If all goes as expected, tomorrow’s decision by the county board of supervisors will put into motion the first steps required for construction of a 10-bed crisis residential treatment facility in Joshua Tree. It will be the only facility of its kind in the Morongo Basin. Reporter Mike Lipsitz has more …
At tomorrow’s 10 a.m. meeting of county supervisors in San Bernardino, the board is expected to approve $55,000 for the purchase of 2.75 acres on the south side of Twentynine Palms Highway between Torres Avenue and Sunny Vista Road in Joshua Tree. Plans call for the County to sink another $6 million into the site which, when complete, will be the Basin’s only Crisis Residential Treatment Facility; part of the Department of Behavioral Health. Following tomorrow’s vote, the county will open up the bidding process. The hope is to award the construction contract sometime in February.
