Page 4 - The Friday Flyer • July 17, 2015

A-4 THE FRIDAY FLYER
JULY 17, 2015
At the July 16 special meeting, the Canyon Lake City Council was scheduled to consider a lease agreement with the Canyon Lake Property Owners Association for the building that formerly housed Riverside County Fire Station 60. The City hopes to use the build- ing for the City's new municipal Fire Department.
A message from the Mayor about Fire Services
The following is a message from Can- yon Lake Mayor Jordan Ehrenkranz:
“Residents have been expressing concern about the state of the City’s Fire Services. I would like to take the time to reassure residents that the City is still covered for emergency medical and fire services.
“Medical services (which are a signif- icant portion of emergency calls by City residents) will remain with the same provider: American Medical Response (AMR). AMR has a contract to service emergency medical calls countywide. Their contract has response time re- quirements, and Canyon Lake has one of the shortest response time requirements in the contract.
“The City has hired an Interim Fire
Chief. The City also has a majority of the equipment at Station 60, including the fire truck. At the July 16, 2015 Spe- cial Meeting, the City Council consid- ered additional job descriptions, a salary schedule, and lease agreement for the fire station.
“City staff is diligently working on putting in the necessary items to fully staff the station, taking a task that is nor- mally a six- to 12-month process and try- ing to implement it in four to six weeks. In addition to working on fully staffing the station, the City is evaluating other options available to provide services to our residents.
“Declaring the Local Emergency has allowed the City the time to move to- ward setting up cooperative agreements
for mutual or automatic aid, dispatch and others, while staffing up a City de- partment.
“In the meantime, our residents are safe. If there is a fire-related emer- gency, a fire engine will be dispatched from a surrounding station (the same stations that responded to many of our emergency calls in the past) under the mutual aid provided during the City’s declared local emergency.
“I would like to reassure residents that the City is taking any and all steps necessary to provide important emer- gency services to our residents, and will continue to do so.
Council Special Meeting
The Canyon Lake City Council held
a special meeting yesterday, July 16. The City Council was scheduled to approve renewal of the “State of Local Emergen- cy,” as well as go over implementation of the City’s new Fire Department staff- ing, lease and estimated timelines. On the agenda were:
• Approval of Fire Chief, Fire Cap- tain, Fire Engineer and Firefighter Job Descriptions
• Approval of Resolution No. 2015- 21 Amending the Salary and Wage Schedule for Employees of the City for Fiscal Year 2015-16 by adding Fire De- partment Positions.
• Approval of Lease Agreement with the CLPOA for lease of Fire Station 60.
• Update Regarding Estimated Time- line.
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