Maintain our roads while keeping them private!
For Locals, By Locals.
Maintain our roads while keeping them private!
For Locals, By Locals.
ATTENTION MORONGO RESIDENTS
We are delighted to announce that the San Bernardino County Department of Public Works has responded to us with information regarding the cost of restoring and maintaining our roads by creating a County special road district. The cost will be $408 per year, per parcel for ten years. Every road within our boundaries (see map) will be professionally restored and maintained. After ten years the cost drops to $264.00 per year, per parcel. The initial ten-year costs are higher because of the cost of bringing our roads up to standard. San Bernardino County will pay the upfront costs of restoring our roads. Those costs will be repaid over ten years. Some of our roads are in rough shape as they have been neglected for over 30 years. This includes restoring approximately 11.3 miles of road, bringing in approximately 3650 cubic yards of fill dirt, grading our roads for proper water runoff, and then compacting the new fill with a water truck and a roller. Navajo Trail and Rawson Road will be returned to dirt and Big Morongo Canyon will have its asphalt professionally maintained. With this in place, we will never have to worry about buying or renting tractors, paying for dirt, keeping the roads ourselves on weekends, etc. Questions and concerns will be addressed at the Saturday, February 8th meeting at Covington Park at 10:30 am.
Map of Proposed District
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About Us
Next Steps
Next Steps
Crappy Roads is an initiative created by locals to improve and maintain our local and feeder roads while maintaining our private road status. The current boundary roads under consideration are on the north side of Hwy 62 from Desert Willow to Northstar and potentially Big Morongo Canyon; these are the north and south running boundary roads under consideration. For boundary roads that run east
and west we are considering Panorama, Cheyenne, and Northridge.
Next Steps
Next Steps
Next Steps
The next steps to becoming an affordable Special District with the County of San Bernardino for
maintenance of our local main roads and feeder roads are to continue to dispel misinformation and obtain facts, get the information to the landowners, and raise enough funds to cover the costs. We recently heard back from the county and are meeting to get community input.
For locals, by locals.
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Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and fund our mission. This includes offsetting the costs of meeting rooms, website maintenance, and printing costs.
Current Goal: Funding at least 6 more meetings at Covington Park
FACTS
DO LANDOWNERS WANT THIS?
All parcels of land that will benefit from the road improvements will be assessed a tax by the county on the annual tax bill. All parcels will be affected, even parcels with no homes or improvements on them. Empty parcels will pay the same amount as parcels with homes. Government-owned parcels, county water parcels, and BLM land will not be taxed. A 2.5-acre parcel will be assessed at the same cost as a 5-acre parcel. People who own multiple parcels will have a vote for each parcel affected by this improvement initiative. Only private citizens who own a parcel of land that will benefit from the road improvements will get a ballot mailed to them during a special election.
HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?
Before a single penny is spent, we must first figure out if there is a majority of folks who want to proceed. The county will not get involved unless a majority of people think it is a good idea. We then need to decide the boundaries of the road improvement district. The more included parcels, the less expensive it becomes for all of us. Once the boundaries are set, the county will give a “rough draft and cost” of what it could look like. Depending on cost, we would have to decide how many times a year the roads are graded. The residents make that choice based on cost. For example, six times a year will cost more than two times a year. Blacktop costs more than grading, etc..... If we have a majority of people who want to pursue this, we will need to raise a deposit for the county of $2,500. Upon receipt of that deposit, the county special districts department will figure out the final prices and present us with multiple options. At that point, we need to choose an option and pay an additional $2500 for the mail-in ballot election to all parcel owners. If the election is successful, the $5000 is refundable. If we are not successful, the county will not return the money. They use it to pay for all the time they spend doing research etc. Final costs should be less than $20 per month per parcel. The more parcels, the lower the cost for each one.
WHAT ARE THE CURRENT BOUNDARIES UNDER CONSIDERATION?
NOTE: The hard boundaries of the proposed special district/roads to be maintained by the County have not yet been determined.
The current boundary roads under consideration are on the north side of Hwy 62 from Desert Willow to Northstar and potentially Big Morongo Canyon; these are the north and south running boundary roads under consideration. We are considering Panorama, Cheyenne, and Northridge for boundary roads that run east and west.
WHERE ARE WE IN THE PROCESS?
We began this process by holding community meetings to gauge community support to repair the roads in our neighborhood. We formed a board and non-profit organization to facilitate gathering funds transparently through the community, and the County, and to seek grant funding for fixing and maintaining the roads. Over the past few months, we were able to raise $2,500 in community donations to start the process of forming a special district with the County to maintain our roads. Dawn Rowe's office generously donated an additional $2,500 for this project. The County has received $2,500 to start the process to assess the financial viability of maintaining the roads, review potential boundaries for the roads that may be maintained, and form the special district. As part of the County's assessment process, County representatives have already visited our community and driven the roads to review their condition. We are waiting for the County to provide us with their report together with the proposed cost. We will share the results with the community in our next public meeting. We will set a date soon!
ORDER OF EVENTS
- Decide if there is enough support from all landowners involved. If yes, then
- Decide on boundaries and scope of work.
- Have an initial meeting with the County. No $ given.
- Put up signs and build a webpage for information to the landowners.
- Have 2nd meeting with the County regarding a rough draft of costs and scope of work.
- Fundraising initial deposit of $2500.
- The county will get the final hard costs and final scope of work for the yearly tax assessment. We will then decide if we want to continue.
- A 2nd deposit of $2500 is given to the County.
- County mails out ballots to all affected landowners for a pass/ fail vote.
- If it passes, the $5000 is returned to the people who paid into it minus the cost of community donations and used as the people see fit.
- The roadwork begins!
Frequently Asked Questions
Please reach us at if you cannot find an answer to your question.
The County wants to be sure that we want this road improvement before they take the time to get hard bids and research the roads and their current conditions. If the improvement passes, the
money is refunded.
I spoke to Reyno Perez at the Water District, and he gave me two email addresses to contact him and/or another supervisor Tim Moore. If you are unhappy about a road repair after a water break, please email them. They asked that you put “Morongo Valley Resident” in the subject line.
Tim.Moore@specialdistricts.org, and Reyno.Perez@specialdistricts.org
The unfortunate answer is NO. Speed limits are 55 MPH on rural dirt roads. A road must be paved and maintained by the county to get a posted speed limit.
We can set up road maintenance any way we want and can afford. We can set it up on an “as needed” basis, we can set it up, so roads are professionally graded only twice, or three times a year, with additional “as needed”. We make the choice depending on costs!
All parcels are charged the same amount regardless of size because this is how the County charges according to their codes and rules. We cannot change how the county charges, but we are committed to keeping costs under $20 per month per parcel while also keeping our roads private.
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