The Town of Yucca Valley said good-bye to two long-time public servants last night. In the first of a two-part report, managing editor Tami Roleff says a full house was at the meeting to thank Laurine Silver and George Huntington for their decades of service. Tomorrow, in part two, we’ll hear about the costs for renovating the former PFF Bank building into a new library…
Tuesday night was a time to say good-bye to two faithful public servants. After more than 24 years of service, Laurine Silver resigned from the Yucca Valley Parks and Rec commission, as she is moving out of the area. And then the town said good-bye to council member George Huntington, who served eight years on the town council, and 14 years on the planning commission. Congressman Paul Cook of Yucca Valley presented Huntington with a flag flown over the U.S. Capitol, and Huntington also received accolades from the State Senate, State Assembly, county supervisors, the Hi-Desert Water District, the city of Twentynine Palms, and, of course, from the Town of Yucca Valley. Then Cook swore in the incumbent Robert Lombardo and newly elected Jeff Drozd to the council, and then chose Merl Abel as the new mayor and Rick Denison as mayor pro tem. Then the council got down to the night’s business of approving public facilities development impact fees (keeping them the same as when they were implemented in 2005: $9,081 for a single family home in a subdivision; $2,568 for an infill home; $3,600 for a multi-family residence; $1 to $7.74 per square foot for commercial businesses; $7.08 per square foot for offices; and $3.18 per square foot for industrial ), and approving the information technology master plan (which will switch the town from cable to FiOS).
