Oct 19November 5, 2019
During the 22 available business days in September the personnel assigned to the Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal conducted 329 field inspections and completed 51 individual plan reviews.
During this period staff attended 10 development related meetings, responded to 179 requests for counter assistance. These do not include responding to multiple requests for field inspection
scheduling for projects in process.
Plan review turn-around time is currently 8 days and inspections are averaging within 72 hours of requests. Development review of Planning case applications are in some cases currently
5 days ahead of due dates.
Revenue collected for plan reviews, inspections and planning application reviews are as follows:
October 1-4 $7,396.60
October 7-11 $7,412.64
October 15-18 $14,839.80
October 21-25 $18,369.08
October 28-31 $7,035.48
Total Revenue $55,053.60 (October)
** These numbers were provided by Fire permit counter staff and come from the Acela Permit tracking program utilized for this purpose. Totals
may not reflect any permit fees collected on the 31st end of business day.
The Office of the Fire Marshal (OFM) – Menifee Currently staffs Riverside County Fire Assistant Fire Marshal, Fire Safety Specialist (position has now been filled 10/9), Fire Systems
Inspector, Fire Permit Technician and an Office Specialist II. Currently the office is conducting inspections, planning cases, DRC, meetings and plan reviews of Residential and Commercial
projects.
Office of the Fire Marshal (Menifee) is continuing to see an increase in inspections for both residential and commercial projects. Our fire inspector has been busy with various types
of inspections including, fire sprinklers for both residential and commercial, fire alarms, hood and duct inspections and under fire lines and water supply inspections. For the month
of October we seen an increase in inspections with an additional 125 more inspections.
Our plan Reviews have included Bush Fire Kitchen, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Menifee Urgent Care, Atria Senior Living and New Justice Center. We are also reviewing residential additions,
second units and accessory dwellings. This past month we have reviewed various Special Event applications including City of Menifee’s fall festival, and Christmas tree lots within the
city.
New Fairfield Inn & Suites Hotel has now submitted Fire Sprinkler Plans and Fire Alarm Plans and are in the process of review and re-submittals. Artesa community is continuing to move
forward quickly and has had numerous inspections to the fire sprinklers and fire alarm systems. The
32 apartment complex is moving forward on the next phasing of apartments to build. Atria Senior Living has is continuing to work in phases with their large tenant improvement of a
replacement of a new fire sprinkler system that was outdated with numerous pinhole leaks, a new fire alarm system with delayed egress and renovation for the new memory care corridor
to the existing facility.
In between inspections, plan reviews, document retention, scheduling, billing, as well as required reports, Menifee staff has a full workload as do other divisions in this growing community.
Office of the Fire Marshal is continuing to work on an annual inspection program. The annual inspection program would be geared to inspect all business within the city limits to sure
that fire and life safety requirements are being met. Inspections should be anticipated to being early next year. In addition, we have now a new Fire module in the cities Acela program
that will help us document Fire related permits and inspections.
The Fire Marshal services provided locally continue to receive positive comments on service delivery and assistance to the public and business community from customers, City staff and
the Development community.
Respectfully Submitted,
Sonya Bu
Fire Marshal
Riverside County OFM (Menifee)