Making Desert Hot Springs safer, providing well-lit streets and business corridors, and keeping neighborhood parks and public spaces clean help protect our local property values by making our community a more desirable place to live, do business, and raise a family.
But a combination of state takeaways of local funds, unfunded mandates for local cities by the state, a local decline in cannabis revenue, and the increased need for services due to a 25% increase in population, mean the City does not have the funds needed to maintain the basic services our residents value.
