the the bald eagles up in

Big Bear. We don't always equate that to to fish, but that is our wildlife. It was pretty horrific what they had to see, what they had to do. And I I want you to know, I want our residents to know that we recognize that. More importantly, we are going to be okay. We're going to get through this. And hopefully when we do, we're we're not only helping our lake today, but we are actually doing things that will ensure that we are prepared in the future. I think I have I think uh council member Wely have seen actions not taken in the past that that information would have been golden had we had it this year. And I am committed. I know I hesitate to speak on behalf of any other council member. I am committed to making sure that we take every possible advantage of the attention of the information that we receive and that we apply that as a lesson learned and a game path for the future. Um, Fourth of July is coming up. We ready, Captain? Um, I want you to have a great time with your family. I want you to breathe a little bit, enjoy, uh, Independence Day, and, uh, be safe. And with that, we will meet again on August 13th, and this meeting is adjourned. [Music] We may