The Boston City Council unanimously adopted a resolution urging prioritization of a recovery campus to serve people with substance-use and co-occurring mental-health needs, reflecting broad council support for a regional, well-resourced continuum of care.

Councilor Flynn filed the resolution and added Councilors Murphy and Fitzgerald as original cosponsors on the floor. Flynn said the city and region need structured residential programs like the former Long Island recovery campus — which he and other councilors described as offering shelter beds, recovery beds, detox, mental-health care and other wraparound services — and that a replacement or similarly resourced campus should be prioritized even if it sits outside Boston city limits.

Councilor Murphy recalled Long Island’s prior role in providing integrated services and said rebuilding or replacing comparable capacity should be a priority. Councilor Jardine said the campus is intended to fill gaps in the continuum of care and noted options could include a decentralized model as an interim approach and centralized campus as a longer-term aim.

Councilor Braden noted a previously cited estimated total cost to reopen and build new facilities on Long Island of roughly $550,000,000 and said the scale of investment will likely require state and federal funding and regional cooperation. Councilor Weber and others urged partners in Quincy and across the region to avoid delaying actions that would stall the re-opening process. Councilors stressed the urgency because the bridge closure to Long Island in October 2014 ended the on-island services; speakers observed that the former campus offered more than 700 shelter beds and over 200 recovery beds at the time of closing.

The clerk conducted a roll call and the docket (1750) received unanimous affirmative votes in the transcript; the council recorded the resolution as adopted.