5th Wonder Valley Community Meeting, June 22

The Friends of Wonder Valley sponsors

The 5th Wonder Valley Community Meeting,

11 am, MONDAY, June 22, 2026

Wonder Valley Community Center

80526 ½ Amboy Road

Wonder Valley, California 92277

Iris Gutierrez is our new field rep for Third District Supervisor Dawn Rowe. She will attend the meeting, introduce herself, and answer questions. She replaces  Steve Reyes, who recently retired. Ms. Gutierrez formerly worked for State Assemblyman Tom Lackey, District 34.

Randy Harrison, Wonder Valley’s primary UPS driver, is retiring. Ms. Gutierrez will honor him with a Certificate of Commendation. Please join us in honoring Randy for 14 years of delivering packages to, and checking in on, Wonder Valley residents.

There are cards at the WVCC (ask Jim), and at The Palms (ask the bartender), on which you can leave a parting message to Randy. We will give him these at the meeting.

We’ve made some progress on both the Dark Skies and Behavioral Health agenda items and look forward to sharing these with you at the meeting.

PS: If you’ve missed a meeting you can find past meeting agendas, and meeting materials, including community resources, at:
https://www.friendsofwondervalley.org/p/meeting-materials.html

Community Meeting Agenda for Sunday, May 24, 2026

WONDER VALLEY COMMUNITY MEETING

Sunday, April 26, 2026, 1 to 3 pm

Founders Hall, Twentynine Palms Historical Society

6760 National Park Drive, Twentynine Palms, CA

Meeting Chair: Chairperson Teresa Sitz, with President Nick Harmon, and Secretary Ken Sitz

Everyone is invited and welcome to attend and participate.

A G E N D A

1. Call to order and flag salute 

2. Overviews and Introductions

1. Meeting packet

2. Chairman’s report

3. Attendee Introductions: Your favorite person in Wonder Valley, living or dead?

4. Meeting costs, and thanks for your support

3. Public Comments on items not on the agenda

Please speak briefly -- fewer than 3 minutes, so that everyone who wants to may speak.

4. Special Guest -- Steve Reyes, 3rd District Supervisor Field Rep
   
   

5. New Business

1. Dark Skies

2. Social Services
   
   

6. Agenda planning
   The Community is asked to add no more than two items to the next agenda.

7. Announcements

1. Fifth WV Community Meeting

2. USDA Food Distribution, 10 am, Tuesday, June 16, 2026

3. Please join me in thanking the people who helped with the meeting today, and all of you who participated, and those who helped us cover the meeting costs.
   And please feed the kitty on the way out.

8. Adjournment

Community Meeting Agenda for Sunday, April 26, 2026

WONDER VALLEY COMMUNITY MEETING

Sunday, April 26, 2026, 1 to 3 pm

Founders Hall, Twentynine Palms Historical Society, 6760 National Park Drive, Twentynine Palms, CA

Meeting Chair: Chairperson Teresa Sitz, with President Nick Harmon, and Secretary Ken Sitz

Everyone is invited and welcome to attend and participate.

A PDF of this agenda is available to view and download here.

              A G E N D A

1. Call to order and flag salute 

2. Overviews and Introductions

1. Meeting packet

2. Supervisor Rowe’s letter, containing a brief review of the last meeting

3. Attendee Introductions: How did you first learn about Wonder Valley?

4. Meeting costs, and thanks for your support

3. Public Comments on items not on the agenda

Please speak briefly -- fewer than 3 minutes, so that everyone who wants to may speak.

4. New Business

1. The results of the SWOT Analysis -- Ken Sitz

2. The Chair’s vision for Wonder Valley

3. Prioritizing issues we identified in the last meeting.
   

5. Agenda planning
   The Community is asked to add two items to the next agenda.

6. Announcements

1. New Instagram page at: https://www.instagram.com/friendsofwondervalley/

Many thanks to board member Reyna Daniels for putting this together.

2. Fourth WV Community Meeting, with special guest Steve Reyes
   Date: from 1 - 3 pm, Sunday, May 24, 2026
   Location: Twentynine Palms Historical Society,
   6760 National Park Drive, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277 

3. USDA Food Distribution, 10 am, Tuesday, May 19, 2026

4. Meeting materials and community resources are: 

1. available in the meeting emails. Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/WV411 

2. online at FriendsOfWonderValley.org.

3. and for those who do not have Internet access, once the WVCC is back online, we will have a hardcopy notebook there with the meeting agendas and other meeting materials.

5. Please join me in thanking the people who helped with the meeting today, and all of you who participated, and those who helped us cover the meeting costs.
   And please feed the kitty on the way out.

7. Adjournment

             

3rd Wonder Valley Community Meeting - April 26, 2026

 

The Wonder Valley Community Center has been closed for renovations, so we can’t meet there for our April 26th meeting. Instead of canceling, we’ve reserved Founders Hall at the Twentynine Palms Historical Society.

The 3rd Wonder Valley Community Meeting.
1 pm, Sunday, April 26 at

Founders Hall, Twentynine Palms Historical Society
6760 National Park Drive in 29 Palms.

Everyone is welcome to attend and to participate.

We will be prioritizing issues brought up at last months meeting, and choosing two to put on next month's agenda. The meeting attendees will be deciding on what will be agendized. This is worth celebrating!

Sign up for updates at:
https://www.friendsofwondervalley.org/p/email-list.html

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You are invited to a Community Meeting at 1 pm, Sunday, March 22, 2026, at the Wonder Valley Community Center, 80526 Amboy Road, in Wonder Valley.

This meeting will include a SWOT Analysis, in which we will dive more deeply into the issues that concern us. We will be looking at our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. This engaging and interactive exercise will help us prioritize and strategize.

The Draft Agenda for this meeting, and the Notes from the January 18th meeting, are posted at: www.FriendsOfWonderValley.org. From there you may join the mailing list and be sent regular updates.

Everyone is invited. We hope to see you there!

RESCHEDULED: Community Meeting #2: Draft Agenda & Meeting Notes - New Date Sunday March 22

UPDATED Friday 2/20/2026: Due to a plumbing problem at the Wonder Valley Community Center that will not be resolved before Sunday's meeting, we are rescheduling the Community Meeting to 1 pm, Sunday, March 22, 2026. We'll be at WVCC parking lot on Sunday 2/22 for anyone who has missed this update.

Here is the Draft Agenda for the Community Meeting #2 scheduled for 1 pm, Sunday, February 22, 2026 (now rescheduled to 1 pm, Sunday, March 22, 2026). Immediately below the Draft Agenda is the Meeting Notes from the January 18, 2026 Community Meeting.

WONDER VALLEY COMMUNITY MEETING

Sunday, February 22, 2026, 1 to 3 pm

Wonder Valley Community Center, 80526 Amboy Road, Wonder Valley, CA 92277

Meeting Chair: Chairperson Teresa Sitz, with President Nick Harmon, and Secretary Ken SitzEveryone is invited and welcome to attend and participate.

1. Call to order and flag salute 

2. Overviews and Introductions

Overview of the meeting packet

Brief review of the last meeting

Attendee Introductions: Why did you relocate here?

FOWV: Impartiality and Ethics, Teresa Sitz

3. Public Comments on items not on the agenda

Please review the agenda, and if your item of concern is not listed, and it wasn’t summarized in the compilation of last month’s comments (in your meeting packet), please speak on it briefly -- fewer than 3 minutes.

4. Meeting Notes from January 18, 2026 are included in your meeting packet

5. Unfinished Business

Response from Third District Supervisor Dawn Rowe
Waiting for agency response regarding status of the WVCC kitchen
Waiting for agency response regarding response on the intersection of Godwin and Amboy

6. New Business

KEN SITZ -- SWOT Analysis: a deep dive together into our community’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. We’ll also look at the values and aspirations we share as a community. From these we will determine our priorities and strategies -- what we most want to accomplish, and how we will go about it.

7. Agenda planning -- next steps
   

   Today’s SWOT analysis will help us determine what to focus on in upcoming meetings. At the next meeting we will celebrate the community involvement in planning the agenda.

7. Announcements

1. Third Community Meeting date: March 22, 2026
2. USDA Food Distribution, 10 am, Tuesday, March 17, 2026
3. Join me in thanking the people who helped with the meeting today:Reeyna Daniel, Jill Reinig, Jeffrey Barrett, and those who participated today and helped the FOWV cover the meeting expenses.

9. Adjournment

WONDER VALLEY COMMUNITY MEETING
Sunday, January 18, 2026, 1 to 3 pm
Wonder Valley Community Center, 80526 Amboy Road, Wonder Valley, CA 92277
Meeting Chair: Teresa Sitz
Everyone is invited and welcome to attend and participate.

N O T E S

1. Call to order and flag salute

The meeting was called to order at 1:03 pm.

2. Introductions

a. Friends of Wonder Valley, Teresa Sitz
b. What We Have Going for Us, Ken Sitz
c. Attendee Introductions

3. Comments on items not on the agenda

A broad array of topics were addressed by the community. Many of the comments centered on the WVCC Kitchen, its renovation, and the budget for the renovation. The renovations are being paid for from an ARPA grant. ARPA is The American Rescue Plan Act. The project has stalled because of the necessity of an RO system with a larger capacity. The WVCC Coordinator Jim Dunham told us that it will be a fully functional kitchen that can be rented, and will serve Senior Meals.

There was a question about the Sheriff’s Department and about whether or not they were informed on laws regarding off roading. Operation Hammerstrike was mentioned with gratitude for the County shutting down pot farms.

People expressed a desire to have the Sheriff’s Department attend a meeting, as we used to do, and to also invite other agencies. People brought up dark skies, the ordinance, and lack of enforcement, as well as protection for native fauna.

One person talked about the “See Click Fix” app free from County Public Works: that allows residents to send pictures, videos, specific descriptions, and more. Download here: https://dpw.sbcounty.gov/operations/see-click-fix/

4. Discussion of Meeting Dates and Times

Shall the Community Meetings be every month, or every other month?
Shall they be on Sunday afternoons, or during the week?
The Community agreed to meet next February 22.

 

5. Agenda planning

Next month’s SWOT analysis will help us decide what we want on upcoming agendas.There was a brief description given about the SWOT process.

 

6. Announcements

USDA Food Distribution, 10 am, Tuesday, February 10
Community Meeting, with the SWOT Analysis -- Time and Date To Be Decided

 

7. Adjournment

Jill motioned to adjourn at 2:16