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Historic South Coast Community Center Plans For Much-Needed Repairs To Be Completed By 2023

The Goleta Community Center is in need of repairs.
City of Goleta
The Goleta Community Center is in need of repairs.

A nearly century-old community center on the South Coast could be getting a new lease on life from much-needed repairs.

Goleta Community Center was built in 1927 – and needs two major construction projects.

They include a seismic retrofit, and work to complete disability access.

The City of Goleta’s Assistant City manager, Kristy Schmidt, says the hope is that if funding is secured then construction can begin in Spring next year.

"We use that facility as an emergency center so it is eligible for FEMA funding," she explained to KCLU.

She said that if all goes to plan with funding repairs to the building, then work can begin in 2022 and be completed in 2023.

Caroline joined KCLU in October 2020. She won LA Press Club's Audio Journalist of the Year Award for three consecutive years in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Since joining the station she's also won 11 Golden Mike Awards, 8 Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Awards, 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Writing, Diversity and Use of Sound.

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She has lived in California for twelve years and is both an American and British citizen - and a very proud mom to her daughter, Elsie.