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FM Nov 19 City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal Riverside County Fire Department OFM Statistics for the Period of November 1st, 2019 – November 29th, 2019 December 4, 2019 During the 18 available business days in September the personnel assigned to the Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal conducted 219 field inspections and completed 58 individual plan reviews. During this period staff attended 12 development related meetings, responded to 111 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: November 1 $224 November 4-8 $12,789.44 November 12-15 $11,649.04 November 18-24 $9,678.92 November 25-29 $9,394.88 Total Revenue $43,736.28 (November) ** 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 November 1st, 2019 – November 29th, 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, 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. Our plan Reviews have included a new 7-Eleven with a Fuel Canopy, ARCO gas station with Under Ground Fire Line, Dunn Edwards Paints TI, Forterra Pipe New Building, and various new single family homes. 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 Christmas Tree Lighting Event at MSJC, Santa’s arrival at Countryside Market place and Christmas tree lots within the city. New Fairfield Inn & Suites Hotel have had numerous inspections and is now ready for first floor inspections of the fire sprinkler system. Artesa community is continuing to move forward quickly and has had inspections scheduled for the fire sprinklers and fire alarm systems on a weekly basis. Atria Senior Living has is continuing to work in phases City of Menifee Office of the Fire Marshal Riverside County Fire Department OFM Statistics for the Period of November 1st, 2019 – November 29th, 2019 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. The Facility has now started renovations to the existing kitchen area and have since relocated all cooking equipment and operations to a portable location outside the 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 are preparing to conduct our annual school inspections as well as our state mandated facilities within the city limits. 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)