Turlock officials are asking Stanislaus County to postpone a decision Tuesday on a contract extension for a controversial mental health services residential facility on Colorado Avenue. Turlock City Manager Reagan Wilson criticized the county for not communicating with the city when the contract , or Alamo Health, would go before the board for approval. About 200 city residents packed a Turlock council meeting in February to oppose the adult residential care facility at the former Las Palmas Estates at 1617 Colorado.
People expressed fears that adult clients with serious mental illness would endanger students at nearby Dutcher Middle School. The center is down the street from another school and near pediatric medical offices, critics of the proposal said. Clients of the center would receive behavioral counseling and assistance to take medication, but they could also come and go as they like.
In a letter to the Board of Supervisors last week, Wilson said the city found out from the contractor, not the county, that amendments to the agreement with A&A Health were scheduled for Tuesday’s board meeting. The contract extension of “agreements and amendments” with behavioral health service providers and is hard to find in a 132-page county staff report. “After all that has transpired on this matter, we find it profoundly disappointing that I had to request the status of amendments to your agreement with (A&A) instead of the county reaching out to us to hear the concerns of o.
