Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District board of directors meets today (September 20, 2023) at 4 p.m.; while Joshua Tree’s Joshua Basin Water District’s regular meeting begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. At Hi-Desert Water District the board is expected to approve several resolutions, among them is a healthy salary increase for the general manager including a 2.5 percent merit increase and a 4.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment for a total annual salary of just over $263,000. The public is welcome to…

At tonight’s (Sept. 12, 2023) 6 p.m. meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency’s directors, the board will review and agency’s code of conduct. Tonight, directors are expected to authorize bad debt write-off for fiscal 2023-24 of just $1,500 which is all that remains after the rest was collected through property tax liens.  In other business, the board will consider a resolution establishing the agency’s banking policy, and an agreement for as-needed engineering services The public may…

At Hi-Desert Water District the board is expected to provide staff direction in connection with state and federal advocacy services. Also today, the board will consider the district’s water reserve policy. Today’s meeting is at the district office on the highway at Inca Trial. The public is welcome to attend. And down the highway at Joshua Basin Water District directors will consider the district's utility costs and look at their low-income household water assistance program. As always,…