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…

At tonight’s (October 10, 2023) 6 p.m. meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency’s directors, the board will make its annual review of the agency’s basic facilities charge. If the board accepts the staff recommendation, they will vote to agendize for the November 14 meeting a resolution adding a roughly three-and-a-half percent increase to the Basic Facilities Charge. The public may attend in person at the agency’s board meeting office under the old water tower on Cherokee Trail in…

Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District board of directors meets today (October 4, 2023) at 4 p.m. Joshua Tree’s Joshua Basin Water District’s regular 5:30 p.m. meeting has been canceled; however, that board will hold a training workshop at 9 o’clock this morning. Among agenda items at the Hi-Desert Water District, the board will consider contracting an owner's representative for the next phase of the sewer collection project as well as moving ahead on as-needed in-house engineering…