The Clayton County Board of Commissioners held a work session on May 12, 2026, at 5:30 PM. The meeting covered updates on a behavioral health crisis facility, the Development Authority, the Flint River Boys & Girls Club, a rescheduled FY2025 audit, Georgia Power's growth strategy, a data center presentation from the National Association of Data Center Readiness (NADCR), zoning revocation notices, and a briefing on the newly passed statewide homestead exemption (SB 33). No public comments were heard. Several items were scheduled for the next regular meeting on May 19, 2026.
Good evening, everyone or afternoon. The Clayson County Board of Commissioners work session is now called to order. The date is May 12th, 2026, and the time is 5 30 p.m. At this time, board members, are there any preliminary items for May 19, 2026 that you would like to discuss or um that are going to be on our next board meeting? All right, anything to discuss? No. All right. All right. Next we will move on to our agenda items. Uh the first one is behave is our uh behavioral health crisis uh facility update. And we have Mr. Chad Jones who is here. And will you please come forward to the podium? Well, good afternoon, Madam Chair and board members. It's good to see you all again. Good to see Dietrich coming in. Um I have some very exciting news. We have presented to you all uh before and showed plans that we were going to purchase nine acres in Morrow at the corner of Mount Zion Boulevard and South Lake uh Parkway, right across from the Costco. We use the Costco as a landmark sometimes for people that don't know that area. So right across from there, nine acres to build the behavioral health uh crisis center, the BHCC. Uh I am very pleased to report they accepted our offer, and last Thursday we closed on that property. So we now officially own that property. Um we have also received uh funding in a contract from the Department of Behavioral Health to uh not only uh for the funding of that property but also the uh the operations. Um so in addition, I have some fantastic news that I wanted to share with you all. Um in putting out bids for the architect and the construction. We started looking at the land, we started talking to the Department of Behavioral Health, and we have a crisis stabilization unit for children that is off of Canler Road, off of I 20 Canler Road in DeCab County. But it's good. The issue is um we only serve 14 year olds to 17 year olds at that facility. The Department of Behavioral Health would like us to move to five year olds to 17, basically serve the entire childhood and youth years. We cannot fit that population in that current space. So I am very uh pleased to report and very excited to report that on the back side of that property, you're gonna have the behavioral health crisis center, which is going to be 30 beds for adults, and then on the other side, we're gonna have 16 beds for children and youth. So we're very, very excited about that. Uh that will serve all ages five to 17. Uh, I have re I've also reported out to you all before, Commissioner Davis. I think you asked a really good question last time I was here. How are we going to make sure that we handle transitions in and out and all that kind of stuff? And I'd answer that question, then it came up about serving Clayton County residents. And we did pull some data from our other programs. We have a we have a crisis center in Gwinnett County. 71% of that crisis center is served serves uh Gwenitians. Um I am here to tell you that that crisis center uh will have a walk-in component. Nobody from Clayton County will ever, ever, ever be turned away. Uh they will get received those services. Uh, in addition, and Commissioner Davis, I hope this makes you happy. I went back and started doing a lot of work on we've got the housing components, and we're doing a lot of stuff like that, but the transitional services out of a crisis center, usually our intensive services. You don't you don't leave a crisis center and just go right back to you know what you were doing over here in the outpatient clinic. Sometimes you need intensive services. So I'm very pleased to report that we've also expanded our contract with the Department of Behavioral Health. We are going to be offering two very large and very robust community-based uh intensive programs. Those community-based intensive programs are assertive community treatment act and intensive case management.