Morongo Unified School District Board of Trustees meet Tuesday (9/2) after delaying previous meeting due to floods

The Morongo Unified School District Board of Trustees meets for their first meeting of the 2025-26 school year Tuesday (September 2). Their regularly scheduled meeting was postponed from last week after the district experienced flooding in Twentynine Palms.

Tonight, they will meet at at Joshua Tree Elementary at 6:00 p.m.

For the meeting’s agenda, Friendly Hills Elementary will be recognized as a 2025 California Distinguished School, a component of the California Department of Education recognizing schools that demonstrate exemplary achievements. There will be policy updates to sex discrimination and sex-based harassment, as well as before/after school programs. Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Stacy Smalling will give recommendations for certificated and classified personnel. Various donations and grants will be announced, including a $3500 grant from Mojave Water Agency towards Yucca Valley Elementary’s Outdoor Classroom Project.

There will be authorization for two architectural services at Twentynine Palms Junior High for a relocatable restroom and new administration building. As Davis Daniels replaces Sharon Flores for Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the County Form 6 addressing delegation/removal of authority and update the official custodian of the revolving cash fund from Flores to Daniels. 

Gabriel Hart

Gabriel Hart

Gabriel Hart is an author and journalist from Morongo Valley, CA. He was a finalist for the 2024 Golden Mic Awards for his continuous reporting on the Morongo Valley Community Services District. His punk-noir novel On High at Red Tide is out now from Pig Roast Publishing, and he's the editor-in-chief/publisher of Beyond the Last Estate, a print-only magazine featuring "creative reporting on contemporary literature."