After appointing 20 Yucca Valley students to the town’s Youth Commission, the Yucca Valley Town Council agreed to add two more students as alternates during their meeting last night. Morongo Unified School District Superintendent Tom Baumgarten gave the council an update on projects in the school district and a preview of the Battle of the Bosses, the half-time entertainment during the 49th annual Battle of the Bell football game, coming up November 4 between Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms High Schools. Managing editor Tami Roleff says council members also heard good news about crime trends in Yucca Valley…
Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Captain Jeff Joling had good news for Yucca Valley residents at last night’s meeting of the Yucca Valley Town Council. Joling gave the town council an update on crime trends in the third quarter of the fiscal year, compared to last year. Burglaries are down 44 percent compared to the same time last year. While Yucca Valley had one homicide this quarter, compared to 0 last year, other violent crimes, such as rape, robbery, arson, and assaults are down, some by as much as 66 percent. Joling also dismissed fears about evil clowns in the Morongo Basin. “There have not been any incidents in the entire Morongo Basin, no assault, no one dressed up as a clown.”
And in closed session, the town council gave the town manager Curtis Yakimow an outstanding performance review and agreed to extend his contract, which expires in June. An ad hoc committee will develop a contract extension and bring it to the town council within the next 30 days.
Sheriff’s Captain Jeff Joling discusses crime trends in Yucca Valley.
Yucca Valley students pose with Yucca Valley Mayor Bob Leone after being appointed as the town’s youth commissioners.
