Desert Sun 2/19 – With COD, you can only laugh or cry

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Palm Springs has sent College of the Desert a $5.7 million offer to buy just under 120 acres of land in the city’s northern end once slated to become COD’s west valley campus. The condition? COD must agree to build its long-envisioned west valley campus…

Ron Oden, who was appointed with unanimous support in May to the College of the Desert Board of Trustees, will join Board Chair Bonnie Stefan on a subcommittee to review allegations that Trustee Rubén Pérez violated the College’s Code of Ethics. Real full article here

As you have been reading in our previous emails, Promises made, Promises Broken has made it our mission to keep you informed of the actions of the COD Board Of Trustees and report on what progress they are making to fulfill the promises they made to the students and taxpayers of our Valley. Unfortunately at…

The second in a series of four public meetings at College of the Desert covered the functions and features of proposed spaces for the Palm Springs Development Project (PSDP). COD board members and representatives from three West Valley cities, including the Mayor of Cathedral City, Rita Lamb, were able to weigh-in alongside community members. The completed…

At the first COD Trustees Board Meeting on January 20th at 9:30a, a review of the updated plans for the Palm Springs Campus along with the Cathedral City Roadrunners Motor Campus will take place. For the PS West Campus, the plans show one main building for student services and classrooms, while roughly half of the…