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San Antonio council backs feasibility study and city–county ad hoc committee for diversion and recovery center
Summary
Council members heard a staff‑led briefing on a CCR that asks the city to participate in an RFP and to form a joint city–county ad hoc committee to study a pre‑arrest diversion center and longer‑term recovery services; the Public Safety Committee recommended participation and the city expects to contribute toward a $100,000 feasibility study.
City staff and the local mental‑health authority on Wednesday briefed the City Council on a Council Consideration Request (CCR) to explore a centralized diversion and recovery system for individuals with mental‑health, intellectual or developmental disability, or substance‑use disorders — and the council voiced broad support for launching a feasibility study and a city–county ad hoc committee.
Maria Vargas, director of the Integrated Community Safety Office, summarized the CCR’s four requests: begin conversation on a diversion center alternative to incarceration; identify necessary infrastructure, staffing and procedural changes; review recommendations from Dr. Alexander Testa’s Bexar County Justice Intake and Assessment annex evaluation;…
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