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El Dorado County approves environmental review, planning funds for navigation center replacement
Summary
County staff outlined a shift to a smaller, treatment-focused navigation center and a conservative timeline that closes the existing site in March 2027. The board authorized environmental analysis and delegated procurement authority for design services to advance planning for a new facility intended to serve roughly 30 people.
El Dorado County officials on Jan. 27 received a staff presentation on a revised plan for the county’s navigation center and voted to authorize environmental analysis and procurement for design and planning services.
Olivia Byron Cooper, director of the county Health and Human Services Agency, told the Board of Supervisors the county was instructed in September to develop a more sustainable model for the navigation center that shifts toward a mandatory treatment-based approach and away from the earlier low-barrier, housing-first model. She said the revised plan would focus resources where they believe services will lead to the greatest chance of permanent housing, and that the proposed new site would house “approximately 30 individuals and families with children.” Cooper added,…
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