Public Meeting for County’s Eastern Coachella Valley Infrastructure Effort Scheduled Thursday

COACHELLA – The Public Financing Authority of the Eastern Coachella Valley Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District (EIFD) will hold its first meeting at 11 a.m. Thursday, June 15. The meeting will be in-person and Zoom.
The meeting location is the Coachella Valley Water District Forbes Auditorium in Coachella, 51-501 Tyler St.

The Zoom links are:

English: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84793412084?pwd=S0REQVFmc1VCSUM1ZmpEc2ZTWVA0dz09

Spanish language stream: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86442898484?pwd=RzdHNFN5V0tOeFM3TlNydkR4SndDQT09

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The EIFD is an important component of ECV Próspera, an initiative by Riverside County in partnership with nonprofit organization Alianza Coachella Valley, to bring infrastructure and improve the quality of life in the communities of the eastern Coachella Valley.

The first community meetings about the EIFD were held in May. This meeting, as a Public Financing Authority meeting, is a board meeting of the governing body that will oversee the EIFD. Supervisor V. Manuel Perez and two other Riverside County Supervisors and two appointed community members will join tomorrow’s meeting as the five members of the Authority.

“ECV Próspera, ECV Prosper, is a new initiative to improve infrastructure and enhance the quality of life in the eastern Coachella Valley,” said Supervisor Perez. “The EIFD will help to bring in improvements to water, sewer, electricity, telecommunications, housing and facilities to the eastern Coachella Valley, including the communities of Mecca, North Shore, Oasis, Thermal and Vista Santa Rosa. The EIFD will not result in any new property taxes or increases in existing property taxes. Like other EIFDs across the state, it will get its funding by setting aside a portion of future property tax revenues gathered from growth in the area, not from increases to taxes. ECV Prospera’s EIFD ensures that a portion of area property tax dollars are kept and used locally for investments leading to future growth, and we need the public support to make it happen.”

Information about EIFDs, a map of the proposed EIFD boundaries, and meeting information is available on the county’s Web site, http://rivcoed.org/eastern-coachella-valley.

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Supervisor V. Manuel Perez represents the Fourth Supervisorial District on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. The largest district in the county by geography, the 4th District covers eastern Riverside County, from Whitewater, stretching across the entire Coachella Valley south to the Salton Sea, up Highway 74 to Idyllwild and the mountain communities, and heading east of the Coachella Valley to Blythe and the Colorado River.

Supervisor Perez’s office hours are 9a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday