Our Morongo Basin shows up multiple times on the agenda at tomorrow’s 10 a.m. meeting of county supervisors in San Bernardino. Reporter Mike Lipsitz has the highlights…
In what might best be described as rubbing salt in the wound, supervisors will approve a three percent increase in the new Fire Protection Zone FP-5 special per parcel tax from this year’s $157 to $162. The higher charge will show up on next year’s property tax bills. Supervisors are also expected to allocate $900,000 to Hi-Desert Medical Center to extend a contract for outpatient mental health services through June 2020; approve a $213,000 forgivable loan to cover startup costs associated with homeless bridge housing on Center Street in Joshua Tree; adopt a resolution establishing a 40 mile per hour speed zone on Sunset Road from Alta Loma Drive north to the highway in Joshua Tree—down from 55 miles per hour. Supervisors are also expected to approve the appointment of Michel Cicero to the Morongo Basin Municipal Advisory Council representing Landers.
Tomorrow’s meeting streams online and to the first-floor teleconferencing room in the County Government Center on White Feather Road in Joshua Tree where public comment may be made via live video link.
