The County Registrar of Voters extended the deadline last Wednesday, August 15, to file papers to run for office in four agencies in the Morongo Basin: Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency; Morongo Valley Community Services District; Hi-Desert Memorial Healthcare District; and the Yucca Valley Airport District. The deadline was extended because an incumbent in office did not file to run for re-election. No new candidates filed papers to run in any of these offices.
Here is the list of the candidates running for local office:
Copper Mountain Community College District (2 seats available)
Ronald Alvin Stewart
Eva Kinsman – Incumbent
Liz Meyer – Incumbent
Yucca Valley Airport District (3 available)
Bob Dunn – Incumbent
Walter Hoffman – Incumbent
Morongo Unified School District (1 seat in each district)
Area 4:
Hilary Slotta– Incumbent
Forrest McCracken
Area 5:
Chris Proudfoot– Incumbent
Jennifer Decker
Area 1: short term
Kerri Condley
Donna Munoz
Morongo Valley Community Services District (3 seats available)
Gayle Swarat – Incumbent
Hi-Desert Memorial Healthcare District (2 seats available)
Misty Evans
Marge Doyle– Incumbent
Beverly Scott
Hi-Desert Water District (3 seats available)
Sheldon Hough – Incumbent
Dan Munsey – Incumbent
Roger Mayes – Incumbent
Joshua Basin Water District (2 Seats Available)
Mike Reynolds
Al Marquez
Paul F. Coate
Rebecca Unger – Incumbent
Tom Floen – Incumbent
Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency (3 Seats Available)
Judy K. Corl-Lorono – Incumbent
John R. Burkhart
John Skerbelis
David W. Chapman
Jo Marie Mckenzie
Yucca Valley (1 seat in each district)
District 1
James Schooler
Edmund Shadman
District 3
Merl Abel–Incumbent
Jo Ann Bollen
District 5
Rick Denison–Incumbent
Twentynine Palms (1 seat in each district)
District 3
Daniel L. Mintz – Incumbent
District 4
John E. Cole – Incumbent
Karmolette O’Gilvie
District 5
McArthur Wright- Incumbent
Cora Heiser – District 5
