Mike Lipsitz, Author at Z107.7 FM Joshua Tree

Water quality update at Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency meeting tonight

December 12, 2023

Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency meeting agenda for Oct. 11

At tonight’s (Dec. 12, 2023) 6 p.m. meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency’s board, the agenda is light but important. Near the top of tonight’s meeting, directors will hear a water quality update with a focus on aptly named “forever chemicals.” A discussion will follow this informational presentation. The only action item on tonight’s agenda is the expected board authorization for staff use of credit cards and the setting of guidelines for use of those cards. The public is welcome to…

Wednesday Water Round-Up for 12/6

by Mike Lipsitz

December 6, 2023

Wednesday Water Roundup – regular meeting for JBWD, Hi-Desert

Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District board of directors meets today (Dec. 6, 2023) at 4 p.m. While down the highway in Joshua Tree, the Joshua Basin Water District’s regular meeting begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. The focus of today’s meeting at the Hi-Desert Water District will be the election of a new board president, vice president, and secretary. Following the vote, the new officers will take the oath of office and immediately assume their new positions. Also tonight, directors will approve,…

SB County BOS meeting to go over Wonder Valley, Pipes Canyon and Pioneertown road projects

by Mike Lipsitz

December 4, 2023

Number of unhoused in Morongo Basin rises; County reserves $72 million to fight it

County supervisors are expected to declare a 2012 John Deere Motor Grader valued between $80,000 and $110,000, as surplus and send it to auction. Proceeds of the sale will go to the Wonder Valley Operating Fund to help pay for a new road grader. In other business, supervisors will consider giving up the county’s right-of-way on Matilla Road and others in the Pipes Canyon area about 12 miles west of Pioneertown that are blocked by the mountainous terrain along the easterly side of the San…

Tires and other bulky waste cleanup event this Saturday in Landers

by Mike Lipsitz

November 30, 2023

Tires and other bulky waste cleanup event this Saturday in Landers

It may first appear as a single tire — or more often in stacks of two, three or four tires — hastily dumped along rural roads and private properties in the dead of night. When law-abiding folks replace tires, they leave the old ones with the tire shop for a small fee, usually a couple dollars. The Landers landfill accepts tires for about $5.25 each, but a great number of car and truck tires are illegally discarded in our communities. This Saturday, December 2, County Code Enforcement and the…

Wednesday Water Round-Up for 11/15

by Mike Lipsitz

November 15, 2023

Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District board of directors meets today (Nov. 15, 2023) at 4 p.m. While down the highway in Joshua Tree, the Joshua Basin Water District’s regular meeting begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. The lone focus at today’s meeting at the Hi-Desert Water District is a strategic planning workshop to gather input from all relevant sources in order to develop the district’s strategic goals and priorities for the next five years. The meeting takes place at the district office on the…

JBWD’s Low-Income Household Water Assistance (LIHWAP) canceled

by Mike Lipsitz

November 15, 2023

Joshua Basin Water District gives updates on Sunday’s water main break

The Joshua Basin Water District’s popular Low Income Household Water Assistance Program, or LIHWAP, was abruptly canceled yesterday. Joshua Basin Water District management learned late yesterday that program funding, which has been funneled through the county, has been exhausted and applications can no longer be considered. The district’s planned Low Income Household Water Assistance Program scheduled for tomorrow (Nov. 16, 2023) has also been canceled. Low-income ratepayers in the Joshua Basin…

Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency BOD meets tonight (11/14)

by Mike Lipsitz

November 14, 2023

At tonight’s (Nov. 14, 2023) 6 p.m. meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency’s directors, the board will hear the fiscal audit report and consider an increase in the basic facilities charges. Among the many items in tonight’s agenda, the board is expected to hear the fiscal 2022-2023 audit report as well as vote to add a roughly three-and-a-half percent increase to the basic facilities water charges. The public may attend in person at the agency’s board meeting office under the old water…

Concerns of ‘eco-dome glamping campground’ discussed at Landers town hall last night

by Mike Lipsitz

October 31, 2023

In Landers last night, about 50 people turned out for a town hall meeting on a proposed “eco dome glamping campground” that would neighbor Landers' historic Integratron. The proposed project consists of six geodesic domes each with an outdoor deck and hot tub. Each dome would accommodate six guests and two dogs. A separate communal dome, swimming pool, bocce court, and horseshoe pit would also be squeezed onto the two-and-a-half-acre site. Community concerns raised at the meeting included…

Future of $172-per-parcel Fire Protection District 5 tax in hands of voters

by Mike Lipsitz

October 25, 2023

When the presidential primary election rolls around in March 2024, voters in the sprawling 19,000-square-mile Fire Protection District 5 will once again have an opportunity to reject the unpopular FP-5 Fire Tax, currently set at $172 per parcel. Voters chose to repeal the controversial FP-5 Fire Tax on a ballot measure in 2022, but the county successfully overturned the will of the public in the courts. The tax in question generates $46.5 million for San Bernardino County Fire; 19 percent of the…

County Supervisors to decide on Fire Protection $172-per-parcel tax

by Mike Lipsitz

October 23, 2023

Among the many agenda items to be considered at tomorrow’s (October 24, 2023) 10 o’clock county supervisor meeting in San Bernardino, the board will once again have an opportunity to repeal the unpopular Fire Protection District 5 special tax or hand that decision over to voters. Thanks to a grassroots signature-collecting effort recently certified as valid by the registrar of voters county supervisors must now choose the path forward from among a limited number of options. Specifically, they…

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