KESQ 10/26 – College of the Desert hosts annual State of the College address; update on campus expansion projects

The Coachella City Council passed a resolution Wednesday urging College of the Desert to build a campus in their city. Councilmember Megan Beaman Jacinto, an attorney who represents the former college president in ongoing concerns between him and the college’s board of trustees, was absent. Read full article here

The applicant pool for the Trustee Area 3 vacancy on the College of the Desert has dwindled from seven applicants to six, according to those familiar with the process. One applicant was rejected for not living within the Trustee 3 area, which you can see in this link. Trustees have been asked to score each…

The College of the Desert board of education will hold a presentation with updates on the Palm Springs campus and Roadrunner Motors in Cathedral City. The campus has been in development since 2004 with almost $1 billion raised in tax revenue for construction. It will be located on a 27-acre site right across the street…

PALM DESERT — The question for some College of the Desert leaders isn’t so much what did they know and when did they know it, but better, what did some know and why did they not disclose it? In less than two months, questions have shaken the offices of President Martha Garcia, Trustee Rubén AríAztlán Pérez,…

The tide is now shifting since the last couple of years that Superintendent/President, Dr. Martha Garcia took her position. Her lack of transparency and attempt to pause the Palm Springs Campus and Cathedral City Roadrunners program created an uproar in the community, along with a lawsuit filed against COD last September from the City of…

Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up. Friday’s article in The Desert Sun, with one trustee bashing another publicly with innuendo and crazy claims about convention centers and presidential suites, was about the last straw for me.