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Riverside César Chávez Community Center to receive $25 million in renovations

Riverside state assemblymember Jose Medina speaking during a July 1, 2022 ceremony that was commemorating $25 million that will be going towards renovating the Riverside César Chávez Community Center.
Jonathan Linden
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Riverside state assemblymember Jose Medina speaking during a July 1, 2022 ceremony that was commemorating $25 million that will be going towards renovating the Riverside César Chávez Community Center.

Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom signed off on the state's $308 billion budget, with some of those funds now heading towards a Riverside community center.

$25 million from the state budget will be going towards the renovation of the César Chávez Community Center in Riverside, which is nearly 100 years old and owned by the city. "This building is a beautiful architectural masterpiece, but it's old, and there's been very little renovation," said Riverside Arts Academy (RAA) president Collette Lee.

The RAA offers over ten free classes and programs at the community center, including a youth orchestra, a Saturday choir program, and a children's mariachi group. "So our program is about changing lives, but we use music as that instrument of change," Lee said.

Lee says there are no set renovation plans for the community center, but that they have some key things that they'd like to improve."We're looking at the auditorium, we're looking at renovating the dressing rooms, the lighting system, putting a soundboard in," Lee said. "We'd like to have practice rooms, piano labs, those types of things that really make a difference."

The $25 million in renovations funds were advocated for by Riverside Assemblymember Jose Media, who also helped obtain an additional $220 million for four other projects within his district.

Jonathan Linden was a reporter at 91.9 KVCR in San Bernardino, California. He joined KVCR in July 2021 and served with the station till October 2022.