As a part of the requirement by the city, we are asking the developer to construct an open channel following our master drainage plan.

So far for the calendar year we have issued a total of 1,225 permits for new single family homes. If you base it on permit activity, we are the fastest growing city in the Victor Valley.

Their budgets are much smaller than ours and they don't have an airport of our capacity.

The increase is to attract and retain employees. As we try to do recruitment we are not getting the right number of qualified candidates, and then we have to take a look at our salaries to find out what's at issue.

It was just happening at the beginning under our radar screen. We feel that now that we understand how they're going about trying to steal the copper pipe, we know how to handle it.

Our greatest hope is that somebody will adopt her.