Coming up on tonight’s agenda of the Hi-Desert Water District Board of Directors, another contract for the wastewater treatment facility, purchase of a vehicle, directors’ compensation, and lobbying services. Managing editor Tami Roleff fills in the details…
The Board of Directors of the Hi-Desert Water District will be presented at its meeting tonight with a $30 million contract to approve for the wastewater treatment facility. The plans for the sewer project are 70 percent complete now, and the district expects construction of the sewer plant to be started this October and completed by April 2019. Next, the board will be asked to approve the purchase of a new 4-wheel drive Chevy truck for nearly $31,000. Next up, the directors will decide whether to increase their compensation, which is currently $125 per meeting. Directors will then be asked to approve a contract with a lobbyist firm for $3,500 per month. And finally, the board will authorize an outside firm to conduct a water rate study. The district’s water rates were last increased in 2011. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in district offices at Inca Trail and Highway 62 in Yucca Valley.
Pills, pickups, and a hazard mitigation plan are all on the agenda at tonight’s water board meeting in Twentynine Palms. Reporter Mike Lipsitz fills us in…
Highlights of action items to be taken up at tonight’s meeting of the Twentynine Palms Water District include the expected approval of a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan; award of a bid for a new Ford F150 pickup; and a discussion of pharmaceutical disposal. Also tonight, the board is expected to review and approve an outside consultant determination that the Well 11 replacement project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Those items and others are in addition to routine items on the consent agenda. Tonight’s meeting begins at 6 p.m. at the District Office on the south side of Hatch Road in Twentynine Palms.
HI-DESERT AND TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER BOARDS MEET TONIGHT
