Summary: Open Phone Topics: Joshua Tree National Park attendance record for 2017 is 2,853,619 visitors. Joshua Basin Water District 50 percent rate increase, eventually 90 percent over a 5-year period. Proposed public funds used for Grubstake Days rodeo. Water District Board voting unanimously for rate increases. Morongo basin man guilty of two counts of attempted murder took a plea bargain and only spent 178 days in jail.
