An ambitious agenda is on tap tonight (October 16, 2024) for Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District and down the highway in Joshua Tree the agenda is much the same. The meeting in Yucca Valley begins promptly at 4:30 p.m. while the gavel in Joshua Tree comes down an hour later at 5:30.
Among other items in today's business at the Hi-Desert Water District, directors will hear an update on the expanded use loan program for eligible properties in the Phase 1 sewer program. It looks like those who enrolled in the program and received funds to help pay for their connections to the sewer line, and who have begun repaying those funds with their property taxes will be getting some of that funding reclassified from loans to grants with some money back. Today’s meeting takes place…
On last Friday’s Up Close Show, host Gary Daigneault mediated a forum with four candidates for Joshua Basin Water District’s board of directors. Joining Gary were Division 3 incumbent Jane Jarlsberg and her opponent Ryan Cherlin. And in the water district’s Division 5 incumbent Stacy Doolittle is running opposite challenger Debra Truncale. Joshua Basin Water District Division 3 incumbent Jane Jarlsberg was drawn to Morongo Basin by the lure of affordable housing, that was in 2017. She…
In San Bernardino tomorrow (September 24, 2024) County Supervisors hold their regular twice-monthly meeting at 10 o’clock. Tomorrow’s agenda carries one item of particular interest to anyone who drives Pioneertown Road between the community of the same name and Yucca Valley.
Your Wednesday Water Round-Up is here with agendas and meeting instructions for water meetings around the hi-desert.
Some 175 Yucca Valley properties continue to discharge wastewater on site in violation of the Regional Water Quality Control Board’s septic discharge prohibition. At a hearing in Palm Desert Tuesday, that board escalated enforcement efforts by issuing cease-and-desist orders to three of the noncompliant property owners. The three properties in question, (located in the 6400 block of Linda Lee Drive, the 58700 block of Natoma Trail, and the 6400 block of Ronald Drive) all in phase I of the Yucca…
In San Bernardino, tomorrow (September 10, 2024) County Supervisors hold their regular twice-monthly 10 o’clock meeting. Tomorrow’s agenda calls for the signing of a mutual aid agreement that is expected to enhance firefighting capabilities throughout our huge county. County Supervisors tomorrow are expected to approve a five-year Cooperative Fire Protection Agreement between the County Fire Protection District, the Bureau of Land Management, Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave…
Directors at Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District are expected to dispatch an ambitious agenda at today’s (September 4, 2024) regular 4 o’clock meeting. While Joshua Tree’s Joshua Basin Water District is looking at an uncharacteristically light agenda at today’s 5:30 p.m. meeting. Pending approval from legal counsel, directors at the Hi-Desert Water District are expected to sign a loan/grant agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board for the combined Phase II and III Sewer…
Last week County Supervisors approved an updated and revised contract with Burrtec Solid Waste Management. The new contract adds roughly 500 households from Morongo Basin’s unincorporated areas to the more than 7,000 households in Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms that already receive the service. All households in the mandatory service areas must separate organic food and garden waste from recyclables and non-recyclable, non-organic trash. The reality of the situation is that the County really…
Directors at the Joshua Basin Water District convene for a special workshop meeting tomorrow morning (August 27, 2024). Tomorrow’s 9 a.m. meeting is a strategic planning workshop facilitated by an outside consultant. The workshop is for informational purposes only; no action is to be taken. The public is welcome to attend at the district offices on Chollita Road in Joshua Tree.
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