Entire List From Across City Included
Here are the results from the latest — and last — round of San Diego city budget cuts in terms of hours at Ocean Beach and Point Loma libraries and rec centers.
Point Loma
The Point Loma branch library, along with 5 others, will have its hours reduced. PL will deal with its cuts by opening only for half days on Saturdays. That will bring its operating 51 hours a week down to 47 hours.
And the Cabrillo rec center will be reduced to 40 operating hours a week, but its cuts will be smaller, because it already had less than 60 operating hours per week.
Ocean Beach
The OB library is currently operating 5 days a week, with Sunday and Monday closed. But it will soon close on a more permanent basis as its expansion gathers steam.
The OB recreation center will see its operating hours cut from 60 hours a week down to 40.
On the other hand, the mayor had proposed cutting operations for Robb Athletic Field and another eight recreation centers to 40 hours per week, but the final budget maintained their 60 weekly hours.
When these new hours and other changes go into effect is unclear, but certainly not before the final budget is voted on by city council.
Here’s the balance of an article by Tessa Balc and Dorian Hargrove at Times of San Diego from June 14, 2026:
The dust has settled from San Diego’s frantic search to fill its massive $118 million budget shortfall. Mayor Todd Gloria’s initial budget proposed sweeping cuts to libraries, parks, recreation centers and city arts programs. But the San Diego City Council’s final budget — with the help of some creative money shuffling — restored some of that funding.
With the budget battle over, residents now can review how the solution city leaders landed on will affect them. Here’s the impact on your community services once the budget takes effect July 1:
Which library branches will see reduced hours
Six libraries will have reduced hours: Central, along with branches in University Heights, Allied Gardens, La Jolla, Point Loma and Rancho Bernardo.
In all, San Diego has 36 branch libraries and the main Central Library.
Excluding University Heights and Allied Gardens, these libraries will deal with their cuts by opening only for half days on Saturdays. That will bring these libraries from operating 51 hours a week down to 47 hours.
University Heights and Allied Gardens will eliminate their Monday hours entirely. That will bring their weekly hours down from 51 to 42.5.
Seventeen other libraries across the city will maintain the same operating schedule of Tuesday through Saturday, totaling 42.5 hours.
The mayor proposed reducing library hours in North Park, Mira Mesa and Linda Vista. Those branches will remain open for 51 hours a week after the council’s revisions.
List of rec centers with fewer hours
Thirteen recreation centers will see their operating hours cut from 60 hours a week down to 40:
La Jolla
Ocean Air
Pacific Beach
North Clairemont
Ocean Beach
Canyonside
Carmel Mountain Ranch/ Sabre Springs
Hilltop
Rancho Bernardo Glassman
Scripps Ranch Community
Kearny Mesa
Allied Gardens
Tierrasanta
Three other rec centers will be reduced to 40 operating hours a week, but their cuts will be smaller, because they already had less than 60 operating hours per week:
Cabrillo
San Carlos
Serra Mesa
Rec centers in districts 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7 were all facing reductions to operating hours. Each district saw at least one center restored to 60 hours, except for District 7.
The mayor proposed cutting operations for another nine recreation centers to 40 hours per week, but the final budget maintained their 60 weekly hours:
Carmel Valley
Pacific Highlands Ranch
Robb Athletic Field
Canyonside
Doyle
Gil Johnson Mira Mesa
Hourglass Field
Nobel Athletic Fields
Standley
In the May revised budget from the mayor, he proposed that these facilities have their hours reduced to 40 hours a week.
The following rec centers — located in districts 4, 8 and 9, the lowest-income areas of the city, as well as District 3 — will see no change in operating hours:
Adams Recreation Center
Azalea Recreation Center
Balboa Park Activity Center
Bay Terraces Community & Senior Center
Black Mountain Multipurpose Center
Chollas Lake Park
City Heights Recreation Swim & Tennis Center
Colina Del Sol Recreation Center
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center
Encanto Recreation Center
Golden Hill Recreation Center
Dolores Magdaleno Memorial Recreation Center
Mid-City Gymnasium
Montgomery-Waller Recreation Center
Morley Field Sports Complex
Neal Petties Mountain View Community Center at Neal Petties Mountain View Community Park
North Park Recreation Center
Paradise Hills Recreation Center
Park de la Cruz Community Center
Penn Athletic Field
Presidio Recreation Center
Col. Irving Salomon San Ysidro Community Activity Center
San Ysidro Teen Center
San Ysidro Larsen Field Community Center
Silver Wing Recreation Center
Skyline Hills Recreation Center
Robert Egger Sr. South Bay Recreation Center
Southcrest Recreation Center
Stockton Recreation Center
Willie Henderson Sports Complex
San Diego has 60 rec centers across the city.
How much money is there for arts funding?
The city partially preserved arts funding thanks to an agreement with the private Prebys Foundation. The agreement will help fund community events and arts programs, but it represents less than what was available in the current fiscal year through the city’s three main grant programs.
This year, the city doled out $11.8 million in arts-related grants. Next year, there will be around $9 million available — including $3 million from Prebys and nearly $6 million from the city.
The budget also included $50,000 for each council district to award through arts, culture and community festivals grants. Each district has another $100,000 available in a second pot called community programs, projects and services funds.
Each councilmember can award funds from both pots to programs of their choosing.
The city and the Prebys Foundation have yet to determine how they’ll distribute grants. Officials have said Prebys will not give money to the city to hand out — the organization will deliver grants directly.
Councilmember Kent Lee, who helped spearhead the public-private partnership, said grant recipients will get less than they received in the past.
“But, now, for one, they will know they get something,” he said. “And two, it will be more predictable,” Lee said.
“All of these organizations went through this entire process already,” he said. “They were just waiting for a budget amount to determine what their funding would be when the mayor was proposing we give nothing,”
