As College of the Desert’s board discusses the next steps for a long-delayed Palm Springs campus, some city leaders in the east valley are weighing in on the project and are not happy about it.
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Coachella Mayor Steven Hernandez is ramping up calls for a COD campus to be built in the eastern coachella valley.
“We’re asking for the College of the Desert, we’re asking that they not forget their promise,” Hernandez said.
On Wednesday, Hernandez shared a video of COD President Joel Kinnaman speaking during public comment during the Oct. 26, 2016 City Council meeting.
Hernadez aired some of his frustrations on Facebook, in which he said Palm Springs officials called Coachella and East Valley efforts to build a campus a “backroom deal.”
Hernandez told…
