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…

In San Bernardino, tomorrow (August 20, 2024) County Supervisors hold their regular twice-monthly meeting at 10 o’clock.  Tomorrow’s agenda holds good news for Big Morongo Canyon Preserve and maybe not such good news for the 7,700 unincorporated area residents who are about to be added to Burrtec’s mandatory waste collection routes and all the charges and special sorting rules that it requires. Tomorrow’s consent calendar includes just over $1 million for repair and replacement of the…

A notice taped to the entrance of the County’s Bob Burke Government Center in Joshua Tree announced, “… this site is no longer available as a location to provide in person comments to the board.” And so ended a 10-year-run as a space where the public could participate remotely in the board of supervisors meetings without having to travel to the county seat in San Bernardino. The above notice was posted at the entrance to the Bob Burke Government Center shortly before the last meeting of the…