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Can You Change Your Address to Menifee Yet? I just phoned
the Sun City Post Office this morning, and asked if there has been any discussion on allowing residents to switch their address
from Sun City, Quail Valley, Romoland, over to Menifee.
The answer is that there hasn't been any discussion.
They still advise everyone to continue using your existing community name, and don't switch over to using Menifee
yet.
Even though they advise not using Menifee yet, I tend to believe you can still do it as long you have the
zip code on there. But I won't guarantee there won't be any screw ups.
Menifee City Council Meeting - Sep 10, 2008
Riverside County Sheriff's Presentation
Commander Jim Mcilvane of the Perris Substation
gave a presentation of their proposed service to Menifee. It was a long presentation, so to make a long story short, here's
the big stuff...
- Total cost $7,267,714 for 2008-2009. However, he's
suggesting a higher price of $7,464,415 which includes a couple of "Community Service Officers". These CSOs are
sworn officers that handle all the petty stuff so that armed deputies can spend more time doing the big stuff.
- Suggesting 29 sworn deputies to patrol all of Menifee, as well as 4 investigators, and 2 "CSA Deputies",
which will be dedicated to Quail Valley. There's also about another 11 support staff and commanders.
- 31 patrol cars, and 4 unmarked cars
He went on to talk about
what the Sheriff has done already for Menifee Valley. Apparently, crime in Menifee Valley is down about 27% since the beginning
of this year, and that's based on their new "zone policing" system. This has the valley divided up into four
zones, and each zone is further broken down into "beats". Each beat is staffed by an officer dedicated to that beat,
so that he/she knows the people in that area, and thereby knows that area pretty intimately.
He also stated the
Department's average response time to calls. Stage 1 calls (which are life threatening calls), have an average response
time of 7.7 minutes. Stage 2 (emergency calls but not life threatening), 11.5 minutes. Stage 3 calls ( non-emergency calls),
15.7 minutes. He said that strictly within Menifee Valley, the Stage 1 and Stage 2 calls had slightly faster response times.
However, the Stage 3 calls were 32 minutes. He didn't say what constitutes a "response". But I sense that for
Stage 3, it includes someone returning your call to take down the particulars, considering it's not an emergency.
Councilman John Denver specifically asked Mcilvane if this proposed service would now have deputies writing traffic tickets
in Sun City. He explained that it's been "common knowledge" that deputies right now never write traffic tickets
in Sun City. Mcilvane said that they would indeed write traffic tickets in Sun City. He went on to explain that under the
current service, the Sheriff defers all traffic patrols to the CHP. But now that we're a city, the CHP would largely restrict
their patrols to the I-215. Councilman Twyman asked Mcilvane if us incorporating as a city is actually going to save the CHP
some money. Mcilvane was rather perplexed by the question. I think it was meant as humor, but it seemed to go over like a
lead balloon, or Mcilvane is just too intense of a guy.
Nothing was said about the MSJC Police. I suspect they'll
still continue their patrols all over the Menifee Valley, instead of sticking to the campus.
Robert Shorb - complained about the posted speed limits in Sun City, particularly around Valley Blvd
and Cherry Hills Blvd. Sounds like the backyard of his property sits on Valley Blvd. He invited council members to have breakfast
with him in his backyard patio just to hear the roar of vehicles. I think the speed limit there is fine, it's just not
being enforced.
Next Meeting
Even though the city council talked about doing these meetings every other
week, it sounds like the next meeting is next Wednesday, Sept 17, at the same location, same time.
They'll
be going over the budget, the proposed Sheriff's contract, and talking about steps to adopting the official city seal.
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CONGRATULATIONS MENIFEE... YOU'RE A BIG KID
NOW!
The public has been heard and the tallies
are still being counted and Measure F has a very strong showing of passing to make Menifee it's own City, With the simple
city name of MENIFEE.
(Darn! We were hoping for Menifee Valley... hence our wonderful site's name)
411MenifeeValley.com welcomes
with open arms the valley's of Qual Valley, Romoland and as always, Sun City, to share our wonderful city and hope that
we can all work together to make this new Cityhood a wonderful plan for ALL of us.
We strongly believe only
good can come from this decision. It may take some time, but good will happen. Let's all just stay involved in our new
city and fix what needs to be fixed, keep what needs to be kept, improve what needs to be improved and grow together as a
community.
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