Within weeks of the soccer announcement, which led to a few news stories, the skating community descended in droves on City Council chambers and pleaded with the governing body not to cut into their rink time. “Whatever tentative agreement or whatever the city thinks they want to do has really been done behind closed doors.” “It just sparked all of the same feelings that we had in the spring and summer of 2020,” she says. Tammy Berendzen, president of the Santa Fe Skating Club, tells SFR the December announcement brought her back to that time when the city was floating the idea of permanently scrapping the ice altogether. Granted, in 2020, the city publicly revealed the rink had been in the red for some time and that turning it into a multipurpose space was a possibility. The Genoveva Chavez Community Center skating rink is open for public skating nearly every day. It was definitely news to those who spend hours at the community center’s skating rink perfecting their spins and slap shots that they would have to share the ice. Instead, officials in December posted an announcement on the City of Santa Fe’s website-also sent to reporters’ inboxes-declaring the Southside’s Genoveva Chavez Community Center as the new home of a yet-to-be-named, or formed, Major Arena Soccer League 2 team for six games a year. In retrospect, the drama started with a news release that should have stayed in someone’s Google drive. By Andy Lyman and Andrew Oxford Maat 12:00 am MST
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