They will also "fear monger"....telling you closure will mean releasing dangerous mentally-ill individuals "onto the streets."  Balderdash.  Instead, the wasteful spending of that 34.5 million will actually keep the state from funding those community-based mental health programs and facilities which would provide support, treatment and care for the hundreds of mentally-ill Oregonians who are "one the streets and homeless" this very moment.  

The legislature made a massive mistake....but, don't expect them to admit it and work to take corrective measures.  Instead they will defend their mistake and perpetuate the waste it has created.  Welcome to Political Science 1A.  Gary Crum