March 28, 2024
Additional funding approved under new Riverside County budget
RIVERSIDE – (INT) – Riverside County’s 2021-22 budget is a done deal after Tuesday’s approval by the Board of Supervisors.

The spending program sets funding for county government operations over the next year, with funding for public safety, social services, public works projects, community services and health care.

Additional funding:
• $5.5 million for deputy patrol in the unincorporated communities.
$2.5 million to increase the surge capacity of the fire department
• $1 million to develop a program with the county housing department to relocate residents from dilapidated mobile home parks in the eastern Coachella Valley into safer living conditions;
• $500,000 to bring back and start planning the 2022 Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival;
• $3.5 million for an integrated data system to address homelessness and social services;
• $1 million for the Behavioral Health Recovery Village

$5 million was set aside for the county’s Unincorporated Communities Initiative to prioritize projects in the county’s unincorporated communities. The mobile home program will be funded as an allocation from the Unincorporated Communities Initiative.
Tuesday’s approval came during the second day of budget hearings.
Story Date: June 20, 2021
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