Public Safety Commission - Regular Meeting

OK, everybody, it's 6 o'clock. We're going to call this meeting to order. Clerk, please call the roll.

Commissioner Hernandez? Here. Commissioner Mendez is absent. Commissioner Wade is absent. Vice Chair Cruz?

Here.

Chair Blair?

Here. Tonight, the Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Commissioner Hernandez.

Ready, 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.

We kind of revised this, huh? Okay. The Commission may only add an item to the agenda after making a finding that there is a need to take immediate action on the item and that the item can or came to the attention of the agency subsequent to the posting of the agenda. An action adding an item to the agenda requires a majority vote of the Commission. Clerk, if any Eastvale staff members requested an item?

We have no requests.

Commissioners, would you like to add any items?

Not at this time.

No, thank you. We'd like to solicit the vote.

No boat is required.

Perfect. Okay. Moving on to item five. The first item is 5.1, a monthly police department update presented by Lieutenant Ball of Riverside Sheriff's Office.

Good evening, Commission. So if I can turn your attention to the crime and data statistics for the city of Eastville, we can look at the July report. That'll sum up both July and June. Just to turn your attention to a few of the numbers. So aggravated assaults, we did have an uptick in July with 15 compared to June in eight. And it's slightly above our previous year's numbers. We also had an increase in commercial thefts. In the month of June, we had 10, and then it increased significantly to 52 in the month of July. If we go down to total violent crimes, we had a decrease from June with four to two in July. So we did go down by a couple for the aggravated, I'm sorry, the robberies. And then aggravated assaults, we were at 15 for the month of July, whereas we had eight in the month of June. So a little bit of an uptick on the aggravated assaults. If we go down to the calls for service box in mail theft, our mail theft has continued to decrease. We had one reported call in July, one reported call in June, which is a substantial decrease from the same months the previous year. And then for felony arrests, we had 15 felony arrests in the month of July and we had 11 in the month of June. Misdemeanor arrests, we had 25 in the month of July and 39 in the month of June. And it was all adults that were arrested for both months, no juveniles arrested. 40 arrests in July and 50 in June. And then if I can turn your attention to the monthly report, we can look at the June 2026 report first, if you can. Collisions, we had 38 accidents with no injuries, seven accidents with injuries, and zero traffic fatalities. Total of seven hit and runs with no injuries, one with an injury, and we had nine DUI arrests or citations, and then 25 sites for excessive speed or street racing. In the month of June, on June 30th, several arrests were made during the Picnic in the Park event. Those arrests included a battery, a drunken public, and obstructing or resisting a peace officer. And then on June 23rd and 25th, the Eastvale Special Enforcement Team, along with the Eastvale Traffic Team, conducted an e-bike operation that resulted in six e-motos being towed and stored, six citations for driving without a driver's license, one citation for tampering or modifying an electric bicycle, and one citation which was issued to a parent for knowingly permitting a child under 18 years old to drive a motor vehicle upon a highway. And those were the significant incidents in the month of June. If I can turn your attention to the July monthly report. We had 42 accidents with no injuries. We had four accidents with injuries, and again, zero traffic collisions with fatalities. We had nine hit and runs with no injuries. We had zero with injuries. We had a total of seven DUI arrests. And we had 35 citations for excessive speed or street racing. And then as far as operations, on July 1st, the traffic team conducted an operation throughout the city of Eastville, which resulted in 19 citations for sign and signal violations and eight speed citations. And then July 10th, the traffic team conducted a DUI enforcement operation, which resulted in one DUI arrest and 11 citations for various other traffic incidents. And then last but not least, the traffic collision map, the hotspot map. Both months are tracking relatively the same. So from April to June, there were a total of 77 traffic collisions. The day that we have the most traffic collisions during that timeframe was on Monday, and the most traffic collisions occurred between 8 in the morning and noon, followed up by noon to 4 p.m. And then for May 1st to July 31st, we had a total of 73 traffic collisions, again with Monday being our busiest day for the traffic collisions. And the predominant hours for the traffic collisions for that time frame was from noon to 4 p.m., followed up by from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. And all that is reflective in the hotspot maps. And I'm available for any questions.

Thanks LT for that report. Just a quick question in regards to the e-bike. When you do site, do you stat those under traffic moving?

Yes. So as of right now, the city council just passed the e-bike ordinance. So that hasn't gone live yet. It should be going live. in roughly two, two and a half weeks. And so for right now, it's all vehicle code violations. We're either citing for being an unlicensed driver, 12500 of the vehicle code, or 4000A1 being an unregistered vehicle. And then once the ordinance goes live, we will actually be citing for both. So we'll be issuing administrative sites for the ordinance, and then we'll also be issuing vehicle code violation sites. Awesome. Thank you. You're welcome.

Let me just piggyback off of that question also. You mentioned unlicensed drivers with the e-bikes. Are they required to be insured drivers as well?

Yes, so they do have to be motorists. They have to be insured motorists, but obviously the bikes that we're targeting are the e-motorcycles or the e-motos, which it's illegal to be operating on those on the roadway anyway. But yes, in theory, they all have to be insured motorists, but they don't even possess, in most cases, the driver's licenses.

Thank you.

I got one and it's probably going to be an opinion from you. However, we saw almost a five time uptick in a commercial theft from June to July. Any kind of ideas or what made that happen?

I don't have any ideas in what made that happen. Our special enforcement team has been increasing our operations as far as the organized retail theft because we were obviously seeing that uptick in the numbers. And so we recently did another organized retail theft operation, which I'll be speaking about at our next meeting because it's not covered in this time frame. So we did notice that there was that uptick. We're obviously trying to get the information out to to business owners to contact us increase their security increase their surveillance camera footage And and their abilities and that way ultimately if these thefts do occur Once the reports are written we can we can get that information to our investigators Two of whom are in the back of the room and that way then we can affect the arrests or if our special enforcement team is made aware And we can work that up without it going to investigators Then we can affect those arrests

Yeah, I know that the holiday season is right around the corner and seeing numbers kind of like that is looking worrisome.

And the benefit is obviously in some of those cases we will have the extra duty. So we'll have deputies who are on scene patrolling the parking lots during those holiday hours. We have quite a few of the businesses who support that. And so generally our numbers stay a little bit lower because there is that increased law enforcement presence. And so typically when people see law enforcement is in the area or in the parking lot, they're less apt to commit those crimes.

All right, the next item is item 5.2, the monthly fire update presented by Cal Chief Voigt of Cal Fire.

Good evening, Chair and Commissioners. Try to do some little updates for your stats here. So we're going to go over July stats. So in July, we had 361 incidents citywide, notably 277 medical aides. We had one commercial fire. Of the traffic collisions my partner over here talked about, we responded to 26 of those, a couple of vehicle fires and a wildland fire. A breakdown of your responses by the equipment, engine 27 ran 210 calls, the squad was at 213. We do have a water tender that's county funded that went out on seven responses and our engine 31 out of Chandler went to 161 calls. A couple of significant events that's going to tie in with our presentation here momentarily. We had two drownings that occurred within the city within a few days of each other. On the 5th, our medics responded to a community pool for reported drowning of a seven-year-old girl who was found submerged by a nearby swimmer. The estimated submersion time was more than Two minutes by standards began immediate CPR prior to the arrival of our emergency personnel. Our paramedics assumed patient care and continued advanced resuscitation efforts and the patient regained spontaneous respirations and a pulse but did remain in critical condition. and was transported by air to the local pediatric trauma center for further care. And then on the 11th, our medics responded to reporting drowning involving a one and a half year old child and upon arrival, our medics began CPR and ALS procedures. in an effort to resuscitate that patient. So the child was transported in critical condition, accompanied by our firefighters, and despite the extensive lifesaving efforts, unfortunately, the child did not make it. I want to highlight our office of the fire marshals that we're doing here as well. That's part of your contract, our fire marshals office. The stats there showcase their efforts on moving Eastville forward with the plan checks and the reviews and everything that they're doing inside of their office. And that's all I have for you. I'm available for questions.

OK. Thank you, Chief. Moving on to item 5.4, the NIC Fraud and Identity Theft Prevention presentation presented by Riverside County Sheriff's Office. All right.

I don't think they have their names, so I don't know. We're going to go to 5.3, monthly code enforcement department updates. Thank you.

No worries. Thank you, Commission. I'd like to provide the monthly co-statistic reports for the months of June and July, beginning with June. We have a total of 390 new cases. 45 citations issued, 363 closed cases, a total of 1,069 total inspections, and 323 current cases. I'd like to note that our volunteers have donated 43 hours to the department, totaling a number of 604 parking citations. Top 10 case topics for the month include property maintenance landscape, 72-hour parking violations, RV parking violations, abandoned inoperable vehicles, unpermitted and abandoned signage, garbage and junk in view, street sweeping enforcement, visibly trash containers, temporary holiday display, and street vendor enforcement. And that concludes the month of June. I'd like to start with July now. We have a total of 270 new cases, 57 citations issued, 329 closed cases, a total of 939 total inspections, 298 current cases. Our volunteers have also donated 122 hours for the month. Total number of parking citations is 250. Top 10 case topics include property maintenance landscape, 72-hour parking violations, junk and garbage in view, trash containers not screened, short-term rental enforcement, building code violations, street sweeping enforcement, trash containers left at the street, abandoned inoperable vehicles, and RV parking violations. And that concludes my report, and I'm open for questioning.

I have a question in regards to the landscaping. I know a lot of times people kind of fall short of seeing themselves maintain it when it's as hot as it is. Is there any grace periods for people just trying to keep up but can't with the current heat that we're enduring?

Yes, there is. There always is with the code enforcement team. We do consider the temperatures and the extreme heat and just the cost of trying to renovate your landscape. It's difficult right now with the heat. We always try to result to more cost-effective options like mulch, decorative rock, artificial turf if the property owners are interested in that. But there is definitely 30-day, 60-day grace periods depending on the circumstances.

Thank you.

Okay, so now we are to Fraud and Identity Theft Prevention, presented by Riverside County Sheriff's.

Good evening, my name is Investigator Rick Rodriguez, and this is my partner, Raul De La Torre, and we'll be presenting this as quickly as we can. Okay, so... The brief overview, Department of Justice defines identity theft and frauds as all types of crimes in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses a person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception or typically for economic gains. Many operate internationally, makes apprehension and investigations difficult. Many use leading questions or use words to gain trust. Some use scare tactics such as you will be arrested. Most use mass IP addresses or use fake phone numbers. Your most impacted age groups are young adults 20 to 29, high volume of reports targeted via social media and digital marketplaces. Prime working age, 30 to 39, accounts for the largest raw share of Federal Trade Commission's identity complaints. And seniors 80s plus, lowest reported frequencies, but faces the highest median loss per incident. As you can see there, there are the statistics for 2026. It breaks it down by age. In 2025, there were 3 million reported identity frauds nationwide. Out of those, 23% reported a monetary loss. Those 23% contributed a total net loss of $15.9 billion. That's an increase of $3.4 billion from 2024. And then we'll get into the types of frauds and identity theft. One of the oldest and Pervasive one is the IRS scam where they claim to be IRS agents and they try to get people to to call in. They usually will call email or something like that. As we all know, the IRS does everything by mail. They're not going to call you or anything like that. But that's how they usually get these people is by scamming them through some other alternative other than the mail. Lottery sweet safe scam. They call them and they say, hey, you won the lotto, but we need a down payment or we need partial payment so we can get you this lottery money or taxes or something like that. And people will fork over the money thinking that they won all this other money, but it ends up being a scam. The family member arrest scam is where a family member will get called and say, hey, we have Your nephew, Johnny, we have him. If you don't pay us $5,000 right now, we're going to harm him. And don't get off the phone. And usually they'll keep him on the line, have him go to a bank, make a withdrawal or something. They try not to let them get off the phone. And then once they get their money wired to them or some green dot card or something like that, then they let him off the hook. But then the family member will find out that it was all false. This one seems to be a big one where a lot of people are getting scammed out right now. The romance pig butchering scam can come in different ways, but a lot of it starts on social media where somebody will be contacted, usually it's a male by a female, and they start this flirting thing and they start their little relationship and they build a little trust with that person and then They'll eventually ask them to go to another app, such as WhatsApp or Telegram. And once they go to that app, then they start telling them about some kind of investment that they're in and how they can benefit. And unfortunately, a lot of these people will fall into that trap because a lot of times they'll do an initial smaller amount, say $5,000, and they do make money. And so then... As humanity goes, we get greedy. And so then that's when they send the bigger portion. And then at that point, the scammer will continue to ask for more and more money. And then when that person finally realizes something's up, I want to take my money out, it's gone. It's too late. But that happens. I don't know if you've ever been aware. If you ever get a text, hey, this is so-and-so. And you're like, who's this? And then that's how they could do it as well. The home improvement scam. Is the contractor or maybe a contract, not be a contractor, they come in, sell you what they're going to do, ask for a down payment. It turns out they're not even a contractor. Now your money's gone. Charity scam, it can be like a GoFundMe. Something unfortunate happens to someone and there's people out there that'll take advantage of it and set up their own GoFundMe or something of that nature. And then you're donating to who you would think is a justifiable cause, but it's just a scammer. Can you hear me now, scam? This is kind of a newer one where they'll try to get you to say certain words like yes, no, your name. And what they do is they use that recording later on to maybe call your bank or your insurance or something and they'll turn on your voice when they ask you to say something and they use that. So you've got to be careful when you're talking to these people. If you think it's a scam, just hang up on them. The secret mystery shopper scam. This is where they lure you into thinking you're going to be a guy that goes out there and does a secret shopper, but they always want something in advance for you to do it. Usually they'll ask for some kind of payment for your for you to get involved, and then they promise you to get paid on the back end, and it never happens. Business malware, ransomware. I had one of these one time in Moreno Valley. It was at the water district. What happened was the person that was doing the scam sent the email to the purchasing agent, From a known source, but they just changed like one or two letters in the email. So that person automatically fulfilled the order, sent it out. And then once they started looking at it, they noticed that it was just off by a letter. Like our department does the same thing with us. They test us all the time. Our IT department does the phishing scam with us. They'll send us an email like from our captain or something. And you look at it and everything looks legit. But instead of saying Riverside County, it's always Riverside Country. And so if you don't look at it and you open it, you've been caught. So people will just change one or two little things and make it look legit, and then you get caught up. The old computer repair scam, you get the pop-up, and then they want you to send money to repair your computer. The phishing scam... This one is like they'll make like a website that looks legitimate. It'll be like Amazon return policy website, and everything looks legit. You click on their link, and it turns out they'll send you to a page that looks like the actual business. But again, if you look at everything, start looking at the emails, it's probably going to be coming from some Gmail or some Yahoo or some place other than the actual website. business, so you just got to look out for those. ATM skimmers, I think we're all aware of those at the gas stations and places where they will put something similar on top of the keypad, and you're swiping your card, and it turns out they're actually taking your passcode when you punch it in. That's still going on. Again, with small businesses, the fake invoices, like I explained with the water company in Office supplies, again, they'll send something, say, hey, you purchased this, and they pay it, and it turns out they never did purchase it because they don't look into it. Utility scams, fake checks, kind of the same thing with the social engineering, the ransomware. There was a San Bernardino Sheriff's, they got hit with that ransomware a few years back where they wiped out their whole data system out there for money, and it costs them millions of dollars to get it all up and running again. Embezzlement, that's always a big one. It's always somebody that could be your bookkeeper that you trust, and you always say that person would never do it. Turns out they're the ones that do it. Any business person will tell you most of their theft comes from employees.

Usually that's where that comes from.

And how to avoid identity theft? You know, spot the imposters. They always pretend to be someone else, like your family member, charity. Don't send them anything. Online searches. There's all kinds of ways you can search things. Unfortunately, I got scammed about a couple years ago. I like to lift weights, so there was a set of barbells on TikTok, and I was like, oh, this is a great deal. Bought them, and as soon as I bought them, I said, what did I do? It's too cheap. I looked up the URL, and you can look up the domain name, and it'll tell you when it was established. So I looked it up, and it had been established like a week prior, something like that. It got scanned, so I called my credit card number. We got it back, but that's how they do it. They go on your emotions. You get excited about the product, and you're like, wow, this is a really good deal, and they get you. So that's why I say you do your online searches. They're all out there. There's a lot of domains that you can find that will search the URLs of these companies, and they'll tell you how long they've been in business.

Don't believe your caller ID. That can be spoofed.

If the fraudster is asking for something, if they're promising to give you something, but they're asking for something up front, 10 out of 10 times, it's not going to be legit. Consider how you pay. I always pay with my credit card where I know I'm protected. So use your credit cards that you know that you can call and cancel and get refunded. Money grams, Western Unions, those are always going to be a scam. And the modern day nuisance, these robocalls, just hang up on them. I think most of your modern phones, they have a spam protector now where you can just turn that on. And be skeptical about these free trials. Never, if somebody calls you and say, hey, I want to give you this just with this amount of money, In your bank account, withdraw it, give it to me. It's going to be a scam. There's nothing for free. They're always going to get something. Next one is just a couple places you can register not to try to lessen your spam calls. And the last one is where you can report some of these cyber scams. For your local agencies, it's very difficult to investigate because across state lines, across the international lines, we don't have that capability to follow the money beyond usually state lines. So usually that's when the FBI gets involved in that IC3. But like if you're aware of you've ever zelled anything, it tells you, are you sure? Do you know this person before you hit that button? If you send that money, It's pretty much gone. It's going to be very difficult to get that money back. I think that should be it.

Questions? Yeah, one question. Thanks for the presentation. Tapping your ATM card or your phone to an ATM, or not an ATM machine, but say at the supermarket or something, is that pretty much safe rather than swiping your card? Is that the more?

Yeah, because when you swipe it, then even now that some of them will still ask you to put your passcode. I think anything that asks you to put your passcode, you're going to be invulnerable.

Got it.

Because they just read the number and then whatever you put in there. I see.

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Yeah. One thing I've seen is AI has really made these websites and stuff like that look fantastic. And luckily, I've got a young teenage daughter, and she knows exactly where to go to look for all that stuff. So AI is a big one. And another thing, and it's more or less kind of off what you had. pig breaching? Where did you guys come up with that name?

I don't know who gave it that name but that's what it's called. Unfortunately people there is someone in this city that got I think it's 600,000 was a victim and it started like hi this is so and so on Facebook and it just went from there.

I'll just jump in with the pig butchering that comes with farming it refers to the There you go.

Good evening. Let me introduce myself. My name is Fire Captain Eric Castellanos. I'm a fire captain paramedic at Chandler Station 31 here in the city. I've served the city for over 14 years in all ranks of my career. I also have a long background in water rescue, lifeguarding, and also as a water safety instructor. Drowning is fast, silent, and preventable. In the next 10 minutes, I'll walk you through a five-layer protection any family or association can use. The last study in Riverside County was done in 2018 and 2022, five years of fatal and non-fatal drowning, residents and non-residents. In that time, there was over 866 drownings, on average about 173 every year. 220 drowning deaths, that averaged 44% every year. 64.8 cents of non-fatal drownings were children ages 0 to 4. And it was at a ratio of 4 to 1 of non-fatal drownings to fatal drownings. Why, how does this matter here in Eastville? Well, in Riverside County has one of the highest drowning rates in California. We're actually number one for the cause of death of children one to four. We are 4.6 times our county's death rate higher than the state average. 84% of our local drownings are kids under five. Most of the drownings, 41% happened in June, July. But since this last stat, which goes to 2022, POOL SEASON HAS BEEN GETTING HOTTER AND LASTING LONGER. CURRENTLY, FOR THIS YEAR, WE ARE UP TO 86 DROWNING-RELATED INCIDENTS IN THIS AREA BY THE AGENCY THAT THE AREAS THAT WE COVER. HERE IN THE CITY, WE HAVE ABOUT 10 POOLS THAT FALL UNDER THE STATUTE AS PUBLIC POOLS. THIS ENTAILS MOSTLY HOA COMMUNITY POOLS, APARTMENT POOLS, AND ONE HIGH SCHOOL POOLS. AND, YES, I HAVE RESPONDED TO EACH OF THESE SETTINGS BEFORE IN THIS CITY. THIS DOESN'T INCLUDE THE HUNDREDS OF BACKYARD PRIVATE POOLS IN THE CITY. Let me stress to you, there is no splashing or shouting. A child can go underwater in less than a minute. I just recently was called out to respond to a seven-year-old drowning in a nearby HOA pool. Our notes say that the child was underwater for about two minutes and that CPR was in progress. Upon my arrival, we discovered what really happened was it took about two minutes to get her out of the water when a bystander noticed the child was submerged. And the time it took him to run across, get in the water, swim across to him, jump out of the pool, pull her out, and begin CPR was about two minutes alone. So it's estimated that the child was underwater for a significantly longer time. The mother child was holding a small infant, did not know how to swim, and was unaware the incident even happened until a crowd noticed a gentleman doing CPR on a seven-year-old girl. Luckily enough, we had a rapid response. and took over upon arrival. We were able to get her breathing again and rapidly transported to the pediatric trauma center by helicopter for neurological intervention. I'm happy to say that she will make a full recovery due to the rapid actions of bystanders and our emergency responders, which are here today. No one is immune to these tragedies. I personally know members of my own agency who have lost their own children to backyard drownings. I have seen coworkers' responses to drownings that have permanently imprinted their minds to the point where they can no longer do this job. Almost every death is preventable with layered protection. Let's talk about those layers. First, fence the pool on all four sides. This is the most effective that anyone can do. It separates the pool from the house, not just the street. It needs to be at least five feet tall, no gaps that childs could squeeze through. This is the number one cause right here. They need to be self-closing with self-latching gate that swings away from the pool at least five feet tall. Climbable hazards defeat the purpose of these fences. Nearby chairs, planners, coolers, toys are all used for kids to get through or around or over the fence. I ask everybody, test your gate today in your home or your association. If it doesn't latch on its own, it isn't working. Ensuring this can reduce the risk of drownings by 83%. I'm quite sure... A LOT OF HOAs ARE NOT DOING THE REGULAR MAINTENANCE OR INSPECTIONS ON THEIR GATES. NUMBER TWO, LET'S WATCH CLOSELY. THE NEXT TWO LAYERS DEPEND ON THE ADULTS. THEY NEED TO NAME A WATER WATCHER. NAME ONE ADULT WITH NO PHONE, NO BOOK, NO DRINKS, KEEPING THEIR EYES ON THE WATER. THEY COULD TRADE OFF EVERY 15 MINUTES. Under five-year-old, keep them within your arm's reach. This goes for all bodies of water.

Third, teach them to swim.

Swimming lessons cut the risk for ages one to four. It can start as early as six months. Usually at that time, they're first taught the survival float technique. There are local programs locally. The First Five California program known as SPLASH, Corona Norco YMCA offers lessons, and the Harupa Area Parks and Recreation Districts all teach the float, flip, and swim programs. For the adults, you can't rescue if you can't swim. We also need to ensure these adults can swim and or navigate the bodies of water. It is very common that a lot of parents supervising some children, they're not adequate swimmers themselves. Backups. These layers are if the first three fail. They're physical backups. We have door window alarms. These alarms go off when the back door glass slides open. to alert adults of unauthorized backyard access. I personally had a supervisor who lost her child to this. Anchored and low-related safety pool covers. These are not solar blankets just to reduce your electric costs and keep your pool warm. These are rated to support loads of 485 pounds to over 600 pounds. They can get up, crawl, and walk back to the deck of the pool. They won't sink in the water. In-pool alarms. These are designed to sound an alarm if there's a disturbance in the water. If someone falls in, if someone enters the pool, The waves will connect and activate a trigger where they go off. The most important thing to note that if for some reason a child goes missing or you don't know where they're at, go check the water first if you're near a body of water. Check that first, rule that out before you look at other places. If a child's submerged in the water, the sequence is get them out, shout for help, call 911 immediately, and start CPR right away. This builds inter-thoracic pressure that can expel water and perfuse organs. Do not wait for the paramedics. There are many programs to learn CPR. We have the AHA and the American Red Cross. Our department even has a sidewalk CPR curriculum that they teach for events and is encouraged for everyone to take and is available if the city is interested. I ask you guys to do these five things. Test your gait, clear climbable items near fences, sign up for free swim lessons, make sure we have We name a good water watcher when we're watching our kids and sign up for a CPR class. We have resources. If you call 1-800-266-3880, that's done by Children and Family Services, that will take you and they will connect you to swimming resources. There are a lot of free programs or at low cost. And that's run by the First Five California, which is overseen by the Riverside County Children and Family Services Commission. You could also look at ruhealth.org at Rivco Water Safety, and that will direct you to other resources in your area as well. Where we could improve is adding regulations or ordinances where you carry of these layers that have at least two of those layers in place at every public pool. Also, if we could have or fund more sponsored programs for swim lessons, if you don't get in early enough, all these programs, they fill up and they max out. And there's not enough go around to get all the kids that are interested or parents to have their kids learn swim lessons. At this point, I can open up for questions.

Yeah. My first question is, and I know that there's been a lot of cities around the country have done it, and that is the fence. And some cities do require a fence around a pool. Is there anything here in Riverside County where there are cities that have that? And is it possible to do it in Eastvale?

Yes, it is actually possible to have those. I know Temecula has a program like that. You'd have to get the city attorney to create those ordinances that I was speaking of. But the big problems with fences is they don't keep up with the maintenance. Because of the weather outside, because of the weather, the change of conditions, they're not maintenancing enough. And you'll notice a lot of gates don't latch. And that's how these kids get through these barriers. Or they start to rust. They have pets. Things tend to bend and break as kids play and run into things and they're able to squeeze through.

Do you have any suggestions for floatational devices that families can feel comfortable using with their children? I know arm floaties aren't particularly at all safe in my opinion.

Any LIFES approved by the U.S. Coast Guard is acceptable. They have level one through three depending on their level. But there's a lot of pool flotation devices that they use, and they give a false sense of security to parents. So unless it has a U.S. lifeguard seal, which is usually a full vest, which is that Class 3, or the ones that go around the neck that have the straps, which is known as a Class 1, those are the only ones that are recommended for that. But that does not substitute an adult water watcher.

Thank you. Thanks, Captain. Thanks for your presentation. First of all, I want to thank you and your crew for the quick work in saving the seven-year-old's life. I can just imagine the traumatic experience that your crew goes through. So I hope that CAL FIRE does provide some sort of psych service after that. I can't imagine how traumatic that is. Could you just differentiate what a non-fatal drowning is considered?

Yeah, so a non-fatal drowning is where there is a submersion, where there is episodes where they take in water, but they don't die from it. So there are things known as a parking lot drowning, where sometimes when they take in water, when they take enough in, they'll cough a lot of it out. But because the water and we have salt in our bodies will cause a fluid shift that happens later where their lungs actually start filling up with fluid and thus they have trouble breathing. A lot of times we'll respond out later to that. There's treatments we give and preventative treatments. So for instance, like albuterol, which will dilate the alveoli to help push a lot of that stuff out. So though you might have a, DRYING INCIDENT, A CHILD MIGHT GET SUMMERGED OR PULLED UP RIGHT AWAY AND THE PARENTS THINK THEY'RE FINE, IT'S STILL IMPORTANT TO GET SEEN AND BE EVALUATED FOR THAT. LISTENING TO LUNG SOUNDS, WE MONITOR THINGS LIKE OXYGEN LEVELS AND THEN END TITLE CO2, WHICH IS THE CO2 YOU PUT OUT WE MONITOR. THINK OF IT AS WHEN YOU MEASURE THE EXHAUST OUT OF A CAR AND OUR SPO2, OUR OXYGEN SENSORS, IS THE INTAKE OF THE CAR. WE NEED TO HAVE THOSE NUMBERS MATCH SO WE KNOW THERE'S GOOD END-ORGAN PERFUSION. So there's a lot of things that parents only don't think of that we can treat and assess for. Thank you.

And with regards to that, would that be considered what is commonly known as dry drown?

Dry downing is another one, parking lot drowning, because usually when you're at the beach and things happen in the parking lot, but yes, that can be very similar.

Okay. Sorry. So you do recommend that parents that may have pools and have that near situation, but the kid's just coughing, not well, that would be something that you guys need to be called for or they need to take their children? Absolutely.

If they're not breathing normally, and especially if they have color change or they have pain from it and it's prolonged, they absolutely should follow up with an advisor.

Thank you.

We'd like to thank you for your support in the public safety for this city. Our department, our employees on the floor do value it and do recognize it. Thank you so much.

The next item is Item 5.6, Disaster Preparedness Presentation, presented by Emergency Services Coordinator Mary Hayes Maldonado.

Good evening. All right, so the National Preparedness Goal. As we go into National Preparedness Month being September, the National Preparedness Goal is a secure and resilient nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest threat.

12 simple ways to prepare.

Sign up for alert and warning. Sign up for AlertRivCo. That's huge. especially in this area, especially being up against Harupa Valley, so that you know if your area is being evacuated, whether or not you are in the area. Make a plan. Save for a rainy day. Practice emergency drills. Practice them often. Test family communication plans. Safeguard your documents. Plan with your neighbors. Make your home safer. Know evacuation routes. Assemble and update supplies. Get involved in your community and document and insure properly. Especially when you first buy a home, you get your insurance, you get everything for the home, but then you never update your insurance. Make sure you're updating the home insurance as well.

So preparedness starts with you.

Know your risk. Risks in Eastvale for natural hazards, you have wildfire, Earthquakes and riverine urban flooding. Those are just a few of the natural hazards. Some human caused technological hazards are transportation with hazmat. We're right up against the freeway and power outages with PSPS and any other type of wind event that might happen. A natural hazard can cause a technological hazard. Family emergency communication plans. These are huge. You can go to ready.gov and you can either print out a form and hand fill it in, or they have fillable forms, and you email it to yourself, and then you can print that as well. And this is just an example of it. I was able to just print it blank and put it up here. But it's your household information, phone numbers, family members, so that you have that for yourself or your family should something happen to you. Or should they be at home alone, they know who to call. Build an emergency supply kit. It's huge. For water alone in an emergency, you need to have one gallon per person per day for up to several days. And that's just for your drinking water. And that's your drinking water or your family's drinking water that doesn't include pets. Simple things like food, canned food.

If you have canned food, make sure you have a can opener.

Battery powered or hand crank radios. Eastville has a radio station that we are still in the process of getting launched for the city. That will be huge during an emergency when we have communication failures. Make sure you have a flashlight. And these are just recommendations, and you can keep building onto it. My truck for work is its own personal kit. I have a first aid kit. I have a toiletry kit. I have extra clothes. I have extra water. I have canned water in there just in case something were to happen. And I'm sent out to an incident, and I'm there for a few days. My home, I have my own kit. I don't have a kit for my dog, I need to get that. Special considerations, family members with access and functional needs. I am a person with access and functional needs. I wear glasses, I need an inhaler, and I carry an EpiPen with me. A lot of people fit into the access and functional needs category that you don't even think about. Older adults, children, people with disabilities, and even pregnant women are considered access and functional needs. And always don't forget your pets, food, water, any medications. This little dog there is mine. And he has every medication you can think of. Get involved. Volunteer. Please take a CERT course. There will be one in October. And join Neighborhood Watch. Here's our next CERT course. It's going to be October 23rd, 24th, and 25th here. Registration can be found through that QR code and it will also be advertised online. I'm going to try and drop it off at some community focal points to get some more involvement. Here are some resources. These QR codes will take you directly to the website where you can build a kit, where you can plan ahead, and where you can sign up for AlertRivCo. Again, AlertRivCo is going to be important. If you are out of town or at work and you don't work in the city or in that special geocoded area, and we have to send out an evacuation for whatever reason, a shelter in place, whatever it might be, you will get notified through Alert Rivco via email or text message, even if you're not in the area. Are there any questions?

Thanks again for the presentation. That was very informative. I know there's been a lot of earthquakes going on in South America, I think Venezuela, and I forget the other country. But this helps tremendously. I know people don't prepare until it's too late. And so hopefully this does help others to get prepared. In regards to the flooding, I know there's been a lot of talk in regards to the Super El Nino. I would just recommend to maybe city staff educating through maybe our social media about the potential for it and perhaps getting ready to clear the storm basins so that we don't experience any flooding out there. So thank you.

No questions.

Well, I really want to encourage people to sign up for the class. I have personally taken the CERT class myself, and I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I was pleasantly educated with the kind of information that was shared in situations that we may be foreseeing in the future. It's definitely a game changer for those people that like to prepare and like to be aware of their situations and their surroundings. So I do want to encourage people to go ahead and consider the class. It may seem a little lengthy, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that The timeline actually fit really well with the amount of information that was shared, and it didn't feel redundant, and it felt very, very informative. So I want to encourage people to consider that. That's all my comment to that.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Okay, any more questions? Okay, thank you. Thank you. Okay, moving on. You may submit public comment by filling out a public comment card. Public comments are allowed for a maximum of three minutes per individual comment. Please note that during public comment, the commission is not able to respond to inquiries or engage in dialogue. Clerk, has anyone submitted a comment card?

No, we do not have any requests.

Okay. Okay, moving on to items, the consent calendar. All matters on the consent calendar are considered routine and are to be approved with one motion unless a commissioner, staff member, or a member of the public requests separate action on a specific item. Any Eastvale staff member request to pull an item?

No.

Commissioners, would you like something pulled?

Not at this time. No, thank you.

At this time. I would like to solicit a motion and a second to vote on the remainder of the consent calendar I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar I Will second it Motion by vice chair Cruz second by chair Blair, please vote I

Motion passes 3-0.

OK. Item number eight, commission business items. There are none. Or do you have something? OK. The city staff report. Chair to ask the city staff. Nothing.

Good evening, Chair, Vice Chair, and Commissioners. For city staff report, we wanted to remind everyone that we have our 9-11 memorial event coming up at Fire Station 27 from 6.45 a.m. to 7.45 a.m. Also, it's that time of year, State of the City, Thursday, October 1st, at Vantage Point Church. Doors open at 5.30. And also, just want to remind everyone to stay cool, hydrated, and don't forget your four-legged friends also. That concludes my report. Perfect. Thank you.

Commissioner Communication, anything from the commissioners?

No. No, not at this time.

Perfect. Then we are going to adjourn. The next meeting of the Public Safety Commission is scheduled for Tuesday, September 22nd. The meeting is now adjourned.