The Napa Valley Vintners, the trade organization for some 300 local wineries, has expressed interest in opening a community center in American Canyon, delivering health care and social services to south county residents with limited resources.

While the Vintners have a center on Pear Tree Lane in Napa, no such building exists in American Canyon, the county’s fastest-growing city.

The vintners have expressed their interest in what is currently American Canyon City Hall, on Crawford Way. The city plans to move out of the site next year, when upgrades are complete on a building the city acquired further north, near Napa Junction.

“We’re looking for ways to give back to the community,” said Napa Vintners President Peter McCrea.

On Tuesday, the American Canyon City Council voted to form a subcommittee with Mayor Leon Garcia and City Councilwoman Cindy Coffey to discuss options and seek public input regarding the Crawford Way property.

The city hall building “belongs to all of us,” Garcia said.

Options mentioned at Tuesday’s City Council meeting include moving the public library there or simply selling the 5,000-square-foot former bank and the 1.6 acres around it. American Canyon’s library is in leased space at nearby Canyon Plaza.

The Napa Valley Vintners’ community resource center in American Canyon would allow residents who now have to travel to Napa for social and health services to receive those services in town.

The vintners’ community resource center would rent space to nonprofit organizations at below-market rates on a long-term basis, according to a letter from the Napa Valley Vintners to American Canyon Mayor Leon Garcia.

“This facility would be modeled after the very successful Napa Valley Vintners Community Health Center in the city of Napa that was built in 2002 using grants from the Napa Valley Vintners and private donations,” McCrea wrote.

The Napa center houses Community Health Clinic Ole, Sister Ann Community Dental Clinic, the administrative office of Napa Emergency Women’s Services and Healthy Moms and Babies.

McCrea and Rex Stults, industry relations director each said that there are no timelines for the project.

“The city is really controlling this. It’s their building,” McCrea also said.

Clinic Ole is considering opening an office in American Canyon, according to the Napa Valley Vintners. Parry said Clinic Ole served 1,200 people from American Canyon between July 2006 and June 2007. Altogether, 22,500 people came for medical and dental services over those 12 months. Last week, the vintners awarded Clinic Ole more than $1 million in Auction Napa Valley proceeds.

Sherry Tennyson, executive director of the American Canyon Family Resource Council, said on Thursday that her organization supports the creation of a one-stop center where families could receive health, counseling and other services.

“I know we could use it,” she said, adding transportation to Napa is problematic for many of the families her agency serves.