When the County Board of Supervisors meets tomorrow in San Bernardino, two items of local interest will be up for consideration. They include a
proposed auction of tax-defaulted properties, and a plan to provide security at next month’s King of the Hammers off-road event in Johnson Valley. Here is reporter Mike Lipsitz with more…
Each year the county holds a public auction of tax-defaulted properties — those where property taxes have not been paid in five years or more.
Supervisors are expected to approve a long list of properties, including some in our Morongo Basin, that will go to auction May 12. In other
business, the board will likely approve a five-year agreement to preposition county fire personnel and equipment throughout the week-long King of the Hammers off-road mega-event held in Johnson Valley each February. This year’s event kicks off February 2 with the opening of “Hammertown,” the
pop-up off-road expo, and continue through the King of the Hammers main-event race February 9. Last year’s race drew and estimated 40,000 spectators.
Tomorrow’s 10 a.m. 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.
