The clients of Valley Recovery Center will be calling a new place home, at least temporarily, after the recovery facility was served an eviction notice Monday afternoon by Merced County officials.

Merced County Community and Economic Development Director Steve Maxey said the facility was red tagged for illegal occupancy and health and safety concerns that still need to be addressed. The County is working with the facility management to make sure that the dozen residents being displaced will have somewhere to go.

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Stromnes said the Center has made the upgrades and repairs flagged under the health and safety codes and have had two fire inspections since that time. The hang up remains with an outdated sprinkler system.

“Everything else has been cleared,” Stromnes said. “We had hoped the County would give us some time to get the sprinkler system done but they said no.”