City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you. Thank you.

Doesn't sound like it at all. There we go. Good evening, everyone. How we doing? Good? All right, we're going to rock and roll. It is 630. If you all don't mind, can you please stand? Because we start in prayer here. That's how we kind of do it.

So.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for an incredible evening in Canyon Lake, Lord. Thank you that we get to come together, Lord, and hopefully make Canyon Lake an incredible place to live and work together. And thank you for all that you give us, and in your name, amen. Councilmember Terry, would you please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

Reading begin.

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, Madam Clerk. For the record, 631. Let's do a roll call.

Mayor Pro Tem Castillo? Here. Council Member Stieber?

Here.

Council Member Terry?

Here.

Let the record reflect Council Member Welty is absent. Mayor Smith?

Here.

You have a quorum.

I appreciate that. Mr. City Attorney, you got anything on closed session?

Yes, Mayor and Council, and good evening. On the second item on the closed session agenda, the Council gave settlement direction by consensus. Thank you. Thank you.

Moving on, Council comments.

Council Member Stever, will you kick us off this evening? Absolutely. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll be brief. Good evening, City of Canyon Lake. I appreciate everyone joining us tonight. Yesterday, I got to kick off the student of the month with Lake Elsinore Unified School District. It's an awesome event. Once a month, eight students out of 26,000 get chosen. And it's even incredible when it's Canyon Lake resident, which I'll get to showcase one here a little later. So between now and the rest of the remaining of the school year, I'll be attending the school district towards the beginning of the month, honoring the student of the month for that time. um safa which is also the jpa of animal friends of the valley we are holding a special board meeting on 9 21 we're looking into potentially maybe hiring uh internally within the county some auditing services that might be able to bring some money back to the members so i'll keep the Community updated on that. I'm looking forward to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of our new training pump pod on 928. So please don't forget to add that to your calendar and come out in the morning. I'll probably be told by Director Burke and Chief Latendris today. So they'll give you the exact times. Speaking about Chiefs, I have us a ringer. But I just found out we're not playing together. So... Looking forward to seeing you guys and the rest of the team in the Battle of the Cities here coming up. Lastly, I just want to make a reminder that Veterans Day is coming up on November 11th. And Debbie Gagarin with PAC, RAP, and POST, with also support from the city, the POA. the Merchants Association, and also the Chamber of Commerce. We'll be hosting, Debbie will be hosting it. We're helping support, but we'll be hosting our Veterans Day event up here in the town center at the Veterans Memorial. Debbie has done a great job planning this event, though she is a little bit behind. So any support from the community, please go see PAC Wrap and Post. I know the city has made a contribution correct towards the event, so we're concludes my comments. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Stever, Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you. I'll be brief as well. Nice to see everyone and the smiling faces of our residents. Two things. Don't forget, Friday is September 11th, and the fire station will be honoring the fallen. I'm sure the chief will get into some of that in his comments to make sure that the community knows that they can come out to that event. It will be early in the morning, but we would love to see you even though it's on a Friday. Again, I wanted to congratulate the police department on a great first month. The stats came out. I thought they were impressive. But more impressive is the comments from the residents. I've had multiple conversations with people who have seen our patrol out and about. I've personally experienced... having to slow down on railroad Canyon because they're parked in the median, which I was really grateful for that reminder. Um, just a really positive experience. And I think the residents have been very outspoken on the social media and it's just, it's wonderful to see. And so thank you so very much. And then just a reminder, and I'm sure the city manager will talk about it a little bit more, but pumpkin bash is coming up in October.

Thank you, Madam Mayor, Pro Tem, Council Member Terry.

Pro Tem, would you like to come up for just a moment? Before I get started there, great job, Chief. I drive down railroad every morning, 445, and it is a noticeable difference in the speed. I mean, you've still got people rushing through there way, way too fast, but the numbers of people that are actually going the speed limit is – is much greater and that's a credit to you. And I mean, sometimes I would drive to the gym and that's a terrifying ride when you got people coming up on 70 miles an hour. So very appreciative, great first month, very proud of that entire, your entire department. Great job. God, just one meeting. I couldn't get through the Pledge of Allegiance. 25 years, Steve?

25 years, yes, sir.

Such an overused phrase. Never forget. But it seems as the year goes on, the years go on, the voices of wanting to forget become louder and louder. I don't care where you came from. I don't care what your religion is. But if you live in the United States of America, we have an obligation to always honor those. You gave everything. We must honor the ideal, and those two words never forget.

Chief. Chief. Thank you, Councilmember Terry. And as Mayor Pro Tem Castillo also already noted, we would like to welcome and invite the entire community to our fire station on Vacation Drive on Friday morning at 8.30 in the morning as we reflect and remember the events of 25 years ago. There's a lot of us in this room that have those memories and do recall what we were doing that morning, the beautiful Tuesday morning that it was. And as Councilmember Terry said, we never want to forget and we always want to remember And we don't want the pain to go away from Remember, but we want to start the morning, and as I was thinking about it today, start celebrating the heroes of that day. And the heroes just weren't the firefighters, the police officers. The heroes were the spontaneous people that helped people evacuate both the North and South Towers. that helped the people at the Pentagon and that fought back the attackers on Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. So again, if you're available, it'll be a very somber ceremony as we have several speakers, some patriotic music. We will rededicate our fire station to the legacy of Thomas Hannafin, a firefighter that had connections here. in Canyon Lake and I'll even throw a sampler out there. Family members are flying in for the event on Friday. So it'll be very special to meet the people that help dedicate some of the memorials we have at the fire station. So we hope you see you there Friday at 8.30 at the fire station. Thank you, sir.

Should also remind people that the Property Owners Association also holds an event in the evening. And I would challenge all of you to make it to one or the other. Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Council Member Terry. All right, I'll close this out. I think a very important note that needs to be made, and I want to give a shout out to our Water Board Director, Darcy Burke, for leading the charge on our cemetery fight. Thank you. Thank you for all the hard work that you've done. And there's several other community stakeholders. And it's interesting because for those of you that had the opportunity to go to the Planning Commission meeting a few months back and be surrounded by Canyon Lakers, it's a pretty powerful thing what we can do in such a small little community. i just want to give a you know just just a reminder and i know that social media has its ways but um we've been fighting on this for for a long time and i know that this community is not willing to give up and this community continues to show up and just like we saw the passion council member terry for something that we need to be reminded on september 11th i do believe that this community is so unique in the way that we come together And we need to do that on this fight, and we need to keep doing it. So I want to give a shout-out to you, and thank you for those efforts.

And those of you that are involved, it's important that we continue to do that.

In other news, selfishly, I'm going to promote the Car Club, which is going to have their car show on October 3rd on a Saturday. It is the greatest event, one of them, in Canyon Lake. They do such a great job. They've been so phenomenal. And, you know, they're also coming out to the state of the city October 15th to also support the city and do a car show that's going to be pretty incredible so there's a lot of things going on and I kind of want to end my notes on this there's a lot of noise out there right now and sometimes it's heartbreaking for me just because I hate to see a community divided over certain things but at the end of the day I'm reminded of the importance of being positive but also as I always say and you hear me say this that we are Canyon Lake Strong no matter what happens and with that I know it's an honor for each and one of us up here to serve the residents of Canyon Lake. And at least for me, I will continue to be as positive as I possibly can because that's just my nature. But I want to say thank you to the residents who've reached out in the last few weeks. Just be reminding me on how amazing of a community we truly have here and we need to keep it that way. So with that, we're going to move along with the meeting. We're going to go jump right into Councilmember Terry. You're going to do a certificate of recognition.

i am take it away bud how many people know joan k ah you guys wave to her when you're driving by and she's walking right that's how we met i was on a golf i was on my golf cart i was going golfing and it's probably about the 1200th time i've seen her walking down canyon lake drive and i i decided to stop and talk and We've kind of built a great relationship. Tonight, we do recognize Canyon Lake resident who has become a familiar face around the community. If you've been out and about in Canyon Lake, chances are you've seen Joan walking. Since moving to Canyon Lake in 2022, Joan has jumped right into the community life. She's active with the Lions Club. the garden club, plays pickleball, volunteers at the senior center bingo night, and is always willing to lend a hand. Now check this out. How many people don't know Joan? Wow. Have I got a stat for you then. Joan is also quite the athlete. After completing 10 marathons, she traded her running shoes for walking and now has logged more than 1,700 consecutive days of walking for nearly five years. And how far do you walk?

Goodness gracious.

Yeah.

At least you're going to a great establishment.

Is that some mayor's favorite? If you just said McDonald's, we may have taken all this back. At least their Coke product, but still. Joan says the best part of all those miles are the friendly people that she meets along with the way. Tonight, we are pleased to recognize Joan for this impressive milestone and for being such an active and familiar part of Canyon Lake. Joan, would you please come up front? Now, did you once have a story? Did you get bit by a dog once? Yeah. Why? Right? Why?

And that was a pretty scary deal. It was. In fact, I had to have surgery. I've never, ever been in the hospital. I was never even born in a hospital, let alone have surgery. And at age 74, for the first time, I had surgery, even got an ambulance, and I was walking with a...

Speaking of ambulance.

Speaking of ambulance. But I'm here, and yes, I do walk with a taser, and I haven't really been back. So I'm trying to go back to the garden, but I need water. So somebody's got to walk. So I am walking back, but I haven't walked with a can. I don't know which is worse, with a can or without a can. Well, it's a lot safer now because of that.

Hey, congratulations. Thank you so much. And I'm hoping you would honor us by taking the Do we have your family come up as well?

There's a lot of room up here. Have them all come up.

We're not just friends. We're family. Right there. No, it's good. Please do. Get everyone in here.

This is fun. I think we did it.

One, two, three, jump.

Thanks for coming.

i think i said something like we're approving second readings being approved tonight or something like that because we did a video and i said it in the video okay thank you for doing that council member terry All right, with that, Councilmember Stieber, you get to present the student of the month.

Well, as I was stating in my council comments, yesterday started the student of the month with Lake Elsinore Unified School District. So I'm really honored to bring up our first Canyon Lake resident of the 2026-2027 school year that received student of the month from LAUSD. But tonight, the city of Canyon Lake wants to provide a certificate of recognition for Trinity Wheelock. And in the past, I usually kind of give a little speech about our student, but I've asked Clark from now on, I'd love the student to be able to come up here and really tell us about their goals and their passions and where they're headed. Because all I'm going to do is say, she wants to be a pro golfer and we're all going to watch her on TV sooner or later, but there's more to it. So Trinity, please come up. We'd like to hear from you.

Is that good for you? Thank you.

a three-sport athlete. I played golf with my freshman year. I was on the varsity team for the senior year, and I was on the varsity basketball team for the sophomore year.

Nice.

Also, a student-athletic junior at Upton Island School for the football team, the basketball team, and the baseball team. And I am also a freshman program and you don't know what POSA is. It's a national organization in California. And it was top 36 in the world.

Wow.

What do you want to do when you graduate?

Okay, so for a really long time, I was Um, since I started doing sports medicine, I've been, I've wanted to be in sports medicine. And I want to do it quite well in my 30s. And hopefully, I'll do it.

Nice.

Much better. Um, but, yeah, that's really my goal right now. And maybe he was like, I don't want to do sports medicine. So, ooh, he's like, I don't want to do sports medicine. Sharing that passion with me. I don't know. I don't know.

Well, awesome. Congratulations. And here's another certificate to add to your resume to hopefully get all those scholarships that you're needing. But congratulations. We have a whole year ahead of you still, but you are our first student this year.

So congratulations.

What an impressive residence.

Yeah, just a little bit. Yeah. I'd like to join us. And... I also hope we have a little bit for you as well. Mama right there. Great job. Congratulations. Congratulations.

Good job. Yeah, she did a great job. Yeah.

Yeah, it's like, what?

All right. Congratulations is definitely in order. Very impressive. We are moving on now to presentations, and we're going to go a little out of order. We're going to go jump right into our nonprofit spotlight. Councilman Mark Terry, take it away.

Thank you. say at every meeting we try to on a monthly basis at one of our meetings highlight um not only a 501c but these these organizations that really pick up the gaps right and um tonight is probably going to be one of my favorite organizations i have some history with one of my neighbors It's my pleasure to welcome Jennifer Evans. She is the Director of Development for Region 3 with the Special Olympics Southern California, serving Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Those are pretty big counties. Special Olympics Southern California provides year-round sports, health, education, and leadership opportunities for 25,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities. One could argue that, right? You'd be amazed. Please join me in welcoming Jennifer and hearing more about the incredible work Special Olympics is doing in your community.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm not the...

Thank you. Thank you. I'm not the star of the show by any means because... I am honored. See, this is your fault because every time I cry, but it's because I love love, right? So you get to be with Nikki tonight and also Heather. They play softball together. My team play softball, tomato softball. Nice. And swimming. And they have more medals among them than they can probably count. We stopped taking counts. Right? Right? So I wanted to tell you a little bit about what we do tonight. But I'm very honored that I know most of you already. Josh Stieber, it was so good to see your face. It made me feel better. Excuse me. Yes.

My dad. Your dad. Is a coach. Whoa.

Yes, dad. Nice. Love that.

Thank you.

I have Chief Rells here who is on our council, and I couldn't do it without him and the support of our law enforcement. So a little bit about Special Olympics, and I don't like to read off the slide because it, you know, you can read the numbers. You can go anywhere to our website. What you can't do is spend time with these lovely individuals all the time, right? Yes. So Nikki travels everywhere with me and now Heather may be doing that as well. So we will go together, right? I love that you said intellectual disabilities. I really don't like the disabilities word, but that's what we have. It's in your blood.

Abilities.

Different abilities, right? It's different abilities. I love that because you guys see things that I don't see, feel things I don't feel. Nikki didn't know. I've had not a good day today. And what does she do? She gets in my car and she's like, turn on her favorite Christian. She puts on her mask, takes a nap, and I'm crying coming down the road because I'm like, how did she know I needed that today? That's just part of what Nikki does. She just knows what people need. Feelings and love. Feelings and love. So that's what we do. We're serving all of our athletes. We say 8 to 108 athletes. There is no term limit, time limits. We are in schools. Thank you, Josh Stieber, for your work on that. We just signed up to Mescal Canyon today and Elsinore doing our unified program where our gen ed students work with our special education students and teach them what it means to be unified and part of the inclusion revolution. And Trinity, Trinity needs to be a part of that. What an amazing woman, right? She's going to be a star. She already is. Like you said, we over 25,000 athletes, 11 of the Southern California counties. Mine are the largest. It's bigger than my whole entire home state. I don't know what y'all are thinking. Riverside and San Bernardino, we do all year round. When I got hired to Special Olympics, I came from Michelle's Place Cancer Resource Center, which is near and dear to my heart. And people said two things to me. They said, oh, so you do the games every four years. It's so much more than that. We're in your local schools every day. We're competing all year round. Right. Summer games, fall games, bowling in this, you know, all the time. So we're constantly moving and working. And we can only do that because we have support of our communities. So we're always out telling our stories. Right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Right. What it looks like is sports and competitions. I talked about the unified programs in the schools. Our LETR partnership is our law enforcement. It's law enforcement torch run is what it stands for. If you're a runner. And tip a cop. And tip a cop. So we did one last night. Yeah. Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse. You know, we need the support of the law enforcement worldwide. They are our biggest driving force for raising funds. Because if I bring chief in with me, people pay attention. Right. And so and we know that because they're speeding less. Right. Too much. Right. Right. Yeah. So we heavily rely on our law enforcement and our community events and partners. I've got the one at the end because I want to make sure you guys are all there. What you can do to help. Obviously, you guys support each other so much. I mean, it's evident, it's clear. I'm here because this beautiful lady, Darcy, who I met many years ago in Rotary, and she is just a beacon of light for so many. Volunteering, right? It's what we do. What would you do? My goodness, how many things do you volunteer at, young lady? Yeah. Yeah. I was impressive. Of course, there's sponsors. It is no cost to compete. Right. And to get to our games, we actually have athletes that will go to Chile next year for our world games. And we talk about all that. Are you going? Yes. All right. I'm so far behind on the news. The biggest thing is come out to our competitions. We have them all year round. We'll have our softball, which these ladies will be competing at, at Big League Dreams in Paris, right? Galloway Downs will have soccer. We have a golf. Volleyball. Volleyball. We have so many things, right? Tennis. It goes on and on. And then just be a champion for us. Tell our story. Tell Nikki's story. Tell Heather's story, right? Right. Because we're why we're out here every day trying to make a difference in our community and show that just because we're all different doesn't mean that we all... You never called up the letter T. That is not okay.

Right, okay. We cannot win.

If you cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. Yes, let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. So thank you so much for having us. Please join us on September 20th. I know that Rails will be there for sure because he is voluntold by me. For our 25th anniversary Temecula Torch Run, if you need me, there is... Oh, I'm sorry, Nikki. There is my information. You can contact me anytime. Darcy has my information. Josh does. And I know Chief Rose does. But please reach out. We can't do this without volunteers. So I say anyone can give a check. I can look at you, Mayor, and say, you know, I need money. And You can go make more money. What you can't get back is time. That's your most valuable possession you can give someone. And so we're here to say, help us and give us our time. Help us get volunteers. We need a four to one ratio for them to compete. We could serve more athletes if we had more volunteers. So we're asking for your most precious gift, but it's because these ladies and all of our athletes deserve it, right?

Correct.

Correct. Is there anything else that I didn't say that you would like to say, ladies?

You ladies are awesome.

I would. Would you like this one?

Yes.

May I say something special? Yes.

Something special in this month, I have open arms surgery. Last tent at the church, someone touched my forehead. So special. Support my open-heart surgery because I love it a lot. I'm going to celebrate the 10th and 11th, and that's all I believe in, in my own heart, that Pac-Man open-heart surgery. She's doing 50 surgeries. This time, not 50. 51 surgeries at Phoenix, Arizona.

Wow. 51 surgeries. So if you can get out and compete and go win the gold. Yeah, I never let go. You never let go?

That's the key.

I don't think any of us have an excuse, right? Correct. Correct. Well, thank you so much for hearing us out. There's so much more I could tell you. And I would love to have lunch, coffee. We'll all come together. Or love. Or love. We always take hugs, right? Always. And we'll go to In-N-Out and have lunch, right? I'd love that too.

Okay. All right.

Thank you so much for your time. Thank you.

Absolutely incredible. That's so inspiring. Unbelievable. Thank you for being here. All right, we're going to go up the list. We're going to hear from our Canyon Lake Chamber of Commerce. I think President Johnny is here along with Rick. Are you guys both here? You guys have been busy with Summer Bash and all the things you guys have been working on. Unbelievable. Rocking and rolling. It doesn't matter if it's 105 degrees. You guys are still just rocking and rolling. I felt like 125.

Incredible events. Good evening, Mayor Smith, Mayor Pro Tem Castillo, council members, city staff. I do want to talk about the summer bash. We had 47 vendors. Yeah. And 17 were Kenya Lake businesses. So we're very proud of that. We generated $480 in one day business license for the city. which was a good thing. Mayor Smith, I want to thank you and your father. I still can't hear out of my right eye, but it was fun to have you there. My right eye. Eye and ear. I'm glad the race fuel got in there. That's right. Thank you. I was going to say thank you to Council Member Welty for attending, so I'll pass that information on. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem Castillo and Council Member uh terry for champion uh this uh summer bash we it was a great event we heard nothing but great feedback uh from everyone and uh city staff and uh thank want to thank the local businesses uh for for attending we we cannot do it without you and of course locally rooted in partnering uh partnership with them they've been a huge partner uh with the chamber um they've helped us out tremendous

Did anyone have the chance in the audience to go to that event? It was on a Saturday night. It was unbelievable. I mean, it was hot when it started, but right around 630, it was like the floodgates. I mean, the work that you all did and the partnership with Locally Rooted, I mean, incredible event. I hope it comes back next year. So I thought it was amazing.

Yeah, we're looking to do it a couple times, more so in the evening. Yeah. Maybe a spring bash. yeah summer bash so i mean you had a bull there yeah i mean my kids were on that it was yeah you know it was great it's pretty incredible uh also a couple more items uh we want to finish strong uh together so we have a promotion uh for gold membership it's free for the last quarter and then uh for platinum membership it's 112 dollars prorated uh to join the chamber. So we're looking for those, uh, individuals. And then lastly, September 21st, we will have meet the candidates forum that the Kenya Lake chamber of commerce will be hosting. We're looking forward to that. That is September 21st, six o'clock to seven 30 in the holiday Bay room. Uh, I, uh, encourage the community, come out, be informed, ask questions, and I think it'll be a good time. So, uh, come out and meet the candidates September 21st, And I will turn it over to the count of backhanded compliments, Mr. Rick Tobin. Thank you.

All right, good evening. First off, we'd like to congratulate Sips Bar for being our business of the month. I've got to say, during the summer bash, when it seemed like it was 120 and Florida-like humidity, when I was dying, I kept going into Sips Bar because their AC is so cool, and I would buy their frozen lemonade. Every time I go in there, that is the best frozen lemonade I've ever had. And we both have a sweet tooth. I think we both lost a few pounds that day working and... We like to eat cookies and candy, so that was nice. The humidity helped us lose a couple pounds for that. And Johnny and I were talking about, so July, we set a record for 12 members in one month. But Johnny happened to mention earlier today, within a 30-day span, we had 11 new members recently. So we're continuing the pace. We're trying to finish strong with what he was talking about for the fourth quarter for new members. So tomorrow night, it's our Business Connect Mixer at Sports Stop. We love the food there. Rhea is such a gracious host. So we hope to see you there. So it's tomorrow, 5.30 to 7. We've got the Rams 49ers game on in Australia. And then September 22nd at the Golf Club, it's our third Taco Tuesday Golf Mixer. Now, I love this event. We have the head pro there, Pat Kimball, out there and one of his associate golf pros there. We have all 15 tea boxes. We have a lot of booths. They bring out the taco buffet, a private bartender. We have a putting contest. So that's Tuesday, September 22nd, 5 to 7. So we hope to see you there. And lastly, our Battle of the Businesses event in Sierra Park inside the gate. Again, Saturday, September 22nd. I'm sorry, 26, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Right now we have eight teams signed up. We're trying to get to at least 10. Our defending champions are service champions, so good luck to any teams going against them. Very fit guys. So thank you for your time, and have a good evening.

You better get a free lemonade after that whole commercial you just did.

It's the best frozen lemonade ever.

I love it. Appreciate you both. Thank you so much. Thank you. all right next we have our vice president over at the poa laney i think yes there you are how are you yes i even have heels on tonight good evening mayor smith council members

We've just wrapped up another successful holiday weekend in Canyon Lake with so many opportunities for our residents to get out in the lake, enjoy our amenities, and spend time with friends and family. And now we quickly turn our attention to fall and Halloween and all the activities that come with it, although at 90-something degrees outside, Mother Nature apparently did not get the memo that fall is coming. I wanted to give you a quick update on a few things happening with the POA. First, the board's published our goals for the 26-27 year. We have five overarching goals. exercise increased fiscal control and financial management, enhance community safety and security, maintain and enhance association facilities and amenities, demonstrate effective leadership, and enhance the community member experience. Now, obviously, there's a number of drivers that build to those goals, but these will be the five priorities that will guide all of our decision-making over the course of this next year. Beyond these goals, there are two areas receiving a great deal of our attention right now. The first is our lake, its health and its long-term quality. We often talk about the recreational rights when we discuss the lake, but I think we all know the lake represents much more than recreation. It's really the heart of this community. Protecting the health and water quality has to remain one of our highest priorities. The sonar systems have now been installed and operating for approximately two weeks. We are anxious to evaluate what impact they're having as we get through this first month. We also continue to explore the use of the floating islands. There've been some positive results. One of the challenges, those are in lakes that are, I would say topographically much simpler than Canyon Lake, all of our little coves and much smaller. So I think initial advice was the number that we would need is probably not realistic. And so you might need more. And then that brings a consideration all by itself. Those of us who remember the solar bees. So more to come on that. But what I think is important for the community to know is that the board is committed to leaving no stone unturned when it comes to the potential interventions that can improve and protect our lake. We're looking ahead and thinking about the preparedness for what potentially could be a very wet winter. Significant rainfall and runoff can bring their own challenges. And yes, Darcy, I might be stealing some of your thunder. So any planning that we do now, even if it's wasted in terms of how much water we get, it will be energy well spent. And of course, what would a Canyon Lake meeting be without a conversation about e-bikes? We're very much looking forward to continuing working together with the city and our police department on effective intervention and enforcement with those that are violating the rules. And I think there is an important point that sometimes gets lost in this conversation. Enforcement isn't about taking e-bikes away from our kids or eliminating this form of microtransportation. In many ways, it's exactly the opposite. We'd like to intervene with the individuals who are riding dangerously or violating the rules so that their behavior doesn't ultimately jeopardize the ability of everybody else, kids and adults alike, to safely enjoy the fun and the freedom and the convenience that e-bikes and other forms of micro-mobility provide. That is an area where the partnership between the city, law enforcement, and the POA is particularly important, and we appreciate everybody's continuing willingness to work together. As somebody mentioned earlier, we are having the POA will be doing a 9-11 celebration at 630 at the lodge. And so we do welcome and hope that as many Kenyan Lakers can get down there and their friends and family at 630 on Friday night, tomorrow night. Thank you.

Any questions?

What's tomorrow?

Tomorrow's Thursday.

Oh, OK. Yes.

So, Lainey, I got two things. I got three things. You do speak the truth because it's 710 right now and it is exactly 94 degrees outside. So we have heat upon us. But I want to give a thank you to you. I wish more people would see the importance of our coffee at the country club. It has been so refreshing having you there. Obviously, this is something that our Mayor Pro Tem started five years ago, and we continue it to this day. And I want to say thank you. Those conversations are meaningful. I want to share this with the audience. Lainey brought to my attention, she goes, you know, sometimes we... direct all the negativity on our community because of the e-bikes. But there's stories like little Timmy, who's got the yellow tag on his bike, who's wearing a helmet, who's doing all the right things. And just because those around him are not, little Timmy's looked as someone who's violating the rules. And that is so the opposite of what we're trying to do. And that's why I want to say it's so important for the leadership at the POA, along with the city, and of course now our chief, because that's the thought process that we're having now. It's not to punish everyone just because they choose to drive an e-bike that's not it at all so i want to say thank you for that clarity and that's one of the conversations that we had at the country club so i appreciate it thank you any questions for our poa vice president mayor and i were talking uh earlier the the flyer describing um the responsibilities of the police and the responsibilities of the community patrol um

It's been a long time since I've seen a combo effort with the city and the POA. Very refreshing. I hope that continues. I hope we continue to get that information out to our residents. Great job.

Thank you. Appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you.

Yeah, let's give them a round of applause. So many good people working so hard. All right. With that, we're going to have Darcy Burke.

You are next and last, actually, on our presentations. Thank you for sticking it out with us tonight.

Thank you. Thank you, Mayor, Council, staff, residents, friends. I want to start with cemetery. So tomorrow is the deadline to submit your letter of concern. And I'm going to talk really briefly about what that letter needs to say. It doesn't need to say you don't like the cemetery because that's not what this is about. This is about protecting public health and protecting recreational use of the reservoir. And the key to that is it is a reservoir. And the plan that they have laid out to do their environmental scoping is deficient. I finished my letter this afternoon. It is 12 pages with attachments. And I CC'd the entire world that I could think of to CC, including Department of Toxic Substances illegal drug cleanup. because finding a meth lab and getting hold of copies of past subpoenas and other documentation from the county before it was the title was transferred to the new owner that was never cleaned up i think will help us a lot so um But that took a lot of time and a lot of research, but it was the right thing to do. So thank you for your kind words. But everybody's words matter, not just mine, because everybody's going to be impacted. And from my perspective, it looks like the county is just like polishing it and pushing it through. And this is our one chance. to make a difference. So if you just tell them how you feel. There's information on SaveOurLakes.net on how to do this. So even if you're not on social media, you don't have to be on social media. And if you're not on social media, you should be grateful right now. But please take the time to visit that website and write the letter. It's 5 o'clock tomorrow. It's an email. That's all you have to do. And just tell them how you feel. And tell them who you are, where you live, and why this matters. The other thing I wanted to tell you is we have narrowed down the contractor for the Canyon Lake Water Treatment Plant. I can't tell you who that is because we're in negotiations. And if those negotiations don't complete, then we're obviously going to go to number two. The number that staff gave us at our study session was less than I thought it was going to be. Now, that doesn't mean it's less, a lot less, but it's less than I thought it was going to be. So I think when I started on the board, it was like $40 million. Add a little $100 million to that or so, but at least it's not $200 million. Because a lot of that is repair and replacement. That goes on your bill. That's rates. That's not on developers. That's not on anything. That's on your state and your federal government saying, oh, this is the level we decide that's healthy or not, even though we do not have the ability to test that level. So when you look at your bill and you think, oh, I'm going to lower this. I'm going to make sure that we cut back on things. most of your water bill is regulatory compliance on things we have no control over and that brings me to number two and i only have three things really um apart from the cemetery everybody's watching the colorado river i want you to watch the state water project and the federal water project lots of things happening and my job as your water agency is to make sure you have water. So when you see that the Colorado River is being cut back and you see what's going on between the feds and the state, your question to me should be, what are you doing about it? And Elsinore Valley has a history of being very innovative, going outside of the box, and looking for new sources of water apart from metropolitan to make sure you have safe, reliable water all the time. And we're growing in this region. So we're not waiting for the bad to happen. We haven't been waiting. If you follow along Colorado River, it's not surprise. We knew what the expiration date was. So please know that we are working really hard as a board, collectively, collaboratively, to identify opportunities to make sure that we have safe, reliable water here. And to your point, Councilman Terry, about never forget, there's something I want to remember about that day. I lived in Canyon Lake on 9-11, and I walked out on my driveway, and there were flags in front of every house, and everybody was kind to each other. Nobody called anybody bad names or made fun of anybody. We were kind to each other and we were a community. That's what I want to remember. That's all I have.

I love it. Any questions for our director?

Yes. Thank you for your tireless efforts. Thank you for taking the time, even though social media is an absolute cesspool lately, for... continuously educating the community. I saw you had a chart the other day and the chart, I mean, obviously you can't kind of describe the chart orally, but there's been a lot of commentary about entities and stakeholders and whose responsibility the lake is in terms of cleanup and who's capable of doing that. And I was wondering if you could just kind of give a very brief synopsis. Yes. Because the misinformation is wild.

I think people like to think they know the answer because it seems like it's Obvious, and it so isn't. So in the reservoir, Elsinore Valley owns it 100%. We are responsible for water quality as it relates to drinking water. And you will have seen over the last 25, 30 years, we do treatment behind the buoys regularly, often, and frequently. We use copper sulfate. We have a permit. We've done it. Our pontoon has no problems. We've done it forever. That's our responsibility. There are five versions of the lease. My favorite one is the one that says, it's more the last one, and we'll just move on to this one, but I digress. It talks about the POA's responsibility as it relates to recreation, policing it, monitoring it, controlling who comes in and out, controlling pollution that goes in and out on their property or the property of the property owners within the POA, And then it talks about who is responsible for policing that effort. So that's why you have Marine Patrol as an example. Marine Patrol would make sure that people aren't throwing toxic chemicals in the lake. I get phone calls all the time about people pouring Roundup in the lake because they want to get rid of weeds. Now, I know they're not doing it in front of Marine Patrol because Marine Patrol would stop them. Right? But that would be an example. Then I hear all the time about LEJWA, Lake Elsinore San Jacinto Watershed Authority, which came out of a grant, a $13 million grant, and its intent is only to manage total maximum daily load nutrients. Its lane is this big. So to think that they're going to be able to fix everything is not accurate. They have almost no funding. To think that the cities upstream are going to want to give more reminds me of the MS4 permit we just talked about. I think Canyon Lake's bill was going to be $80 million.

Just under that.

If that goes through and forward, I don't think there will be a LEJWA because the Regional Water Quality Control Board will take over and that will be it. And I guarantee you their expansion will be more than TMDLs. So the challenge has been that there's a lot of players in the lake with a lot of interests, but they're very specific interests. why I was so excited about the plan that was presented, and although there's been a lot of criticism about those comments, was the bulk of the plan says, if this X type of algae is present, we agree that this Y type of treatment is what we're going to use. To get experts to decide that the right medicine for the right problem is what we're gonna do is huge, because everybody has an opinion just like a belly button. The other thing it decides is that we know we need real-time monitoring. I can take that plan now to the Bureau of Reclamation, to US EPA, to other agencies and say, we have a plan. We need monitoring. And the way funding is going now, it's in phases. So they might fund phase one, which would be the monitoring. They might fund phase two, which might be a pilot study of a different type of treatment or maybe the floating islands. Now, would they fund the POA? No, because you're a private corporation. Would they fund the city? No, because you have nothing to do with the lake except you are a quote unquote polluter and you get to pay. And because you're local, you sit on the leisure board. You have no authority over the lake. Sorry. you have no authority over Canyon Lake. But it doesn't make sense if you look at things like, well, of course you would. Well, of course you don't. So in the end, if there were to be a bigger regulatory authority coming down, They wouldn't really find the POA unless it was they found them polluting directly, like they saw somebody putting Roundup. Then that person would probably be fine, not the POA. We probably, as the Water District, would be fine because we didn't stop them. The city had nothing to do with it. So I think the best part, and when I heard Lainey talk about, you're stealing my thunder about rain, is never have I, in all this time, we all talk now. We all share information. When we got elected, A while ago, we couldn't do that. And the people asked us to work together. And we've done that. The lake is something we have to work together. What people don't understand, it's not an easy fix. The lake is going to be 100 years old. Listen to me. 100 years old in two years. How much money have we invested in keeping her healthy? I can tell you. Zero. Zero. So it's not going to be a cheap fix. I don't think it's going to be affordable on a rate. I don't think it's going to be affordable on a dues. I think we're going to have to think differently and we're going to have to work together to access outside money to make it affordable. And you do that, whether you like to know it or not, through relationships, through Congressman Calvert, through the Bureau of Reclamation right now, through EPA right now, You don't do that because you just want it to happen. Any other questions? Does that help?

Absolutely. I just want to say thank you. I know it's been tiring and there's been a lot of misinformation. And I know that you've been working overtime to try to educate as much as you possibly can. And I do know, because my phone rings too, Darcy, that it is definitely warranted, but more importantly, appreciated. So please keep up the fight and educating on what we can and can't do. And as you know, you have a body here who is fully supportive. And like you said, it's not, in my opinion, you know, a city issue, an EVMWD issue, a POA issue. It's a Canyon Lake issue. It's a Canyon Lake issue. And I think that's what it comes down to. And I'm excited because, you know, like Lainey and I were just talking about coffee at the Country Club. It's a strong time in Canyon Lake because we have stakeholders all working together for the right reason. Right. And a lot of that's because of the leadership that you're able to provide through your water experience and knowledge. So thank you.

Thank you. I want to add one thing. When we had the golden algae outbreak and we decided to do the copper treatment, for the first time, my board said they would help pay. And the years would have nothing to do with helping. That took a lot of effort to have them be collaborative and realize that they wanted to help. They weren't forced to help. They didn't have to do that. And I think it's given them reason to pause, because in order for us to go for those grants, I need their support. You can't do it by yourself. It has to be part of the bigger plan. And when we all work together, that just shows them that it's important to all of us. It's not just, oh, Darcy's got another crazy idea. It's no, this is something that's important to Canyon Lake and the city, the POA and the water district want to work together. And I think they would get behind it.

And, you know, Councilmember Walt, he's not here. He was here earlier for closed session. But Councilmember Terry and Mayor Pro Tem Castillo were here when we did the first ever joint meeting between the city, the POA, and EVMWD. And that was coming after a lawsuit. And I thought that was pretty incredible leadership on that front. So I just hope we can continue.

Yeah, me too. Thank you.

I appreciate you being here tonight.

Thank you.

Adam clerk. Do we have any public comments.

To her speaker is.

Thank you for joining us this evening. Best dressed in the audience. All the above.

Good evening, Mayor Jeremy Smith, Mayor Pro Tem Casey Scistillo, and members of the City Council. My name is Calais Vangata and I am here with fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to present a commemorative proclamation celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. As we celebrated this important milestone in our nation's history, we do so with gratitude for the freedoms we enjoy, especially the freedom of religion and the opportunity to serve our communities. We are grateful to live, work, worship, and raise our families in this wonderful community. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, a nation established upon principles of liberty, justice, representative government, and the God-given rights of all people. And, whereas Jesus Christ taught, ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free, reminding us that liberty flourishes when founded upon truth, virtue, and respect for the God-given rights of all people. On behalf of our church, it is an honor to present this proclamation to the city of Canyon Lake. Thank you for your service to our communities, and Thank you for allowing us to be here tonight.

I appreciate you. Great job. Absolutely incredible. Let's give him a round of applause. Well done. Well done. Will you run for office, please? This is so cool. Incredible job. Seriously. Excellent job. Oh, yeah, we'll put that up. It's an incredible job. Parents should be very proud. All right. Do we have any more public comments, Madam Clerk? All righty. Obviously, this is an online speaker. Do we have a name? We know that name. Good to go. Tim, can you hear us?

Yes, sir, I can.

Can you hear me?

Give us one second. Can you hear us, Tim? Yes, sir. Perfect. We got you loud and clear. The floor is yours. Your three minutes begins now.

Thank you. Well, good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Temp, City Council, and City staff. Uh, my name is Tim O'Mara. I can't be with you tonight. We just finished homework here up at my house, but I am the proponent of the measure E citizen initiative, um, that we will be seeing on our November 3rd election coming up. I want to inform everybody that we have a Facebook page up and running. It is yes on E support Canyon Lake public safety. Now everybody to know that up and down the state of California measure Z is a public safety initiative, so ensure that you're following the Canyon Lake public safety one. We will be supplying information. On that, and if anybody has any questions, they can put him in the comment section or privately direct message and we will try to get back within a day or two of any questions being asked. Our yard signs are going to be coming out in the next week or so, so if there's anybody that wants one to put one in a yard, please reach out to me and we'll get it out to your address. We are planning to schedule some town halls, so if anybody has any questions or if they bring their ideas, we would love to hear them and we can collaborate. If we follow the Facebook page, you will see. the times, dates, and locations when we get those figured out. And then a couple of the events coming up, Canyon Lake Car Show, Parade of Frights, Rocktoberfest, and Pumpkin Bash. You'll be seeing me walking around, and feel free to come up, and we'll answer questions when we can and work from there. So this wasn't quite a three-minute speech, but that's all I have for everybody tonight, and thank you so much.

Back to the homework, Tim. Thank you for joining us tonight.

Yes, sir. You guys have a great evening.

Thank you. Perfect. Madam Clerk, anything else? That's it. Perfect. Moving on to consent calendar. I do need, we have no public comments on the consent calendar, so I do need a motion and a second unless anyone has any additional comments or would like to pull any items.

Mayor, I'd just like to pull item one for question.

All right. I do need approval for the remaining balance.

Motion.

Second. Can I do, let's do roll call.

Mayor Patem-Castillo? Aye. Councilmember Stever? Aye. Councilmember Welty?

It's not here. Absent.

I'm sorry.

You're fine.

Mayor Smith?

Aye. All right, moving on to consent calendar item number one. This is approval of claims and demands.

Josh, you requested to pull it. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have two questions regarding item one under attachment two. I notice on page six of attachment two, or it's page 13 of the agenda packet, there are two line items I got questions on. Number one, line item, Kohlhuber Attorney Services Crescent Gardens Project March 2026 for $8,312.20. And number two, Kohlhuber Attorney Services Crescent Gardens Project April 2026 for $569.10. Now, I understand we voted on sending an opposition letter to the county, but I wouldn't think it would cost almost $9,000. That's a lot for a small budget on a project that really isn't even in our own jurisdiction. So my question one, city manager, if you can help me understand how we spent almost $9,000 in March and April on legal services for Crescent Gardens. And question number two, does this then put the city over budget with legal services?

So I will defer that question to the city attorney after I say that the city council did give direction to the city attorney to do the work that was done. So I'll let the city attorney handle that portion.

So thank you for the opportunity to answer your questions, council member. I want to be careful about discussing the exact work that was done because it's protected by attorney-client privilege. If you'd like to review copies of the invoices, you can request those from me at any time. Happy to provide them to you. They have detailed descriptions of all of the work that went into making the extensive review of the Crescent Garden Cemetery project, as well as the city's lengthy and detailed objections to the inadequate environmental work that was being proposed by the project applicant. I do believe that the city's letter was in large part responsible for the county's decision to engage in further environmental review of that particular project. And I would note that environmental review is specifically excluded from the retainer agreement that the city has with the city or the firm has the city of Canyon Lake. But anytime you have a question about the legal invoices, we send the full invoices to the city. You're free to review them. They are confidential and privileged documents, so you can't share them publicly. The Finance and Review and the Finance and Planning Committee used to go through them line by line, ask the same kind of questions that you do. So if you ever want to just talk about it, I'm happy to do it. But I would say that environmental review is a highly specialized area of law. We had to use our CEQA practitioners to prepare those letters.

Are you able to answer on question two?

Please let me know what question two was.

Just was curious, does this put us over budget now with legal services for the Crescent Gardens projects, or was that already kind of budgeted in?

So I can't answer your budget question. That's definitely a city manager question. What I can tell you is that for legal services generally on an annual basis, they usually account for the retainer. that we have, and then they include additional items related to litigation, planning, land use, environmental, code enforcement, labor, and employment. So the type of work that we were asked to engage in here. Appreciate the feedback. Thank you.

I can answer that question when it's time for the budget part.

I have one more thing to add on this. If we do have a conversation about the legal invoices for the city, the other thing that I would ask you to review is how much the fixed fee retainer is and how many hours the city actually gets under that fixed fee retainer. I think you'll find that the retainer amount it doesn't change based on how many hours our firm provides to the city and it was anticipated that we would use approximately 37 hours per month over the first six months of this year primarily in response to a high level of public records act requests and the initiation of the police department we were typically billing in excess of double that so in those cases we're essentially providing 40 hours to 50 hours of attorney work for free to the city of canyon lake I'm not a charity, but I did want to just point out that our billing practices on the whole dramatically saved the city money over the entire term of our engagement. And I'd be happy to go over those with you too.

I have a comment on that. Do you mind? Oh, please. Um, Maybe I'm biased, just based on my practice, but I saw that build too, and I thought that we got a deal for what we got. The community has been so outspoken against the cemetery and the environmental impacts that spending $9,000 to have our position put forth and documented and part of the record, I was grateful for that. So I know maybe it's different because I see legal bills all the time, but I imagine that the particular attorneys who were specialized such that they took on this project, their rates are not low. And so you kind of get what you pay for, and I think we got a deal.

I would say to the question as to the rates on that particular matter, the firm's established rates for the work that those particular attorneys do typically exceeds $400 to $450 an hour. However, for the city of Canyon Lake, it's approximately half that because we charge the general rate that the city has asked for under the agreements.

I would echo exactly what the mayor pro tem just said. In fact, I'm beyond shocked the item's even pulled just because of that very document is what exactly the item to be continued. And just the validity of it alone, reading the 293 pages that your firm put together, not only because this council asked you to do so, but in a timely matter at which you did because we were up against the gun to get that thing out, I believe it was a week before the actual hearing. And I'm shocked that we're having this conversation tonight because if you're connected to what is going on in Canyon Lake right now, this is the number one issue in regards to what could come. So I want to give a shout out to what I believe was this council as a full and full support of what our city attorney was able to put on his docket seven days before a planning commission meeting. which was a 293-page document that made the clerk give the announcement to the board that we need to continue the item because of that one document. So I am very excited to move this claims and demands forward, and I'll make the motion if I have a second. Can I get a roll call vote, please?

Tempestio?

Aye.

Siebert?

Aye.

Assemblymember Terry? Aye.

Aye. Thank you, Madam Chair. Appreciate everyone's feedback, though. Thank you. Business item... Moving right along. Do we have any public comments on our one business item, Madam Clerk?

Do not.

Thank you. Who's this one going to? Server Senior Analyst, Hernandez. Let's see it.

Kayla.

Kayla, we don't get to hear from you very often. So we're not going to make you nervous or anything, but... All right, the item's yours. Let's hear it. Your microphone's off to start. But that's budget stuff. That's not your fault.

Good evening, Mayor and Councilmembers. This item is to approve an amendment to the city's existing CalPERS contract. The city has participated in CalPERS since 1992, and CalPERS is requesting that we update the contract language to reflect current PEPRA and statutory requirements. The amendment does not establish a new retirement system or change the city's participation in CalPERS. It primarily updates the contract to clarify the provisions applicable to our Classic and PEPRA employees. There is no fiscal impact resulting from this amendment. The city will continue to pay its required CalPERS employer contributions, which are included in our current adopted budget.

That's all I have. Easy peasy. Any questions for my colleagues? Seeing that we have no public comments on the item, I do need a motion to move it.

One more comment. This, to clarify for our community, does not incorporate public safety.

Correct. It's stated in our current contract that public safety does not apply to CalPERS.

Very unique, us Canyon Lakers. Mr. City Manager, you got anything on it? We're good.

We're good to go. It is a requirement to bring it to council for your approval. So we look forward to and recommend approval.

Love it. I have a motion on the floor, I believe. Second. All right.

And just to clarify, it's to adopt the resolution, approve the amendment to the contract, and introduce the first reason of order.

That's why we let you say it. Couldn't have said it any better. Roll call vote, please.

Mayor Pro Tem Castillo? Aye. Council Member Stever? Aye. Council Member Terry?

Aye. City Manager, got any comments for us?

Unfortunately for you, I have many, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council. Thank you so much for this opportunity to bump my gums for a while, but I will be delegating some of this. I'll start with Maddie Gonzalez, who will give us an update both on the amazing pumpkin bash and on our local hazard mitigation plan that you can go online and contribute to. So I'll start with Maddie.

Sorry, Maddie.

No worries. Thank you, everyone. Yes, we have our local hazard mitigation plan survey on our website. We're just looking for feedback from residents on what they think priorities are as far as our safety concerns here in the lake. And we do have a deadline, I believe December 1st, to get back on those surveys. So that is canbefound.canyonlakeca.gov forward slash LHMP. Okay. And then we have Pumpkin Bash coming up. So we have that scheduled for Thursday, October 29th, 4 to 9 p.m. here in the Canyon Lake Town Center. We are inviting all of our local businesses to participate for a free booth spot. They're welcome to join us. Just a deadline of September 24th. And we're excited for another year.

And if Maddie's not busy enough, what else do we have going on in October that she's putting together?

We've got a few things. We have this little state of the city thing. It's a pretty big deal. Can you talk about that for a minute, Maddie?

Yes. Yeah, I'll start in order. So we have our Battle of the Cities golf tournament on October 2nd. That is a Friday. So we already have a lot of our neighboring cities joining. And even up in the Orange County area, we have Corona coming in. So we're really excited for that. And again, as a reminder, anyone that participates or sponsors, all the proceeds go to charity, the charity of choice of the winning team. And a few weeks later or a week or two later, we have State of the City. So that'll be highlighting our mayor. And we're going to have some fun. We're going to go back in time. We're going to our theme is built on a dream. So reflecting in a little salute to the 250th of America. And yeah. It should be fun.

Speaking of the state of the city, Mayor, because that is an agendized meeting, staff has requested that we cancel the October meeting. And then any items that we have that are of urgent need, we will present on that meeting. In the past, if there's a closed session that's needed, we would have closed session over here. We would do an open session over here, public comment over here, and then take a recess over to the state of the city. So that would be the plan once again. Okay. And then I'd like to, if I could, start just delegating some of my time for the city manager comment to check in with both chiefs. For those that may not be aware, we have our own fire and police department in the city. And so there's a lot going on. But before we do that, I will say. I said it in my city manager's newsletter. I had very high expectations for our police department just based on the chief and who I know he is. And I can tell you personally, my expectations have absolutely been exceeded. The comments I've had just over and over again. the engagement, the just true sense of community that's been seen already paying dividends. And you've heard numerous times of cases that have been resolved quickly, of response times that have been seen. It's everything that I believe that the city council wanted in our department. And I think that has a lot to do with Chief Rails and who he has brought on. He's been very intentional with the individuals from every rank of this department. And I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I think it also goes a lot to Chief Latendris in setting that model of this is what Canyon Lake community looks like. This is what we do as a department. And so for me, I'm very, very thankful for both of these chiefs and what they do. Like makeup, it's not easy to make me look good, but those chiefs do it each and every day. So I'm very thankful for them. And I'd like to give each of them time to update on us on anything they may have.

I will start it out then. I will be short. tomorrow marks 30 30 days from the start went by quick the past years has not gone by fast because we were stressed out trying to put everything together making sure everything came together perfect and honestly I'd like to thank every employee in the city for helping out it wasn't just me Maddie has been, I think, about 90% PD in the last probably month dealing with all the IT stuff that we have going on and is still going on. Kayla, with all the hiring, she's probably pulling her hair out.

She's about done seeing me probably. I don't recommend that.

Every city employee has been awesome and very helpful. I could not have done it by myself, honestly. It's been 30 days. We started out slow. We'll be out there in the community more. We're going to have more officers out there. We have a lot more community engagement we're going to be doing, volunteer program, explorer program, a lot coming. If you're excited now, you're going to be really excited in about six months or so. It's just going to take a little time to to really get up and moving, but things have been great. The residents have been awesome. A lot of great feedback coming in and just wanting to talk. So it's been, it's been a very positive experience so far.

Great.

So thank you.

Thank you. Our other chief.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council, City staff. From the fire department, as we've already talked about, Friday is a big day for us. So we hope everyone can be there and partake with us. It's an emotional day. Council Member Terry and I will probably be hugging each other a lot, but it's a rough day. There were a lot of people that died needlessly, and a lot of them were heroes. Just about every single one of them was heroes. So we'll talk about that more in detail. September is also National Preparedness Month. If you had an opportunity to see that in the city manager's newsletter, now is the time, as Maddie talked about, our local hazard mitigation plan and looking at what hazards we have in Canyon Lake. And we think of, well, fire, earthquake, but we need to think about weather. We need to think about storms. We need to think about a terrorist event as we pay tribute or recognize 9-11. That could be something. Another COVID type situation could be something that we're looking for as a hazard that we can start planning for mitigation for. So we look for the public and their input on our local hazard mitigation plan. Our CERT team will be at the Lowe's parking lot in Lake Elsinore on September 19th. And so if you go out there as part of a national preparedness month, there'll be a preparedness safety fair. So you can find a lot of good items for your home that can help you prepare at least three days for any type of disaster. We won't be seeing you until October, but October, the first full week, we have fire prevention week. So the fire department will be out in our school at the preschool, at the church, and we'll make several visits to the library and provide education to our children on how to be fire safe out there. We want to clarify for Council Member Stieber, you talked about the pump pod training. Unfortunately, we're notified this week that the delivery of our training device is being delayed. We don't expect it now until about the 25th of this month. and to have that available for a ribbon cutting event on the 28th. We just were notified this week that we are working now with the water district and the city to find a new date for that to occur. So I did want to clarify that. So a lot going on. Your firefighters are out there in the community. We're working on our insurance service office rating and our firefighters will be going to Corona and to Camp Pendleton. for fire ground training at a training ground to ensure that we get that checked off too. And that's going to be in October and November. We got notified today, kind of an early shout out. March 26th, 27th, and 28th, I believe the dates are, your firefighter from Canyon Lake will be assisting March Air Force Base at their biannual air show at the air base. So that will be coming up as well. So that concludes my report. I'm available for any questions you may have. Thank you.

Anything else, Mr. City Attorney? I'm sorry, Mr. City Manager and Mr. City Attorney? Nothing for me.

Nothing for me, Mayor.

So under announcements, I do want to make a couple announcements that I can't believe I forgot, and I know that Council Member Welty will kill me if I don't say it.

We have our September 19th CR&R Community Cleanup Day.

That is like his favorite day, two of them, of the year. I mean, his truck's already loaded. So I just want to let the residents know and remind them that September 19th is the chance where you get to throw away your trash. And it's important because we need to do that and we need to go through it and not in the lake. And then also, I know there's a lot going on. at the POA, so we can't possibly keep up with everything. But there's Harbor Fest that day, too. So that's happening by the Guild, too. So there's just a lot of great things happening once again in Canyon Lake. But I do want to adjourn the meeting with the announcement that our next meeting is going to be October 15th, which is our State of the City, as opposed to October 14th. Thank you for the clarification on that. And Mayor Pro Tem Castillo is going to adjourn our meeting tonight. Can you please do it for us? Do it. You do it. You do it. You're adjourning the meeting.

We lost, sadly, a Canyon Lake matriarch in Ms. Zing. Yes. I think she was 94. 94.

94.

And very saddened by that news because she was an amazing person.

institution here in kenya absolutely so i think we i think we adjourn in honor of her and her family and the life that she's given to the community without a doubt so i'm going to do that at 7 54 thank you everyone for attending tonight thank you