County Assumes Troubled City's Public Safety Obligations

RIVERSIDE - The city of Jurupa Valley, deep in a financial crisis stemming from changes to state law, will be relieved of making $6 million in payments for law enforcement services due to a cost-deferral plan implemented today by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors.

''If we don't see some fiscal help that allows them to pay this back, there's no more going down this path,'' board Chairman John Benoit warned before joining his colleagues in a unanimous vote in favor of the relief effort.

Under the plan, the financially strapped city, which incorporated on July 1, 2011, will be spared payi...