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R V C A Membership Update

Inflation continues to erode To cover the increases in costs while maintaining the same
amount of coverage, the RVCA Board approved raising the
our Security Patrol hours. PRV/RVCA combined membership price from $525 to $600
effective November 1, 2024. At this level, your membership
There are several factors driving our Protect Rio Vista Patrol costs. will fund just under 8.5 hours of patrol, a level we have tried
The first is keeping up with the increases per the FLPD contract to maintain.
with the city. The second is that the department is understaffed, The board trusts that you will continue to see the value the
and officers have no problem working as much overtime as they patrol brings to the neighborhood and help us maintain the
want so we have had to offer a premium to ensure that we can level of coverage we have today. Our current PRV membership
get enough officers to maintain our coverage. The final factor is level supports 9 hours per day, 365 days per year. We need
that the city is changing the way details will be managed per the all current members to renew to maintain the current level of
collective bargaining agreement.
coverage. We encourage you to talk to your neighbors about
Beginning next year, the department will take on responsibility supporting the patrol so we can add even more hours to
for tracking hours worked and will pay the officers directly. the schedule. I’m sure there will be some bumps in the road
The city will then bill us for the hours worked. To cover the cost as we make this transition. Please feel free to contact me at
of administering the payments and associated deductions, the treasurer@riovistaonline.com or 954-494-5618 if you run into
city will charge us more than what we are currently paying any problems or have any questions.
per hour. At this writing we do not have an exact increase
amount but think it will be about $8 an hour. We will continue Thank-you for your continued support of RVCA and PRV.
to have Sgt. Wright as our detail coordinator to schedule the Mark Snead
officers as needed in the neighborhood. Treasurer, RVCA Board

As we continue to attempt to improve communications in the community regarding crime and the
great work of the Protect Rio Vista Patrol, we will summarize the past two months of security logs in
each issue of RIO VISTA. In the past, only the most recent logs were included and often only a
fraction of them due to space constraints. As always, the full logs can be accessed on our website at
www.riovistaonline.com/about-us/protect-rio-vista-program. We hope you will find this useful.

Sunday, September 1st, 2024 Monday, September 2nd, 2024
1420: High visibility south end to assist with a shooting 1659: Received call from LYC general manager in reference
at 12th and Miami Rd. Made sure no subjects or vehicles to a theft of the security guards backpack; turned out to be
came into the neighborhood. (No danger to Rio Vista). Area an attempted auto burglary and felony theft. Good video of
secured, continued patrols. suspect and vehicle, FLPD case # 24-154069

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