County Sheriff releases statement regarding MVCSD meeting cancellation

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This week’s regularly scheduled meeting of the Morongo Valley Community Services District was cancelled on Friday (May 12) due to lack of quorum, the second monthly meeting in a row to be cancelled.

A statement given by MVCSD’s acting President James Whitney concerning the cancellation of this Wednesday’s (May 17) regular board meeting due to Whitney and Fire Commissioner Emory’s absence, where Whitney stated, “I have been advised not attend the non-mandatory, optional May 17 meeting by a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy and several other county officials.”

Z107.7 contacted San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Sergeant John Scalise to confirm.

Sgt. Scalise said, “…the position of the Morongo Basin Station and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, is to NOT make any type of recommendation of attendance of a meeting, for or against, to the public, specifically when it involves the operation of local government.”

While in his statement Whitney cited police reports he’s made for acts of vandalism and threats of violence toward him and Emory, Scalise could not confirm or deny these filed reports, but did confirm the Sheriff’s department has recently responded to calls of vandalism in Morongo Valley.