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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 million to terminate the obligations of state bonds, county officials offer the site a new mission: intellectual aptitude and care of drug addiction.
During a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Managing Council approved plans to turn the 72-bed back-to-school county, built in 2019 but never absolutely open, into a behavioral fitness remedy targeting the severe disorders of intellectual illness 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 return to school installation, an allocation of $ 23 million financed in a component through $ 13 million in the state rental source of income bonds, has been agreed to the uses of transitory choice due to forest fires and the pandemic, according to a resolution of the August 2024 county. Reintegration placement.
To release the new use, the county agreed last year to repay the bonds, interest and related prices, totaling $16 million.
Now, officials are making plans to spend $ nine million to reuse the installation: $ 8. 2 million in the network correctional association, $ 500,000 of the capital improvement program and $ 300,000 in HHSA funds. Nacht & Lewis Architects, in Sacramento, which has designed the original criminal center, will also direct the review of its new use.
Among the construction, reimbursement of bonds and planned renovations, general public investment in the installation technique of $ 50 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.
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