The Horizon Recovery Center can bring critical unmet healthcare to the county. The services will benefit thousands of local families by breaking the generational illnesses of substance and alcohol abuse, accompanied many times with underlying mental disorders. The magnitude of such import cannot be overstated.
I take umbrage in the fact that the San Mateo City Council encouraged the formation of a working group, made up of community members and Horizon representatives, and then did nothing to promote or form this group. In the absence of a city-directed process, an ad hoc working group was created by community member Taso Zografos.
Taso has been a vehement opponent of this project and has publicly called for its demise. In one of his many emails on the Horizon project he stated, “This issue will not be fully resolved until Corzo-Horizon formally abandon their plans for the proposed facility at 101 N. El Camino Real.”
This project deserves to be granted a much higher level of respect than afforded by the city’s laissez-faire attitude. The city leaders have requested a robust civic engagement, and they need to follow through in making that a reality.
The injustice is the county let a fully operational site at Mahler Road to close after an embezzlement case (by a county insider) with the previous provider. Mahler Road would be faster to reopen and the remaining 25 million should be used for other initiatives. Instead the neighbors are being demonized for speaking up.
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The injustice is the county let a fully operational site at Mahler Road to close after an embezzlement case (by a county insider) with the previous provider. Mahler Road would be faster to reopen and the remaining 25 million should be used for other initiatives. Instead the neighbors are being demonized for speaking up.
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