Tonight looks to be a busy one at the Joshua Basin Water District. In place of the regular 6:30 p.m. board meeting a special meeting will come to order at 5 p.m. today. Reporter Mike Lipsitz tells us what’s afoot…
At the top of the agenda are interviews of four candidates for the board seat left vacant last month by the death of Mickey Luckman. Following the public interviews, the board is expected to appoint the new director by majority vote. The applicants are Gayle Austin, Wesley Bausmith, Paul Coate, and Thomas Floen.
Next, the board is expected to name new interim General Manager Mark Ban as secretary of the district. This is Ban’s first board meeting since the retirement last month his predecessor Curt Sauer. The balance of tonight’s meeting is basically district housekeeping and including a public hearing to dissolve two long-retired improvement districts, a resolution to establish one minor rule change and fee and to eliminate another, and approval of a contact with an outside business to provide employment and labor counsel to the district. Those items and others all happen at the district offices on Chollita Road in Joshua Tree.
