Pala Tribe given new deadline for Highway 76 funding pact

The County of San Diego has extended an agreement with the Pala Band of Mission Indians to improve State Route 76.

The agreement makes June 30, 2015, the date by which the Pala

tribe must enter into an agreement with the California Department of Transportation to fund $20 million of operational improvements for the state highway. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved that extension from June 30, 2010, on a 5-0 vote May 19.

In August 2007 the county supervisors approved an agreement with the Pala nation in which the tribe would pay $20 million to widen Highway 76 between the Rosema...