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JUNE 21, 2019 THE FRIDAY FLYER A-3
The Motels to perform Saturday at lodge

New wave band The Mo- show. Kenny has performed
tels will be making their at more than 500 venues in
debut in Canyon Lake to- Southern California and
morrow evening, June 22, boasts a vast musical ca-
in the Holiday Bay Room at reer, including lead guitar-
the lodge. General Admis- ist of the 80s/90s rock band
sion tickets are sold out. VIP Renegade, which is widely
tickets cost $54 and can be recognized as being the
purchased at the POA office PHOTO PROVIDED BY KENNY MARQUEZ first Hispanic or “Chicano
or online at canyonlakepoa. rock” band to gain accep-
com. tance in the United States.
The Motels first de- The Motels concert is
fined MTV with Top Ten the third of four concerts in
hits “Only the Lonely” and Kenny Marquez the POA’s 2019 Concert at
“Suddenly Last Summer.” the Lodge series. The series
The band released five albums on Capi- will wrap up on Nov. 2 with a performance
tol Records between 1979 and 1985, two by country music singer and songwriter
of which earned gold record status. Their Billy Dean. Dean’s studio albums have ac-
newest record, “The Last Few Beautiful counted for more than 20 hit singles on the PHOTO PROVIDED BY DOUG SCHULTZ
Days,” was released in the spring of 2018. Billboard country charts, including 11 Top
Concertgoers are invited to meet the Ten hits. Tickets for the Billy Dean concert
members of the band at a Meet and Greet cost $24 for General Admission and $49 for
after the show. VIP. Tickets can be purchased at canyon-
Kenny Marquez will be opening the lakepoa.com. The Motels

Homeowners invited to RFID Workshop

The POA Board of Directors invites each day, the most efficient way for off access with the click of a button. board approved the policy; however,
homeowners to attend an RFID Work- members to enter the community is RFID eliminates costs associated the policy will not be implemented un-
shop on Wednesday, June 26, at 7 p.m. with an RFID transponder affixed to with issuing annual vehicle decals and til the Family Vehicle Transponder Fee
in the Holiday Bay Room at the lodge. their vehicle. The transponder allows allows staffing levels to be adjusted on addition is approved. The board will be
The workshop will cover how RFID vehicles to use the RFID lanes for peak and non-peak hours. voting on this addition on July 8.
works and the benefits of this access quicker access. RFID transponders are free for all To take advantage of this new fea-
option. It will also cover how RFID RFID access benefits include pre- members. To get a transponder, bring ture, the homeowner and the non-res-
works for non-resident family mem- cise tracking and control of community the vehicle and current vehicle regis- ident family members must visit the
bers. access, provides efficient and fast entry tration to the POA office during regular POA office together. Upon appropriate
Homeowners are reminded to bring into the community, reduces human er- business hours. verification and payment, staff will is-
their Canyon Lake POA ID card to the ror associated with the visual inspec- The POA Board of Directors recent- sue a parking identification decal and
meeting, it will be used to verify mem- tion of decals, allows staff to focus ly approved a new option to allow up affix the transponder to the vehicle.
bership. more on verifying identities since there to three non-resident family members Transponders will not be issued to
With an estimated 12,000 vehicles is no need to manually operate the gate who visit frequently to get RFID tran- contractors, service providers, or any
entering Canyon Lake's three gates and allows management to turn on and sponders for a one-time fee of $20. The vehicle that is registered to a company.

City enters into fire protection services contract

The City of Canyon Lake’s current off shift, the next highest ranking person
cooperative agreement with the County is in charge of the station. This staffing
of Riverside for fire protection services change will save the city approximately
will expire on June 30. On Monday, the $95,000 in the 2019/2020 fiscal year. “If
City Council authorized City Manager we had not made the change, our contract
Chris Mann to enter into a one-year co- with the county would have increased by
operative agreement for fire protection, $125,000. With the change, the increase
fire prevention, rescue, fire marshal and is only about $30,000,” Mann said.
medical emergency services with the While the staff is concerned by the
County of Riverside. alarming rate at which the county has
The estimated cost of the contract for been increasing the costs charged to the
fire protection services for the 2019/2020 city for providing fire protection servic-
fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2019, and es, time is needed to find a viable solu- PHOTO BY ART FEMISTER
ending June 30, 2020, is $2,259,064. tion to this challenge. The city entered
This estimate is based on maintaining a into one more twelve-month cooperative
“municipal” staffing model through Au- agreement with the county with the in- The Canyon Lake City Council held a special meeting on Monday to solicit public input and
gust 2019 and then switching to a “non- tention of exploring cost-saving options discuss the proposed 12-month agreement with the county for fire protection and emergency
municipal” (also known as “traditional”) for future fiscal years. medical services.
staffing model for the remainder of the Since 2014, the amount the county
fiscal year. has charged the city for providing fire drastic increases have thrown the city’s $3.7 million. As the current budget situ-
Under a “municipal” staffing model, protection and emergency medical ser- budget into a structural deficit. If not ation is not sustainable, the City Council
there is a captain on shift at all times. vices has risen approximately 79 per- corrected, the city’s budget deficit of
Under the “non-municipal” model, there cent. City revenues, while also growing, nearly $670,000 will quickly eat away at and city staff are in the process of evalu-
is just one captain. When that captain is have not been able to keep pace. These its General Fund reserves, estimated at ating potential options.

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