Residents who battled to keep the Queen Anne Community Center gym open have finally won. Today, the City Council voted 8-1 in favor of a plan to keep the gym open and add back 15 hours of drop-in time each week at the center.
Queen Anne Community Center gym
Councilmembers went against the mayor’s proposed budget that called for the gym to be closed and rented out as a production studio. That planned rental agreement later fell apart.
Councilman Tom Rasmussen voted against the measure as a whole since he opposed turning some space at other community centers into offices for Parks staff.