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Hemet City Manager Christopher Lopez
Hemet City Manager Christopher Lopez
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MONTHLY
UPDATES FROM
CITY MANAGER
CHRISTOPHER LOPEZ
FEB. 2022
STATS
JANUARY 20, 2022 - FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Code Enforcement
Cases Created 79
Current Active Code Cases 790
Foreclosure Cases Monitored 131
Cases Brought into Compliance 73
Emails Recorded to Cases 70
Counter Visits 36
Phone Calls 237
Planning
Email Responses 1,026
Phone Calls 763
Counter Visits 135
Planning Inspections 30
Home Occupation Permits Issued 6
Plan Checks 73
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE
Redistricting
Service Improvements
Service Improvements
Traffic Stats
Youth Engagement
The Hemet Police Department selected the next ROCS Police Officer, Chris Maker, which
moves the Department towards its Strategic Plan goal of staffing the ROCS Team seven days
a week.
Employment Update
On a more positive note, on January 31, 2022 the Department welcomed Police Officers Jacob
Hobson and Rickey Furar to the Hemet Police Department family. Both officers will
immediately start an extensive Field Training Program. We wish them both a long, successful
career and look forward to their positive impact on our community.
A member of the Motor Bureau reassigned back to Patrol, however, his vacancy was filled by
Officer Cheyne Nicot. The Department is hopeful that Officer Nicot can be transferred to the
Motor Bureau in time to send him to Motor School in March.
POLICE DEPARTMENT
CONT.
Staff Highlight
Detective Reyes has done an outstanding job working with the Department’s Police Explorers by
educating them about vital law enforcement occupations outside of being a Police Officer.
During the week of February 6, 2022, Hemet PD Police Explorers received training from Property
and Evidence Technician Abbarno and Crime Scene Technician Murphy, which focused on
processing a crime scene from beginning to end (photographing, marking, and collecting
evidence) from Property & Evidence Technician Christine Abbarno and Crime Scene Technician
Aubrey Murphy. This week, Officer Alex Reynoso, with the Department’s Crisis Intervention
Team (CIT), presented on the CIT’s response to calls involving those suffering from mental
health issues. By the beginning of March, the Explorers will receive a presentation from the
Department’s Gang Task Force.
FI RE DEPARTMENT
Call Stats
In the month of February 2022, the Hemet Fire Department (HFD) had a total of 1,161 service
calls.
Since January 2022, HFD personnel attended meetings with other city fire leaders to resolve the
ambulance and staff shortage being experienced throughout Riverside County and our nation.
Retired Fire Chief Alan Patalano is working alongside Jack Hanson from AMR and Chief Sell to
mitigate the ambulance shortage.
Battalion Fire Chief James Majchrzak is collaborating with the Soboba Fire Department for a
joint training session in an upcoming engineering academy along with the potential opportunity
for the Soboba FD to purchase additional training props for our future training center.
Moreover, Battalion Fire Chief Kevin Kuhlman is working with Hemet Management Analyst
Veronica Allen on continuing Covid related impacts for reimbursement for PPE and other related
city costs.
Calls of Service
Employment Updates
The bulk of February was occupied with multiple interviews. Applicants were interviewed for the
Office Specialist I position on February 7, 2022; Emergency Services Coordinator position on
February 10, 2022; Firefighter/Paramedic position on February 16, 2022; and the Acting Battalion
Chief position on February 24, 2022.
A Battalion Chief workshop was prepared on February 14, 2022 for the initial live date on February
24, 2022 for prospective acting battalion chiefs and an exam was held on February 16, 2022 for the
Firefighter/Paramedic position.
Staff Support
crews have completed weed CIP# 5714, Kirby and Arbor Watermain replacements
abatement between and are coming close to completion.
surrounding the baseball
dragging infields/warning
compact, resetting the home The Tank 2 Recoat Project is about 35-40%
plate and pitcher’s rubber, completed. The contractor has blasted and is
and installing ground anchors currently coating the roof and top rung of the tank;
for the bases. the overflow piping modification has been
accomplished. The vendor is estimated to have
Staff is finalizing the request materials to be delivered this week to continue
for the proposal of the efforts in finishing the Tank 2 Recoat Project.
management services for the
Concrete Rehabilitation
of our town’s baseball fields The Hemet Public Works Department continues to
have gathered positive make improvements to vital and necessary
reactions from the public and infrastructures. Precision Concrete sent a quote for
athletic organizations. the first list of the concrete rehabilitation program.
They will repair 130 locations for $11,019.00,
estimating that work will commence in mid-March.
PUBLIC WORKS
CONT.
Accomplishments
The Facilities Maintenance crew repaired a
main sewer line leak at City Hall. The crew
cleared the clogged line and then repaired
the cast iron pipe with flex tape. The
janitorial contractor was called and cleaned
the carpet in both offices where the leaking
occurred.
AFTER
PUBLIC WORKS
CONT.
Staff Highlights
Planning Commission
At the February 1, 2022 Planning Commission meeting, the Planning
Commission approved the following items:
Our Code Compliance Division is happy to announce one of our new hires
for the Office Specialist III position, Karrie Castillo. Karrie came from the
Riverside County Adult Protection Services (APS) with great knowledge
and background of government services and customer service. She has
experience in providing customers the appropriate resources and dealing
with issues that greatly affect our elderly community. Karrie has an
established and expansive network of other agencies allowing her to
know where and who to contact for assistance and resources for specific
issues. Our Hemet team welcomes Karrie Castillo in joining the Code
Compliance Division staff to better serve our communities.
In addition, over the past year, Gaby Hernandez is tasked with greater
responsibility in the Planning Technician role. Her duties have included
analyzing land development applications, providing information and
assistance to developers, property owners and the public regarding laws,
regulations, standards, policies and procedures, and processing of
planning and zoning applications. Duties include building plan checks for
commercial tenant improvements, patios, swimming pools, accessory
dwelling units, new single-family homes, various ministerial permits, and
providing customer service to a high volume of front counter inquiries on
a weekly basis. Gaby is a vital team member to the Planning Division.
ENGINEERING
The Hemet Engineering Department collaborated with Public Works
to develop a new CIP for FY 21/22 through FY 22/23. A five-year CIP
is in the works for upcoming fiscal year.
COMPLETED PROJECTS
ONGOING PROJECTS
MCSWEENY FARMS
CIP # 5697 McSweeny – Phase 1 punch list:
CIP # 5698 McSweeny Parkway Crossing over Cactus Valley Wash:
CIP # 5699 State Street – Crossing over Cactus Valley Wash:
Reading Challenge
The Hemet Library has added a reading challenge for all
ages known as, ”For the Love of Reading!” Patrons can go
to Hemetca.gov/94/library and click on the link
hemetca.beanstack.com/reader365 to register with
Beanstack and log reading minutes. Once registered,
patrons will be ready for any reading challenges posted,
including our summer reading, “Read off the Beaten
Path!” Electronic badges are awarded for signing up and
for the number of minutes read.
Accomplishments
The Niche Academy public training has been added to the
Hemet Library website. Our new service through Niche
Academy offers library staff the opportunity to obtain
relevant library-related training in order to increase
performance effectiveness and expand library knowledge.
Library Statistics
Our 108,246 borrowers have conducted 278,750 searches
in the month of January and checked out 6,195 items.
Service Update
AARP volunteers are not currently assisting the
community with taxes at the Library this year but are
continuing to adjust their schedules and locations based
on the number of volunteers they have. Information for
Free tax assistance may be found on the Library’s
webpage at: https://ca-hemet2.civicplus.com/685/Tax-
Information.
LIBRARY
CONT.
Staff Highlight
The Library would like to commend Letitia Bowles for setting up our first readers’
challenge, “For the Love of Reading!” Letitia created a widget for the Library’s home
page for Niche Academy which you can find under the Library Tutorials tab. These
tutorials are valuable to our community and staff as well as topics include how to use
the various google tools, our library databases and Microsoft tools such as Excel,
Word and Teams.
Library Associate I Andrea Jacomet has been doing a great job in maintaining and
updating our library social media pages from posting information regarding free tax
locations, to posting relevant information regarding the current wave of book banning.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
The Information Technology Division (IT) continues to work on help requests and various
projects throughout the City. Q&A responses for our IT firewall RFP were released this
week along with a draft review of our IT server and storage replacement RFP underway.
Rollout dates for our citywide conversion of department file storage to Microsoft Teams
were finalized during the week of February 3, 2022. Lastly, the redeployment of our Public
Library systems and deployment of Canon UniFlow to improve our printing and scanning
capabilities continue to make good progress.
IT STATS
Grants
After the ARPA SLFRF presentation at the January 11, 2022 City
Council Meeting. Staff moved forward with the Council’s decision
to accept the funding and elected ‘standard allowance’.
Management Analyst Veronica Allen submitted the first ARPA
SLFRF quarterly Project and Expenditure report into the
Treasury’s reporting system on January 31, 2022. In collaboration
with the Public Works Department, Public Works submitted the
SB1383 Education and Outreach – CalRecycle Grant application
on February 1, 2022.
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