Skip to main content
File #: 2025-0346   
Type: Consent Calendar Item Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 3/5/2025 In control: Public Infrastructure
On agenda: 7/22/2025 Final action:
Title: BHCIP R5 - Contract Award - Youth Crisis Center Phase 1 Demolition of Gymnasium and Pool at Los Guilicos Campus
Department or Agency Name(s): Public Infrastructure
Attachments: 1. Summary Report.pdf, 2. 1 - Construction Contract_draft.pdf, 3. 2 - Supplement to Contract.pdf, 4. 3 - CEQA Notice of Exemption_as of 6-27-25.pdf

To: Board of Supervisors

Department or Agency Name(s): Sonoma County Public Infrastructure

Staff Name and Phone Number: Johannes J. Hoevertsz, 707-565-2550

Vote Requirement: Majority

Supervisorial District(s): First

 

Title:

Title

BHCIP R5 - Contract Award - Youth Crisis Center Phase 1 Demolition of Gymnasium and Pool at Los Guilicos Campus

End

 

Recommended Action:

Recommended action

A)                     Award a construction contract and delegate authority to the Director of Public Infrastructure to execute a contract, in form approved by County Counsel, with Machado Brothers, Inc. in the amount of $391,493, plus a 10% contingency of $39,149, for the demolition of the gymnasium and pool at the Los Guilicos campus.

B)                     Determine the proposed Youth Behavioral Health Treatment facility project to be categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and direct that a Notice of Exemption be filed accordingly.

(First District)

 

end

Executive Summary:

In July 2023, the Department of Health Services (DHS) was awarded an $18,233,680 grant to build a behavioral health and substance abuse treatment facility to serve Sonoma County at-risk teens on the Los Guilicos campus. Sonoma County Public Infrastructure (SPI), Capital Projects Division is managing the design and construction of the new facility on behalf of DHS and is requesting Board approval of a construction contract for the demolition of an existing gymnasium and pool on the Los Guilicos campus.

 

The demolition of these facilities is the first step in preparing the site for future construction, and SPI is recommending approval of a $391,493 construction contract with a 10% contingency of $39,149 for a total, not to exceed contract amount of $430,642 with Machado Brothers, Inc., the lowest responsible bidder for this work.

 

Discussion:

In January 2023, the Department of Health Services (DHS) submitted an application for Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP) Round 5 grant to

fund construction of a new, residential treatment center for teens with substance abuse and other behavioral disorders. In order to qualify for the grant, the County was required to provide a local match. The County chose to meet the match requirement by donating land at the County-owned Los Guilicos campus as the site location for the Project.

 

In July 2023, DHS was notified of an approved grant award in the amount of $18,233,680.

The proposed Sonoma County Youth Behavioral Health Treatment facility is to include two residential wings, separate from one another to provide services to two separate populations. One wing is to include eight beds for residential substance use disorder treatment for children and youth ages 12 to 18. A second wing in the facility will house six beds for crisis residential behavioral health treatment for children and youth ages 12 to 18. In addition to the two residential treatment wings, the facility will include a separate section for the delivery of outpatient substance use disorder services for youth and young adults ages 12-25.

 

The County of Sonoma currently has no facilities available to provide either residential substance abuse disorder treatment, or crisis residential behavioral health treatment for children and youth ages 12 to 18 and their families. Children, youth and their families in need of these services currently need to be referred to programs located outside the County across the Northern California region. It is estimated that the addition of this treatment space will expand service capacity by 600 children, youth, and family members per year for outpatient treatment, and will provide additional capacity for 300 children and youth ages 12 to 18 and their families who will be served in the residential treatment programs. Access for these 900 youth and their families will significantly improve services not only in Sonoma County but also the San Francisco Bay Area and the greater Northern California Region.

 

In order to prepare the selected site for construction of the new facility an existing gymnasium and pool built in 1965 must be demolished. Demolition permits have been acquired from the Permit and Resource Management Department, and on February 10, 2025, the project was advertised in the Press Democrat, and a bid package was posted to the County supplier portal. On February 18, 2025, a mandatory site visit was conducted by SPI staff, and March 5, 2025, bids were opened. Two bids were received and both bidders were deemed responsive. They were:

 

1. Machado Brothers, Inc. - $391,493

2. TAP Excavation - $481,232

 

Machado Brothers, Inc., was determined to be the lowest responsible bidder and is recommended for award.

 

Environmental Review

 

The proposed Youth Behavioral Health Treatment facility will be constructed on site of the existing gym and pool. The site is zoned “Public/Institutional,” and the facility will be another component of the government institution uses that exist throughout the Los Guilicos campus, such as the Valley of the Moon Children’s Center, the juvenile detention facility and courts, and the Crestwood psychiatric facility.  The structural footprint of the new treatment facility (approximately 7,500 square feet) will be similar in size to the existing gym (7,600 square feet), and new parking areas and outside features will be constructed within the disturbed areas on the site, including over the filled-in former swimming pool. Given the small-scale of the treatment facility in terms of staffing and the number of daily clients (for example, less than fifteen residential beds), traffic would be minimal and insignificant compared to the other, more intensive existing uses at the Los Guilicos campus. As such, the proposed facility is categorically exempt under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), including but not limited pursuant to 14 CCR 15061(b)(3) (common sense; no significant impact).

 

Strategic Plan:

This item directly supports the County’s Five-year Strategic Plan and is aligned with the following pillar, goal, and objective.

 

Pillar: Healthy and Safe Communities

Goal: Goal 1: Expand integrated system of care to address gaps in services to the County’s most vulnerable.

Objective: Objective 3: Increase investment in programs that treat underlying causes of homelessness, including substance abuse, mental illness, poverty, and lack of affordable housing.

 

Racial Equity:

 

Was this item identified as an opportunity to apply the Racial Equity Toolkit?

No

 

Prior Board Actions:

October 3, 2023, Item 2023-1104 - Adopt a resolution to authorize the Director of Health Services to execute a program funding agreement with Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. and to receive $18,233,680 in revenue to support the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program in Sonoma County through June 30, 2027.

 

July 18, 2023, Item 2023-0892 - Behavioral Health & Housing Grants Awarded to the Department of Health Services.

 

June 12, 2023, Item 2023-0693 - Adopt a resolution authorizing joint application to and participation in the Project Homekey-3 Program (Redwood Inn Transitional Age Youth Project).

 

Fiscal Summary

 Expenditures

FY 25-26 Adopted

FY 26-27 Projected

FY 27-28 Projected

Budgeted Expenses

$391,493

 

 

Additional Appropriation Requested

 

 

 

Total Expenditures

$391,493

 

 

Funding Sources

 

 

 

General Fund/WA GF

 

 

 

State/Federal

$391,493

 

 

Fees/Other

 

 

 

Use of Fund Balance

 

 

 

General Fund Contingencies

 

 

 

Total Sources

$391,493

 

 

 

Narrative Explanation of Fiscal Impacts:

Appropriations for this contract are included in the FY2025-26 DHS Behavioral Health Substance Use Disorder Division (11605-22030106) Adopted Budget. SPI and DHS will return to the Board for approval of design and construction contracts associated with this project, and appropriations for the project will be included in FY2026-27 and FY2027-28 DHS Recommended Budgets.

 

Staffing Impacts:

 

 

 

Position Title (Payroll Classification)

Monthly Salary Range (A-I Step)

Additions (Number)

Deletions (Number)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Narrative Explanation of Staffing Impacts (If Required):

N/A

Attachments:

1 - Construction Contract - Draft

2 - Supplement to Contract

3 - CEQA Notice of Exemption

 

Related Items “On File” with the Clerk of the Board:

None