LISTEN TO THIS STORY HERE: This afternoon in Yucca Valley, directors at the Hi-Desert Water District have a busy agenda planned for the water agency’s regularly scheduled 4 p.m. meeting (Wednesday, July 20, 2022). While in Joshua Tree, the Joshua Basin Water District agenda is lite, but the mood should still be elevated following last week’s long-awaited reopening of well 14. That meeting begins at 5:30 p.m. Following the dispatch of routine items on the consent agenda, directors at the…

At today’s 10 a.m. meeting of county supervisors in San Bernardino, a handful of items relevant to our Morongo Basin are on the consent calendar and as such, approvals are all but certain. One such item is the extension of county contracts to provide law enforcement service for Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms. Under the amended contracts Yucca Valley will pay $5.9 million and Twentynine Palms will pay $4.5 million for service through next June. Supervisors will release county hold on some…