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Redwood City —He grew up resenting the concrete, cold to the touch and cold to the soul, that walled in his grandmother at a mental health hospital.
So here was Don Horsley, seven decades removed from that experience, speaking at the groundbreaking of a $155 million campus for some of San Mateo County’s most vulnerable mentally ill residents.
“I remember going to visit her in Napa State Hospital. And Napa State Hospital was not a lot different than this,” Horsley said, “this” being the Cordilleras Mental Health Center that will be bulldozed once the new campus is complete.
“It was all concrete and slamming doors. Because of that, being a little boy, seeing a state hospital and women who are locked up in essentially a concrete monstrosity, I guess touched something inside me such that I was always interested in doing better for people who have mental health issues.”
“Doing better for people” is a theme that sounds through the years of Don Horsley, a former teacher, police officer and the elected San Mateo County sheriff.
Now, as Horsley’s third and final term on the Board of Supervisors representing District 3 comes to a close, here’s a look at seven ways Horsley has impacted San Mateo County.
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