On Tuesday, Contra Costa County Supervisor Diane Burgis made several announcements during the Brentwood City Council Meeting which included a youth center, fire stations and a new county building.
Burgis shared that the county will be opening a county building for services in East Contra Costa County which will be satellite offices for many county departments–360 employees. A property was recently purchased to build a youth center while two Contra Costa County Fire Protection District fire stations are being built in the city,
Burgis Comments from Tuesday (video below):
“The first thing that I’m really excited to talk to you about is the East County Services. Its going to be a county facility to help bring services to East Contra Costa County. We own a property on Technology and we are looking to build 113,000 sq foot building that will house 360 employees of the county that will work here, hopefully they will be residents, they will shop here. I am excited to bring jobs and services to Brentwood,” said Burgis. “We expect to serve approximately 300 residents per day with over 400 parking spaces for staff and the public.”
While they are still working out who will be in the building, Burgis said it appears the following will be in the building:
- Supervisor Diane Burgis office
- employment and human services
- health services
- county clerk-recorder office
- veterans services
- child support services
- district attorney
- public defender
- department of information technology
“The other exciting thing we are building is a youth center with Measure X money. We each were able to tackle bringing in youth centers. And since there was nothing in East Conta Costa District 3, we went looking in the major cities of Antioch, Oakley and Brentwood,” stated Burgis. “We found a property that is going to be on Shady Willow and Amber Lane and that is where the fire station is going to be built as well. It’s a 5-acre parcel and we are going to divide it and the youth will have a space right next to the fire house.”
Burgis further explained she was hoping the youth center would provide traditional things seen in a youth center from mental health services to sports or music.
“We hope it is giving kids an opportunity to be exposed to thing they haven’t been exposed to,” said Burgis. “I am also working with the building trades to hopefully bring something that will give opportunity to consider jobs within industries that they don’t necessarily have to go to college for because that is not always the tract that all kids are on.
Burgis also said she was excited for the fire stations they were bringing to which include one on Windy Springs Lane and one is in Downtown Brentwood.
“It’s interesting because just a few years ago we were working on the challenges with our fire district. We had 9 people protecting 250-square miles. The challenges of having enough people to deal with a big fire, challenges with health and people got the right level of services. We now have paramedics, and we have more than doubled the number of people, but we need to add these two stations.”
Although her time cut off, Burgis was highlighting the ISO rating which will hopefully drop to a “2 rating” improving from its current “4 rating” which the county hopes will help with insurance premiums and further reduce non-renewals and cancellations.
Note: ISO Rating is 1 (best) to 10 (worst)… the lower the rating, in most cases it helps lower insurance premiums and reduces cancellations. Article – How ISO fire ratings impact your home insurance
Timelines
No timelines were presented on Tuesday, however, Burgis said Thursday the county building could break ground by late 2025 with an opening in 2026. The youth center could be open in 2026, however, in both cases, they till have to design the buildings.
Related Stories:
- Nov 12 – Contra Costa County Supervisors to Get Measure X Report, Reallocate Funding
- Oct 26 – Contra Costa County to Present $5 Million for New Youth Center
- June 22 – New Contra Costa Youth Stabilization Unit Opening for Children and Teens Experiencing Psychiatric Emergencies
- April 6 – Contra Costa County Seeks Feedback on Community Youth Centers
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Wow. So tiny little Brentwood gets all of this for East County but Antioch, a city 2x the population of Brentwood and the 2nd largest city of CoCo Co, gets nothing. Wonder how the residents of Brentwood feel about having a welfare office in their city? Wonder how they will feel about having a youth center that’s open to the Antioch residents they so deeply despise and blame for everything that happens there? This should be interesting.
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