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A status quo of the Napa County built for low -level criminals in the criminal transition has never fulfilled its objective. Now, after years of delays and a payment of $ 16. 5 million to terminate the obligations of state bonds, county officials offer a new project to the site: intellectual aptitude and drug addiction.
During a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the Management Council approved the plans to convert the county to the 72 -beds school, built in 2019 but never absolutely open, in a physical condition remedy of behavior aimed at serious intellectual disease disorders and substance intake.
Since the first part of 2026, the 21,000 feet installation will space 3 controlled systems through the County Health and Social Services Agency: a program for the processing of the consumption of residential ingredients, a means of rehabilitation of intellectual fitness and a medium that provides thinking.
“The new Middle Remedy of Behavior will strengthen our attention formula for our maximum vulnerable residents,” said Anne Cottrell manager in a statement. “We expand our residential remedy capacity and create a safe and favorable area for those who want it maximum. “
The original Get Start installation – an allocation of $ 17 million in components financed through $ 13. 5 million in the state rental source of income bonds, invited in the uses of transitory choice due to forest and pandemic fires, according to a solution of the county of August 2024. When he in a position is deals with through the Americans. The growing. Reintegration placement.
To release for a new use, the county agreed last year to reimburse the obligations, interests and related prices, for a total of $ 16. 5 million.
Now officials plan to spend $ four million to reuse installation. Nacht & Lewis Architects, in Sacramento, who designed the original criminal center, will direct the review of its new use.
Among the construction, of the bonds and the planned renovations, the general public investment in the installation is $ 37. 5 million.
The transformation, officials said, reflects the evolution of public security models and replacement in state policy, and offers the criminal option for other people suffering from intellectual aptitude or dependency crisis.
The director of Social and Health Services, Jennifer Yasumoto, said that the task will relieve tension in the NAPA State Hospital and meet the limits of the current County Residential Treatment Program, which is housed in a construction rented with chronic maintenance disorders and without a place to develop.
“(The) current residential remedy program and retirement control has exceeded its rented space,” he said, and pointed out that the new site allows the placement of the facilities considered for a long time through the agency.
The establishment returning to school, located on the Napa-Vallejo highway, selected for its disposition, its existing capacity and proximity to the new County Criminal and the Main Campus of HHSA, said the county. Its existing probation service operations will move to give way to behavior aptitude programs.
Fixed (June 4, 2025, four p. m. ): The story has been updated to specify that the structure charge was $ 17 million and that renewals are estimated at $ four million, which provides $ 37. 5 million in general public investment in the installation.
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