The state’s new behavioral health center for central Oklahoma faces a massive cost overrun because the project’s initial estimate didn’t include furniture and equipment and bathrooms must be redesigned from hallways to individual rooms.
The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services requested an additional $125 million to finish the Donahue Behavioral Health Center in Oklahoma City. The initial cost estimate was $150 million.
Lawmakers and other state officials broke ground on the Donahue Center in March and expected the facility to be finished by 2026. That opening may now have to be pushed back to 2028, said Sen. Chuck Hall, R-Perry, the chairman of the Senate’s Appropriations Committee…