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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 16, 2025 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 6-c <br /> SUBJECT: Review of Options for the Design of Crisis Diversion Facility <br /> DEPARTMENT: Asset Management Services <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Presentation Travis Myren, County Manager, 919- <br /> 245-2308 <br /> Caitlin Fenhagen, Deputy County <br /> Manager, 919-245-2303 <br /> Alan Dorman, Director of AMS, 919-245- <br /> 2627 <br /> PURPOSE: To review five alternative design options and project budgets to build the Crisis <br /> Diversion Facility, select an option, and then direct the Manager to finalize the design and prepare <br /> a guaranteed maximum price for the Board to approve in the Winter of 2025. <br /> BACKGROUND: Efforts regarding the proposed Crisis Diversion Facility development over the <br /> last six (6) years are as follows: <br /> 2019 — The Board established The Orange County Behavioral Health Task Force (BHTF), and its <br /> Crisis Diversion Facility Subcommittee, in November 2019. The Crisis Diversion Facility <br /> Subcommittee was comprised of subject matter experts in behavioral health clinical services, <br /> emergency services, law enforcement, and criminal justice, in conjunction with Orange County <br /> government. <br /> 2021 —The Subcommittee received approval from the Board of County Commissioners("BOCC") <br /> In April 2021 to develop a recommendation for the Crisis Diversion Facility, along with additional <br /> funding of $250,000 for pre-planning services in November 2021. The County completed an <br /> request for qualifications (RFQ) process and selected CPL Architecture to perform preliminary <br /> and schematic-level design and analysis services for developing the Crisis Diversion Facility. <br /> 2023 — The Board approved the FY 2023-33 Capital Investment Plan ("CIP"), which included <br /> $2,047,155 for design services for the Crisis Diversion Facility and $22,952,845 for construction <br /> in FY 2024-25. <br /> 2024 — The Boad approved $1,100,000 for land acquisition. An RFQ process selected CPL to <br /> begin the design at a cost of $1,172,000. <br />