OC Supervisors are setting aside $21 million initially intended to convert a juvenile substance abuse treatment center on the edge of Santa Ana into a halfway house for ex-inmates as the city’s mayor calls on supervisors to put the facility elsewhere and to stop “dumping” on them.
County officials say while the money has been allocated for a coordinated reentry center for people leaving jail, supervisors will still have to vote to approve the project and its location in the future before it moves forward.
Pushback on the reentry center comes as county officials finalized their budget for the next fiscal year after having to use $75 million in one time funds to balance their books and as they are taking a roughly two month vacation from meetings…