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The out-of-County facilities cost the County upwards of $800 a day, hence the private interest by both in-County and out-of-County businesses to provide "services." The mentally ill, like the poor, are big business. Extreme cases are either housed at the County Jail or shipped out of County to expensive, lock-up facilities where disinterested psychiatrists juggle their meds and return them to Mendocino County where the cycle of illness to extreme illness is often repeated.Ī LOCAL psychiatric holding facility is promised by the Ukiah-based, private mental health contractors known as Redwood Quality Management Co. IN LIEU of a proper County psych center like the one proposed by Allman, the County's expanding population of mentally ill persons remains Allman's responsibility.

As before Yuba City, the police continue to provide the bulk of in-County mental health services. The County has just retrieved psych services from a private Yuba City-based company and has turned over those highly dubious services to a Ukiah-based private company. THE SHERIFF'S proposal to establish an in-County psych holding facility narrowly failed to achieve passage in the November elections.

And even when the helping pros are available during daylight hours the deputies have to wait around for them to arrive. SHERIFF ALLMAN pointed out that his night shift deputies are still burdened by mental health duties without a comparable night shift of helping pros. Many of these calls involve much deputy time hand-holding while the County's privatized, 8-5 helping professionals travel to the troubled person, and even then deputies often wind up doing the bulk of the calming. PRESENTLY, people behaving in an erratic manner become, by default, the responsibility of deputies. ON MONDAY, Sheriff Tom Allman told a joint meeting of the Supes and the Mental Health Board that he did not intend for his deputies to keep on responding to "non-violent" mental health calls. Clint Wilson, the Ukiah native turned Sonoma County wheeler dealer, facilitated the sale. Neighbors are very unhappy, as is the opposition already in place to stop a Dollar Store from descending on the besieged but still bucolic area north of Ukiah.

Stations in italics are ones slated to expand, while the ones in normal type would be new. I’ve sorted the list below into broad geographic areas of the city. What do you think of these locations? Will they grow Capital Bikeshare ridership and/or alleviate crowding problems?Īlso, Arlington will be adding 30 new stations, whose locations haven’t yet been chosen, to the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor this fall and next spring. New stations appear in blue, expanded stations in red.