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Council moves to support La Peña Cultural Center; public urges emergency funding
Summary
Multiple speakers, including La Peña's executive director and board chair, urged emergency city support to sustain the 50-year-old cultural center; the council included a La Peña budget referral on the consent calendar, which was approved.
Consolutador Hernandez, executive director of La Peña Cultural Center, and Anna Fox Hodas, the board chair, described the center's five-decade role in Berkeley and asked the council to approve emergency funding to keep programs running. "Please approve this emergency fund for La Pena," Hernandez said, emphasizing the center's community role and that the financial shortfall was a temporary aftermath of recent investments in the building.
Council members including Hahn and Humbert expressed support for the item; the mayor explained item 6 (a budget referral and technical support for La Peña) would move forward in the mid-year budget process and was being advanced on the consent calendar as step one. The council adopted the consent calendar by roll call, which included the La Peña referral and the Daniel Ellsberg street-naming referral to the Transportation & Infrastructure Commission.
