FM Report
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
October 1st – October 31st, 2019
November 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
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
October 1st – October 31st, 2019
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
City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal
Riverside County Fire Department OFM
Statistics for the Period of
October 1st – October 31st, 2019
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)