The Riverside County Board of Supervisors approved a new agreement to provide fire department dispatch and communications services to the Cahuilla Fire Department.
The new agreement was approved June 27 by a 5-0 vote of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. The agreement became effective July 1 and will end on June 30, 2024.
The Cahuilla Tribe first contracted with the county for dispatch and communications services in 2021. Another one-year contract was approved by the tribe and the county supervisors in 2022. That contract expired on June 30, 2023.
The reservation will be charged based on the number of tribal fire stations (the Cahuilla reservation has one station) and jurisdictional calls. The Fiscal Year 2022-23 contract period had an estimated call volume of 117 calls. The est
