Comments on: State of CA worsened Desert Hot Springs’ financial problems

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 21:06:02 +0000

In reply to Rex the Wonderdog!. Your statement of they got what they deserve. LOL thats laughable. Originally the City of Desert Hot Springs was a retirement community. Unfortunatly for those residents at that time. The County of Riverside started telling the parole's and mental patients with no where to go upon release, Should move to Desert Hot Springs. The rents are affordable and their are lots of public service jobs available in the valley. The county continued this process for years on end. The lack of community services at that time were huge. More schools were needed as these new residents had children and most needed assistance. It wasent until Corky Lawson donated her time to the city of desert Hot Springs was there any hope in sight. The City has been clever but looking back for instance the first police department of Desert Hot Springs i belive that was 1982 or close to that. They the officials of the actual police department turned out to me convicts from Florida if i recall correctly. they were all arrested and the police department was closed. I mean seriously who in history has such an experience of corruption from within? Not to mention Desert Hot Springs was home to Al Capone. Their are tunnels and underground dwellings sprinkled through out Desert Hot Springs. Its rich in history.. It suffers from Greed at the top and extremely bad management.

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 20:44:37 +0000

Its HORRIBLE!!!!
I have experienced Desert Hot Springs California since 1964. The changes have been unfathomable. The land there is exquisite. In all honestly the view East of Pierson looking toward the Coachella is Better then Clancy lane of the upper eshilance of Palms Desert . View.. Point being it has cleaner air then Palm Desert. Its has great water and Greed, greed and more greed has turned Desert Hot Springs what it is today. The history of that area is awesome. The scent of the desert there. Its not like Palm Desert where they turned it into a tropical golf course mini metropolis.. Desert Hot Springs is drier and more of what the coachell valley used to be. Its quite obvious that if you want a piece of the coachella valley Desert Hot Springs has great potential and more clear land… Look at rest of the valley… Frank Sinatra Drive raw land sold for 20.00 yes that twenty dollars and acre. I say get that land while you can. When its gone you can’t get anymore.

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:38:08 +0000

In reply to DesertSeeker. Good question Desert Seeker. I will look into that. Thanks

By: DesertSeeker

DesertSeeker — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:43:27 +0000

I wonder where those city council members are today who rejected the measures that would have resulted in income to the city instead of the nightmare they left us with.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:15:51 +0000

It appears to me that both California and Mineral hot springs have made running a small community complicated to the point of mental illness. What happened to simple, sound fiscal management. They might as well have taken the cities treasure down to the casino in Banning and tried their luck there. Blackjack is far less complicated that the insane court case lottery they lost.
Mineral Hot Springs was the setting of the classic cop novel ‘The Secrets of Harry Bright”. How anyone could screw up a simple little town like that is a mystery.
Hondo…….

By: Rex the Wonderdog!

Rex the Wonderdog! — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:06:27 +0000

The city could have worked with the park owners, they didn’t, they rolled the dice on a lawsuit and it came up snake eyes, and like I said, this is very common in gov.

By: Wayne Lusvardi

Wayne Lusvardi — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:07:19 +0000

The point of this article is that in Hotel California there is no way out as the Eagles song lyrics say.
Desert Hot Springs can not contain its costs because the state has imposed an unfunded mandate of picking up the costs to serve an illegal mobile home park subdivision that drains city revenues. Desert Hot Springs can’t resolve their financial problems with bankruptcy or by business as usual. This might be another city that disincorporates and merges with the county. And if they were smart they might just try to do that if the County would allow it.

By: Rex the Wonderdog!

Rex the Wonderdog! — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:22:41 +0000

They got hat the deserved. Muni’s refusing to negotiate market damages in lawsuits is the rule, because they KNOW if the jury comes back with a large liability judgment, they will get it reversed by federal judges, at the trial court or the 9th. And most f the time that is true. That is why you do a deal, so you do not have the uncertainty of trial. Just think if criminals could go to trial, and if found guilty could et a new trial because the judge gives them a long sentence. That never happens, but in civil litigation that is what always happens with muni’s.