At tonight’s special (June 27, 2023) 6 p.m. meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency’s board, directors will decide what to do about services where the actual cost of labor and materials exceeds what the agency charges. Yes, tonight the board will almost certainly approve changes to certain fees, charges, and deposits; also tonight, the board is expected to authorize a new organizational chart creating two new job positions including assistant general manager and water distribution…

On the Hi-Desert Water District agenda, the board is expected to adopt the fiscal 2023-24 water and wastewater annual budgets and as well as set the annual appropriation limit. That meeting takes place at the district office on the highway at Inca Trail. On down the highway on Chollita Road in Joshua Tree, the Joshua Basin Water District board will hear a third-quarter financial report and hold a legally required public hearing on standby charges although no increase is up for consideration. As…

Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District board of directors meets at 4 p.m. today (June 7, 2023), while Joshua Tree’s Joshua Basin Water District’s regular meeting gets underway at 5:30 p.m. sharp. On the Hi-Desert Water District agenda, the Mojave Water Agency will present its 2023 Annual Imported Water Operations Plan. Also, staff will present the proposed Water and Wastewater Budget for fiscal 2023-2024 for direction and possible adoption. Those items will be followed by a closed-session…

At tomorrow’s (May 23, 2023) 10 a.m. meeting of the county supervisors in San Bernardino, our Morongo Basin will significantly benefit from a handful of the more than one hundred actions on the agenda. On supervisor’s consent calendar a resolution to approve $33,000 for a full-time probation officer in our school district for the fiscal year. The PO will provide intervention and prevention services for problems that reach beyond the school setting. Their efforts often result in reduced student…