Cost of living adjustments and a real estate purchase will be in front of the board at tonight’s (April 9, 2024) 6 p.m. meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency’s Board of Directors. Directors at Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency will consider authorizing a 3.2 percent cost‐of‐living adjustment for employees and the general manager beginning at the start of the fiscal year this July. And in a related matter directors will convene a public hearing in connection with the same…

Directors at Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District meet in regular session at 4 o’clock today (April 3, 2024). And on down the road in Joshua Tree, the Joshua Basin Water District’s regular meeting begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. At the Hi-Desert Water District directors will embark on a busy agenda covering next steps following the rate study, a look at ten-year projections for labor costs, and a request for proposals in the phase II sewer build. Today’s meeting takes place at the district…

Among the many agenda items to be considered at tomorrow’s (March 26, 2024) 10 o’clock meeting of county supervisors in San Bernardino, several items are of special relevance to our Morongo Basin. Supervisors are expected to approve $175,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funding for remodel of the Wonder Valley Community Center kitchen and bathrooms. The Community Center is operated and maintained by the County Department of Public Works - Special Districts. The department says the…

Directors at Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District meet in regular session at 4 o’clock today (March 20, 2024). And on down the road in Joshua Tree, the Joshua Basin Water District’s regular meeting begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. At the Hi-Desert Water District directors will hear an information only presentation on the district’s rate study. Today’s meeting takes place at the district office on the highway at Inca Trail. And at the Joshua Basin Water District directors are expected to give…

Service contracts and the cost of new water meter installations will be put before the board at tonight’s (March 12, 2024) 6 p.m. meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency. Directors at Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency will consider engineering and land survey service contracts associated with an emergency water supply intertie with Hi‐Desert Water District. Grants are expected to provide a good deal of the funding. Also tonight, directors are expected to set the installation cost for a…