Public Safety Committee - Regular Meeting

Afternoon. It is Wednesday, June 11 at 4PM. I'd like to call to order the Village of Wellington Public Safety Committee meeting. If you please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. We'll start with our roll call. Matthew Aldrich. Michael Arena. Present. Robert Chenoweth. Here. Ron Herman. Matthew Ladd. Present. Helena Munoz.

Present.

And I'm Michael Weil. Perfect. Any opening comments? On my left.

Good afternoon, everybody. Looks like we got a good agenda here. Looking forward to a good productive meeting this afternoon.

Thank you all for coming out. For us, this is Pat Cows. So I appreciate that.

I have nothing.

Nothing at this time.

No comment.

Excellent. Alright. So we'll move on to the approval agenda. Does everyone have a copy of last of this current agenda? Sorry. Yes. Motion to approve the agenda.

Motion to approve.

Second?

I have

a second. All in favor? Aye.

Fantastic.

And same for the approval of the minutes of last meeting. Does everyone have a copy? Yes. Yes. Perfect. Any motions?

Motion to approve. Second.

Second. All in favor? Aye. Best part of the meeting. Alright. I don't think we have any old business. So new business presentation on the school safety program.

I just like to introduce, we have representatives here from Unoptic. It's the camera vendor that we have selected by the village of Wellington to install speed enforcement cameras in our school zones. It's part of our school zone safety program. And we'd like to give you an overview presentation of it. You might have been familiar with this program. We're going to

launch it in August, August 11,

which will include a thirty day warning period. And we have representatives here to provide you an update.

Good afternoon, everyone. First and foremost, just before I go over the presentation, I want to congratulate you and thank you so much for having such an awesome staff to work with. We've worked with a lot of municipalities and cities over the years, but by far the village of Wellington has the best staff in my books and most importantly, Coast for sure. The sense of collaboration, the professionalism, the commitment to do whatever it takes to get the job done has been demonstrated on all levels on different departments. To see that cohesiveness of team ness together is just phenomenal.

So hands down, it makes our job a lot easier as well. So Ms. Coates, you so much. Just a note for that. To give you a little background, not so sure most of you probably know by now, the legislation passed in July 2023, where it allowed the municipalities to do speed enforcement automated speed enforcement in a school zone.

And the goal there is to do enforcement for any vehicles that are going over the speed limits of by 10 miles. So if the school zone is 15 and somebody is driving 26 miles an hour, then they have potential ticket violations. The law also requires that the municipality install very as many speed sign warnings informing the public and the community that you're entering a school zone and here are the zone speed hours. It also requires the municipality to prior to the commencing of the speed enforcement thirty days prior to that to do a public campaign awareness. To educate the community on you know, what's the program about, where is it implemented, what are the times and school zones, etcetera.

And as far as the time enforcement goes, it's the law allows for either thirty minutes before the school starts, during the school day, and or thirty minutes after. So hypothetically let's just say for instance the school day is seven to three let's say. So the village can do enforcement in that particular school thirty minutes before it starts, so that makes it six thirty And thirty minutes after the school ends, so that will be 03:30. So you can do it throughout the whole day. The law does provide and afford the potential violators the opportunity to contest and a procedure.

So they have the option either to pay or contest and if they do contest, there's this process there that they can follow. There are no points assessed to the drivers and insurance companies will not be notified.

When

it comes to school zone safety, sadly, the number of accidents and deaths involved in a school zone environment unfortunately it's an issue nationwide. And sadly to say here in the state of Florida, we ranked the second most dangerous state when it comes to pedestrians accidents and death. And the village of Wellington takes that seriously And as part of its vision, Vision Zero action plan decided and determined to go ahead and move forward with this program to install the cameras and the speed system in the 11 schools. In an effort to assist in that initiative, Genoptik did a fourteen day speed study in two of the village's schools. During those fourteen days we detected over five forty three vehicles going over the speed, the threshold.

So 15 for instance plus 10, so they were going over 26 miles an hour. Of those five forty three, 108 were going between the speed of 41 to 60 miles an hour. Just imagine somebody driving 100 vehicles going between the speed of 41 to 60 miles an hour in a 20 mile or in a 15 mile speed zone. And then more alarming is out of those five forty three, 11 of them were going over 60 miles an hour. It's just very, very reckless unfortunately.

This is just an example, a recent example in May I believe it was, yeah, last month or a couple of months ago of a vehicle going 40 miles an hour in I think that's Wellington High School, Nicole, I believe. Is that where we're doing the Where

we have the trailer?

Yeah, where we

the It's over by New Horizons Elementary.

Yeah, exactly. So this particular vehicle was like around 01:30 in the afternoon, and they're going over 40 miles an hour. And the following video will show you the speed of that particular vehicle going at 40 miles an hour in a school zone. As far as where the automated speed enforcement will be installed, they will be installed in the following 11 schools on the left hand side, they're listed alphabetically. And then when as far as the time enforcement, the start and ending are listed here.

So for example, Pink's Forest Elementary will start doing enforcement at 7AM and it will ends at 02:25 p. M. As far as the start date and warning period, so we're to go ahead and we're committed to deploying the systems and go live August 11, which is the beginning of the new school year. And prior to starting eleven start issuing violations on August 11, we will have a thirty day warning period. So the community, the drivers, everybody will receive if there's a violator, they'll receive a warning in the mail notifying them of the speed that they were going and so forth.

So from August 11 roughly to give or take till September 10, warnings will be issued out notifying the individuals that you were speeding in this particular school zone at this particular time. After that thirty day warning period, then actual violations will be issued and will be mailed to those potential violations. And from that time that they receive the violation, they'll have thirty days to either pay it or contest it. And with their violation, they'll have a pin number and a citation number and with the link to go on a web based site where they can enter their pin, enter and they'll have two options there either contest it or pay it. As far as the public education campaign, Genoptik collaborated with the village and collectively we put together a really solid educational program informing the public about the program.

We will have a dedicated website specifically for school zone speed enforcement in there from frequently asked questions to anything that's relevant and key information about that program will be listed on that site along with an email address specifically dedicated for any inquiries or questions for that program. A QR code will be developed and will be printed and digitally and on any marketing materials for easy access to additional information about the program. One other methods of communicating the program is a letter to the principals of all 11 schools, notifying them of the program, giving them additional information on it and then point of contact, etcetera. And hopefully they can take that information and then relay it to the relevant parents, students, etcetera. Another channels of communicating the public awareness program campaign is through the monthly e newsletter as well as local partnership with businesses and so forth.

These are some of the avenues, some of the ideas of circulating and letting the public be aware of what the program is all about. And of course, utilizing and capitalizing on the social media platforms where the village has presence definitely promote the program and build awareness of it there. And last but not least is take advantage of all the upcoming events that the village has to build awareness as well about the program in those events. In a nutshell, this is the program. If there's any questions, we'd be more than happy to assist and answer.

Do we have any questions?

Yeah, one question on the times. So because I if I recall a lot of the school zones have like a morning time and then an afternoon time. Wellington's just gonna do the whole day?

That's correct. The cameras per the state law are allowed to run thirty minutes prior to the start of school or breakfast program. So we're gonna go with the thirty minutes prior to breakfast program, which all the schools have. And then that camera is going to run and enforce at the school zone speed limit, which is 20 miles per hour for the school zone duration. And then when school is in session, it's then going to continue to enforce throughout the day at the regular posted speed limit. And if you violate that 11 miles over, you'll get a violation. Then thirty minutes at the end of school. So for that duration, yes, the camera will be enforcing.

So basically when the lights are flashing?

When the lights are flashing, that will be the school zone

Right.

Enforcement, mile per hour.

And the other times will be just what the posted zone is?

Correct. Up until thirty minutes at the end of school.

Like on Lake Worth Road when you got the, it drops to twenty, forty, 20, then I think goes up to forty five.

Correct.

When school is in session, it'll just be the what the normal posted, not the 20 miles.

Correct.

And that has been common among all other municipalities who are implementing this program for the whole school that day.

So the flashers will correspond with the 20 mile per hour enforcement period.

In other municipalities you've done this for, have you seen a reduction in speeding in the school zones?

Absolutely, within ninety days, six to ninety days, immediately you start seeing some gradual decrease in speeders. Some schools may take a little bit longer than that and frankly speaking we'll look forward to that day. Know, we don't want to implement this forever. You know, we look forward to the day we receive that call, hey, know of the 11 schools that we deployed, there's no need for them to be in those four schools, so pull them out.

One more follow-up question, it'll be 10 miles an hour over all the time, so when the speed limit's 40, it'll be 50 the camera

It's actually yes, clock it's technically 11 miles per hour we're going with, so 51.

We're allowing that one extra mile and then the other good thing is about like this is not about a got you, that type of scenario. We're deploying those systems inside of the school zone. So in other words, it allows the driver who's going 40 miles an hour to literally slow down and now they're entering the school zone, now the camera, they haven't even reached to the camera, so they have plenty of time, there's no excuses whatsoever. It's not like we deployed the systems before the school zone starts, which some companies do that. And I understand the reason, but it's not good.

Any other questions?

I would appreciate it.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Selection of top cop, top firefighter.

You have within your agenda packet the nominees for this year's top cop and top firefighter. And let's see. We wanna start with and hope hopefully a time to review, but we're gonna start I think with the top cop nominees. We had detective Michael Barbusio, deputy Dwayne Brown, deputy Matthew Fine, and deputy Davis Malvini. I'm not sure if you had time to review those or you need time. Any standouts?

Do I

need time to read the write ups? Perfect. Anyone want to discuss anyone or someone jumped out at you?

They were all excellent nominations, very well written. Kudos to all of the staff that did that. If I had to pick one based on the information I have, I would make a nomination for deputy Davis Malvini.

Any particular about him that jumped out at you?

The his investigations and arrest were pretty impressive. Seems like he's a pretty intuitive officer. I mean, they all did. It was this is really a tough choice. But he just stood out over the other nominations in my opinion.

I was definitely impressed with the amount of community involvement they they're participating just outside of just their regular eight to five job or not the work eight to five, of course. But just, know, the people at different rotary clubs and different things they've done. Very impressive. And what else they'd like to talk about, nominate?

I'd like to nominate Deputy Duane Brown. Actually, love the everything that I saw here. I actually had the opportunity to meet him. Actually, I wrote up an an email to his chain of command how amazing he did. There was an emergency that ran from a village village of Wellington Hospital. And amazing. He did an amazing job.

I was definitely impressed with all the other things he's done just outside of the Illinois. Mhmm. Anyone else have any comments?

I would second that nomination for mister deputy Brown.

Make it, perfect. I'll have a vote, for, all in favor of making deputy Dwayne Brown the, 2025 top cop. All in favor?

Aye.

Aye. All opposed? Congratulations. And

then we have our, top firefighter awards, for and our nominees this year are captain Craig Dubay, lieutenant Jason Haythorn, and driver operator Andrew Moraya.

Any open discussion on anyone?

Just a extra note on that. Captain Dubay has received top firefighter before.

Okay. Yes.

Not that that shouldn't matter, but did want to like

Extra top firefighter.

Outstanding professional.

Also, I was very impressed with the driver operator, Andrew Moria. I do like the fact he's a homegrown hero, being a graduate of Wellington High School. Also, the work that he does with the SWAT team is very impressive. Yeah. Is there anyone else I would like to bring up?

I would second that nomination.

Anyone else to talk about? Anyone else?

No. Same person.

Okay. We'll have a vote then. Make sure get the name right. Nomination to for driver operator Andrew Moira to be the top firefighter for 2025. All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed? No. The unanimous vote. And, again, kudos. You guys have some amazing applicants there. Alright. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office report. And

I just like to make mention lieutenant Matthew Lavinia is our new executive lieutenant here in District 8, and I'll let him introduce himself. But if you have noticed, Bobby Humphrey has moved on to another division in PBSO. So all good, and welcome lieutenant Lavinia.

Hi. Thank you all for having me and having a public safety committee meeting. That's that's great. Where I I just came from the city of Lake Worth Beach. I did six years over there as the executive officer. And we didn't have something like this as far as the Public Safety Committee. I think this is a really great thing to see. I know your agenda is pretty packed today. I'm new here. So I'm gonna kinda keep it a little bit short if I can.

Give you a little introduction about me. Talk briefly about some of the crime that we've the crime trends that we've had in some enforcement operations, if that's okay. Little bit about me, I served four years in United States Marine Corps and was honorably discharged in 1998. I went right into the Police Academy up in Daytona Beach. Graduated, got hired with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in January 1999.

So I have just over twenty six years of law enforcement experience all here with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. During that time as a deputy sheriff, I I had the opportunity to be in several different experienced units from row patrol. Did a lot of time in community policing as a deputy. Was a field training officer and also spent some time on the emergency field force. I then went over to the narcotics division where I spent a short period of time as an undercover narcotics agent before I got promoted to sergeant in 2006.

So I was a sergeant for ten years. In that time, I also was a community policing sergeant and road patrol sergeant. Most notably, I spent time in the community services division where I supervised several different units to include the police athletic league, the Explorer Program, the Graffiti Eradication Program, Community Relations, and the Volunteer Services Unit, which the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has one of the largest law enforcement volunteer services units in the nation. At the time we had about 19, almost 2,000 active volunteers in unit. So it was like running a very large police department all and of itself.

I got promoted to lieutenant in 2016 and did three years as a watch commander in patrol operations, both days and nights, and then had the opportunity to be an executive officer in the city of Lake Worth Beach. I was there for six years until I'm here now. I am also the executive officer for the Emergency Field Force, which is an all hazards call out team, voluntary call out team for primarily for public order disorder. We also do because we're an all hazards team, we also do several other things where disaster relief. We we responded out here to the village of Wellington to do search and rescue for the tornadoes.

Recently we get deployed for hurricanes not only within county and also outside of our jurisdiction. We do some dignitary protection. We are the resident security at Mar A Lago when the President's in town. And we have a lot of different facets within the unit. We have grenadiers who are in charge of deploying gas in the event that we need to have that with any type of riot situations.

We have a medical unit, we have like I said search and rescue. We even are trained to work with our helicopter, our aviations, where we do hoist operations and we do open water rescues and we also do land rescues. We have a bike squad within there. So there's a lot of different facets. It's about 100 I think about 160 or so members in a technical operations division where we have multiple trucks and whenever we get deployed somewhere we are self sufficient.

We bring our own portable bathrooms, we bring our own food and all our radio communications and all that kind of stuff. So it's a it's a pretty intensive and, you know, complicated unit that does a lot of good in in multiple situations. Other than that, that's just really about me and my experience here in the sheriff's office. So going on to some of the crime trends. Overall, year to date, crime is down within the village of Wellington.

There's really not a whole lot to talk about with that right now. Just remember that crime is cyclical, so it ebbs and flows. Remember, an eye out that it is summer now, so the kids are out of school, so we do expect an uptick in activity. So it's a good time to remind everybody to if you see something, say something, give us a call. If we don't know if something is happening, we don't know to respond to it unless we see it ourselves and we rely on the community for that information and we are very happy to respond to anything that you all call us for.

As far as some recent enforcement operations that we had wrap up, I'm going to talk about two of them. One is our Emoto operation and the other one is the golf cart operation that we had. So the Emoto came about because it was sparked by a personal tragedy that Captain Adazio experienced. A family friend lost her life in an Emoto accident. So she responded, you know, very definitively getting out ahead of this problem before it became an issue here in the village of Wellington.

We launched a social media awareness campaign in order to get the word out about the laws that correspond with Emoto operations. The enforcement resulted in several arrests, a lot of criminal citations written for violations. We met we were met with some challenges because the Emotos would flee a lot from us. So we had to we had to come up with creative investigative and surveillance means in order to successfully catch them in action. But more more notably, we had a lot of success dealing with the parents of these kids that were on these Emotos in a very positive way and had the most success trying to reduce the number of incidents that we have by working with the parents when we did catch the juveniles and brought them to the parents and the attention to the parents.

Were very, very good, well received working with us and taking away some of their modes of transportation and things of that nature. The other one is the golf cart safety campaign that we did. It was an educational campaign. So we put our community policing deputies in golf carts, had them out there on the on the pathways to educate violators. So they have speed limitations.

They have stop sign limitations. The most prevalent issue that we had was what's called plowing where the golf carts have a do not have the right of way over pedestrian or bicyclists on the golf cart on the paths. So they aren't aware of that necessarily and they would plow through causing pedestrians and bicyclists to have to get off the bike path and out of their way. Some of these things will cause accidents or injuries. So our main focus was on educating, writing warnings and educating people with the proper use of these multimodal paths.

And that's really all that I have. If anybody has any questions for me? One

quick question. First of all, congratulations on the new post. I'm sure it'll be your favorite of all time. And only because I saw this on the news yesterday. It's my understanding, I guess, I didn't know this. You can text 911 if there's an emergency, but

you can't speak. Does that work? So we do have means of communicating, with 911. Yeah. We also have a a app that the sheriff's office put out, specifically for, communicating with us other than calling on the phone. We also have, things on the website where you can make reports through the website or or make a complaint through the website that comes to us. But most most of the time when it's a true emergency and you need to use 911, you wanna call 911 and they do have the ability to communicate with people who don't have that that are unable to speak.

Okay. Excellent. Congratulations again. Thank you. Fire Rescue.

Hi. Good afternoon. Nice to

see

everybody. Congratulations to the lieutenant. I wanna welcome him to the village and to the club. Two and a half years ago, I started with Captain Adazio and Lieutenant Humphrey here. We all had our first meeting together, so it was kinda neat.

We were the newbies and fumbled through it together, but you did a very nice job. So welcome. Look forward to working with you as well. I'll give you a couple updates first and then I'll go through the quarterly response time report and then we have a brief presentation for you today. In January, our our Administrative Services Division started a new wellness initiative and it's about getting out in the battalions and working out with the crews and getting the crews to work out together and it's an organized fitness program.

So we participated, Battalion two participated in that for the month of May and that was really good and we had two firehouses out together working out together and so it was really good to jump start and get everybody motivated to get heart healthy and everything else. It's good for mental health, know, get the endorphins going. So that was really cool, we participated in that. By May 30, we had completed all of these safety walk throughs with school PD. There are annual safety checks that they have to do and submit that started with Marjorie Stoneman Douglas I believe after that incident happened.

So we completed all those by May 30. Our hurricane preparations for our stations are all completed and everybody's ready to go. Coming up in July, all of the we have a battalion wide EMS training that will be starting on pit crew CPR and we also have a rotating calendar of live fire training that we've been regularly participating in. We're ready for your fourth of July celebration. We have a dedicated brush truck and engine to be there for the works display and we also have a rescue on standby for medical needs and we'll also have our reserves here that will be helping out at your medical tent, handing out water and band aids and whatever else may be needed.

I'm waiting on an update for Station 20 Five's renovation when they're going to break ground on that and I will keep Nicole posted on that so she could share the information and then when that's done, we'll have a nice little opening ceremony. We took applications for firefighter, paramedic, firefighter, EMTs. The applications were opened June. We are looking to put on at least 90 personnel and get them all trained up and out on the streets in the next twelve month cycle. And with that, I have your quarterly response time report.

This is from March 10 through June 10. We had a total of seventeen oh seven emergency responses in the village, 73% of those were medical calls. The average dispatch handling time was forty five seconds, the average turnout time was forty three seconds, average travel time was five minutes and nine seconds, and the average total overall response time was six minutes and thirty six seconds. Does anybody have any questions for me before I introduce community risk reduction?

The time always amazes me.

We do our best.

Any questions?

No. All right. Good.

Okay. So about four or five years ago, the fire marshal's office in community risk reduction, they recognized that that food trucks were not being regularly inspected and it wasn't really mandated that they be inspected. We had some really significant fires at some of the food trucks and so it really initiated and showed a need that, you know, for for a food truck inspection program. So I have some members of the team from community risk reduction here, but assistant fire marshal Chris Henry has a little presentation about food truck safety and inspections.

Good afternoon. Thank you for having us out today. I brought Pam Summers, my supervisor assisting inspections. And Jessica Hance is my expert in food trucks. About five years ago, Chief Terita and I both were Palm Beach Guardians. We retired Palm Beach Guardians and came to the county in the same positions, fire marshal and assistant fire marshal. We brought this program originally with us. It wasn't being done in the county. It's a very important program. I'm going to go through this presentation I gave to the Parks and Rec last year about an hour, hour and a half.

I'm not going to go that long today. I promise you. So the purpose this presentation we give to the customer, we give to local municipalities whoever who requests it will give it to. It's basically to provide basic safety rules, set up training requirements for food trucks. It's not all inclusive because every food truck's different. Every municipality is different. So there's changes as we go through the program. The objective is to have a safe and successful event, every single one of them. This is the focus. I've knocked it down to eight.

I usually have about 15 different little topics that I cover when we do this presentation so I try to knock it down quite a bit. The why. Why do we inspect food trucks? Well, why do we have fire code? So here we go. 1911 New York, shirt waste goes factory. A lot of deaths there, hundred forty three deaths. People couldn't get out. Doors were locked. Staircases outside were not working.

So we had fire code developed. Exit signs, doors couldn't be locked. Coconut Grove, 1943 in Boston, four hundred ninety seven were dead. They're all downstairs in 1st Floor. They couldn't get up the stairs. They got up the 2nd Floor, revolving doors pushing on both sides. They didn't collapse. There were no doors next to it. A lot of stuff came from the code for that. Seems like yesterday, the nightclub fire in Rhode Island, it's over twenty years ago now. We have crowd managers based on this fire. So there's a 100 deaths here. So what prompted code on fire truck or food trucks?

We're live out here at 3rd in Wyoming, and we are on video right now of this lunch truck.

This load truck that exploded into flames.

I'm talking to witnesses who said that about 05:30 today in Feltonville, this they heard a loud boom, and they saw a woman who was badly burned sitting outside the truck.

Wow. A mother and daughter died on this. There was total 12 casualties. The propane tank on there's two propane tanks on the back of that truck. One of them survived the was blown away 92 feet. It was manufactured 66 meters.

Saying it was a propane tank that exploded inside this truck. One woman back We're live out here at 3rd in Wyoming.

It was manufactured sixty six years prior to the event. It had never been through an inspection. It had no pressure relief valve on it. $88,000,000 out of court settlement. And this is when the start of food truck inspections really started becoming big based on this fire. This was just a couple years ago in Vero Beach. A lady died here on this fire. Brand new food truck. She had a gas explosion. If you look at that truck, it's held together with rivets.

She's inside that food truck. Think about your lungs. Your lungs are like paper tissue that's really thin. So you can imagine what it did to her lungs inside of that truck when you look at the truck itself. North Palm Beach, 2023. West Palm Beach, down by the airport. We inspected this food truck in Palm Beach County two weeks before the event. They failed their inspection. This is what the inside of the ventilation system looked like. So they failed the inspection.

They went to another jurisdiction, had an event, caught fire. Royal Palm Beach right down the street right before Christmas in 2023. Food truck. A couple bought this food truck, never used it, decided they were gonna sell it. So they had a technician come out to run through the food truck to make sure it was safe to sell. They turn on the gas. The owner said, I smell gas. The tech says, don't worry about it. Goes and lights the burner. Two trauma alerts, Saint Mary's Hospital.

Again, the importance of these inspections. Came up with basically four laws for food trucks. First, this is out of the code if it produces smoke there must be an exhaust system. If it produces grease laden vapors there must be a suppression system. At every solar change out and every time this vehicle moves from point a to point b regardless of the distance, a leak detection action is required at every connection point in coupling.

So when you set up a food truck out here and it's in the wrong spot, it's got to move 20 feet, they got to go all over and they got to do the sprays all over again because every time that truck moves, all those joints are moving. And number four, food trucks don't explode, but LP gas does. 20 pound tank. So you can imagine what it does. Okay.

So what is a food truck? We started this definition. It's pretty much the state level definition now. Mobile food truck is any enclosed or partially enclosed vehicle. Self propelled or otherwise movable from place to place. And used to vent food where preparation of heating results in grease laden vapors produced regardless of the heating source. You got gas, wood, charcoal, electricity, any combination thereof. We're going to concentrate on gas. This is a self contained. This is Doondog.

It was manufactured in Deerfield Beach. I was in Palm Beach Gardens when they picked up this food truck, then on the way, they dropped it off to inspect right out of the factory. It failed. It didn't have didn't have emergency shutoff on it. It didn't have the signage that was required. I went down to that factory after I got hired with the county and I had the code in my hand. Asked them how they manufactured the food trucks. Do they manufacture them to the fire code? And they said yes. I went through looking at all these different trucks.

I gave them a copy of the code afterwards and said this is the code you need to be following because you're not following the fire code. This is a tow behind. This is an ice cream truck. It's not a food truck. Now if they're going to start with a deep fat fryer making cones on the inside, now it is a food truck because they're producing grease laden vapors.

We do not inspect a side event, but we will actually unofficially inspect it if they have a generator because we're going to make sure the generator is safe with the gasoline and all. And this is your typical canteen on truck that you see at a construction site. So we don't inspect these at all. Inspection types. We do what's called a CAL and an MFT. A CAL is one we do on-site. You have an event, we show up at the event. We're gonna inspect courtesy every single one of the trucks that are there. I have to point out that we cannot deny a truck from operating in your jurisdiction or anywhere within the county in our jurisdiction. It's up to the host.

We will inform you if there's an issue with it. If it's an emergency gas leak, we will shut the gas off. But by state law, we cannot deny the operation of a food truck at an event. Only the host can do that. MFT, mobile food truck, that's where we have them come to us. That inspection takes about an hour, hour and a half. We go through that from bumper to bumper, everything. We make them light the burners, we make them go through all the procedures. It's very detailed. We charge a 120 or a $110 for that.

It's an annual inspection. State log in. They say you cannot charge them for licensing your food truck in your in your city or in the county. The only thing we can charge them for is a safety inspection. There's nothing in the state that state law that says we can't. We ran it through the county attorney and and they've agree with it. So we are actually charging for that inspection. On-site inspections, we don't charge. Some of the ones we see on-site have never been inspected, never gone through the detailed inspection. We let them know that they are still required to come in and have that done.

Okay, those two. Part of the inspection is a cooking fuel. You have combination wood, electricity, or gas, we go with the propane. Natural state is colorless, tasteless, odorless, non toxic. Ethylmer Captain is added to it to serve possible so you can smell it.

When I was in gardens right by the turnpike in PJ Boulevard, there was a off gas station for gas and you smell that Mercaptan. We were getting nine eleven calls for that constantly because they're associating that with the gas. Specific gravity, it's heavier than air so it's gonna sink and work its way up. Shutoffs. 90 degree turns what they need to have for an emergency shutoff.

Not a knob you're gonna keep on turn. It's gotta be a quick 90 degree. I usually have some of these with me so you can actually see what they are and get a feel for them. This is what it looks like. I'm going go through where they can't be. They can't be on the roof. They can't be mounted within the housing of the vehicle. Cannot be stored or used in operational compartments. And cannot exceed 200 gallons of aggregate capacity. When we get back I'm going to show you the Doom Dog one again.

You see that tank right there? The emergency shut off they added that after I inspected that. One thing I didn't know this truck it actually needs some type of plate underneath that gas cylinder. You can't have any stuff road debris going up. So if we receive that, I haven't seen that truck since, so I don't know if they've ever, someone else has inspected it and made that correction.

But they didn't have shut off under there neither. So they just thought they could have the signage, but they didn't have the 90 degree turn. Vehicles need to have a propane detector and they also need to have a gas, propane and carbon monoxide detector. And they have to have a carbon monoxide detector. Gas leak, we actually use the kind of devices that you see up top.

But the best way to do it is actually with a spray bottle. Put a little 10% soap solution from the kitchen, spray it, and you'll see it bubble up just like you see it on this picture here. Cylinders, as I said on the Philadelphia one that never been checked in sixty six years. It's every twelve years from day to manufacture. Seven years after that twelve and every five after that.

When first time I was giving this presentation, we went out to the training ground at the fire station headquarters, grabbed a couple of tanks. You know, the gas company drops them off, picks them up. We use them up in the tower for training. The first tank, two years out of date, never been inspected. It's like in we're signing for these, but we're not inspecting them. We're assuming just like the Philadelphia food truck that they're bringing in tanks that are certified. So we have we actually checked that now. So that's what you see for the date, month, year. This one it needs to be tested in 2030. Next thing we check is generators.

Generators, gas, they can be vehicle mounted or they can be portable. The B Strong one up there, that was in the factory when I was down there. That actually got shipped to South Korea. Again, there's something in there that didn't meet code. It can be boardable, vehicle mounted. Location. That's the big thing here. 12 feet from any openings, air intakes means an egress. Wellington out here when you have your events out here, you have a shoreline out there which is awesome. They installed.

So they don't even have to use generators when they do the vents here for the most part. They can just plug right into that shoreline. Most places where they have the events, you go to Abacoa, they can't get 12 feet away from the vehicle with the generator. They're so close to buildings as they are now. So we allow them to actually get closer, but we wanna try to keep the exhaust 10 to 12 feet away from where any of the openings of the vehicle.

If they're running the fuel truck and they have to refuel the generator, everything shuts down. They can't leave the gas running. It has to be completely shut down. Generator cools up, then they can refuel, and then they can start back up. Fire suppression equipment. Basically two things is the extinguishers and the automatic fire extinguishing system. Those are inspected. I'm going to through the safety inspection real quick. These are the things we cover. General safety.

We do cooking safety, fire extinguishers, gas safety, electrical safety. We started about a year and a half ago because we charge $110 We want to give something back to the customer. I've got a couple of these I can. Give us back to the customer with the expectation what we want from them. The first part is actually the safety checklist is what we are going to check.

So they know every single time what we're going to inspect. So every time we go out there, you go out to an event, if they've been inspected by Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, they should have that folder and all you need to do is ask them for their six part fire rescue folder and they should be able to present that to you. They have a current checklist. Part two is the gas detection log. Again, if they move from point A to point B during that event, there should be two entries in there, whether it passed or whether it failed.

Part three is a training log. They're required, everyone that operates that food truck is required to have annual training. All the one to 12 is actually in the fire code, what they need to be trained on. So what we do is we provide them that information. We provide them CO information.

We provide them CPR guide so they can actually read up on this. We don't provide the training, but we provide the materials so they understand what they have to, what they have, what they're responsible for. We support a little extincter shutting down fuel sources, notifying the fire department, refueling, how to refuel, how to perform gas leaks, understanding fuel properties. So when we check it should be less than a year for every time we check their training record. Section four is operating emergency guidelines.

If they have a stove in there there should be operating instructions on how to operate that stove, How to operate the burner, how to turn the gas on and off, the suppression system, how to activate the suppression system. All the manufacturer documentation should be in there. Now we understand when we do the initial inspection we get into this folder they're not going to probably have that information with them. But we know when we go do the next annual inspection all that stuff like I said should be in there. Next is the suppression system report.

The same one that we see in a restaurant every six months they have to have that suppression system inspected. It's the biggest failure you're going to see in a restaurant, it's the biggest failure you're going to see in a food truck. And part six is NFPA 58 systems report. The gas system and piping, everything needs to be inspected at least once a year. They do a pressure test to make sure there is no leaks in that system.

So there is no set form for them to provide us. We created this one so they understand what we're looking for. If they give it to the gas company whether they fill that or not. If they give us right now they just give us a receipt from the gas company that has been inspected, we will accept that. The walkthrough. Safety inspection. We look for signage. We look for wheel chocks, for CO detector, gas detector. Wheel chocks we're not really concerned about when South Florida the ground is flat. When you get to San Francisco, remember this is the national code, you're going have a wheel chocks around there.

We look for any damage. We look at the suppression system, we look at the cleanliness of it, we look if it's going to operate. We look at electrical systems. Every one of these is an electrical violation, come from food truck pictures we took when we did inspections. We make sure they're certified. Gas system, maximum hydrostatic date. We look for damage. We look for leaks. So I just I always reiterate this. I have it in there a couple times that they have to test the fittings every time.

Event layout setup. The 10 foot rule. Each vehicle should be 10 feet apart. It should be 10 feet away from any fire system. It needs to be 10 feet away from any building. It needs to be 10 feet away from any fire department access road. Another view of it, how it should look. Above and there's your generator. You can't get a generator 10 to 12 feet usually away from depending where they are. So we're looking to have them about three feet providing at least the exhaust is away from where people are working.

They should also actually have some type of cage around them so whether it's a dog kennel cage whatever to prevent people from getting to it touching the exhaust or playing with the system. There's your 10 foot rule. They weren't too concerned about the back truck until that happened right there. Then they're like, oh, shit. Pardon my language.

Then they back it away. So they waited till after that little explosion happened. These are actually food truck around the country. This is how they set them up. This is no. No. It's not 10 feet. No. It's not 10 feet. This is something our local amendments to the fire code because we've had food trucks at gas stations, and they should be certain distances away.

So this is the first gas station that we had one. They can't operate there anymore because we made sure the standoff distance is 50 feet, 10 feet up from the structures, 50 feet from the pumps, vents. So we shut that one down. Went somewhere else. I don't know where they went. And that's pretty much a quick thing of what we go through. Like I said, it just normally takes about an hour, hour and a half. So I have a lot more stuff in there.

That's impressive. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Very informative.

Questions? Is there anything

on like I know when the like food safety has a score or grade in restaurants. Is there anything externally the customer would see knowing that this truck is safe?

Food trucks.

Was it just the full? Okay.

No nothing required.

Have a question. In regards to our fourth of July celebration, do you In regards to our village fourth of July celebrations, do you guys come out and inspect our trucks and make sure they're like distance

We come out to the events when we're invited. But we when we did that, we've done that several times over years last couple years. But we actually came out and did this presentation to Parks and Rec, and we opened it up to food truck owners to come in. And we actually would do the inspection free if they came in for that particular and you were hosting an event that night too. That's when we found that's when I found out you have shorelines out here. I had no idea. But the trucks are closer in 10 feet. So once we did that, Parks and Rec understood you've gotta have that 10 feet. So you guys you guys do a phenomenal job here. You get to Abacoa. Forget it. Abacoa, they just park them close.

So We're not trashing any other municipality.

We're number one.

She runs a tight ship out here.

That's excellent. Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

I think it's amazing that you started with exercise and ended with food trucks.

Yes. That cheeseburger looks good.

It is. Now I'm extremely hungry. Alright. Staff report.

Alright. I'll be I'll be brief. I did wanna just circle back to the top cop and top firefighter. We're gonna check now that we have the winners for this year. We'll check with their availability but that will be scheduled in a September meeting and we'll invite you and send you a calendar invite to be there to support their awards. I would be remiss if I didn't mention it is hurricane season. We are in hurricane season. The village of Wellington is prepared. I did have just our hurricane guide or Village Of Wellington hurricane guide on page number 10 is our important information or our important contacts and ways for residents could stay connected with the village of Wellington. It's also at wellingtonfl.gov/storm.

So we encourage residents to take a look at that site and look at the good information we have on there. And then our next regularly scheduled Public Safety Committee meeting is on September 10 at 4PM here in the council chambers. And with that, if there's any questions for me?

No. We're good. All right. Any closing comments? I have no comment. Thank you very much, everyone. Oh, do we have any public comments I guess I should ask for? All right. In that case, we are adjourned. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you.