The County Registrar of Voters extended the deadline to Wednesday, August 12, 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.
Several agencies have uncontested races.
Twentynine Palms City Council District 1: Steve Bilderain.
Morongo Unified School District, District 3: Kerri Condley.
Hi-Desert Water District: Bob Stadum and Scot McKone
Jim Byerrum (short term).
Joshua Basin Water District: Jane Jarlsberg and Tom Floen.
Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency: Michael McBride and Megan Close-Dees.
Contested races:
Yucca Valley Town Council District 2: Jeff Drozd, David Simmons.
District 4: Robert Lombardo, Jeff Brady, Myra Kennedy, Travis Puglisi.
Twentynine Palms City Council, District 2: Joel Klink, Jim Krushat.
Copper Mountain College: Mary Lombardo, Dick Rogers, Greg Gilbert, Tyler “Thomas” Short, and Supinda Sirihekaphong.
Morongo Unified School District District 1: Ashley Aguilar, Aaron Kyle, and Robert Hamilton.
District 2: Cathy Nelson and Patrick Crow.
Morongo Valley Community Service District: Johnny Tolbert, Susan Lefevre, Ivan K. Murray, and Christina Gorke.
Hi-Desert Memorial Healthcare District: Dianne Markle-Greenhouse, Dale Mondary, Denise Cullum, and Gregory Brown.
Joshua Basin Water District, District 5: Paul Franklin Coate, Stacy Doolitte, and Robert Johnson.
County of San Bernardino Board of Education, Area E: Karalee Hargrove,
Alise Clouser, David Raley, and Andrea DeLeon
