Local businesses found out you win some and you lose some at last night’s Yucca Valley Town Council meeting. Managing editor Tami Roleff was at that meeting and files this report…
It was a win and a loss for two local area businesses, when the Yucca Valley Town Council awarded contracts at its meeting last night for landscaping and an HVAC system. Despite coming in about $2800 higher than the lowest bid from an Irwindale landscaper, the town council awarded the town’s landscaping contract to Desert Green Landscape because it was a Yucca Valley business. The council was advised that contracting out the landscaping maintenance of medians, instead of using part-time town employees, would save the town about $25,000. Council members were inclined to award a contract for replacing the town’s obsolete HVAC system to Hi-Desert Air of Yucca Valley over Honeywell— which was about $500 more—but was persuaded to award the contract to Honeywell when they learned that Honeywell is under contract to maintain the system, and has been maintaining the system since 1994. The council spent some time discussing the town’s ordinance on cell phone towers, and decided that the current ordinance was satisfactory without making any changes.
