WESTMINSTER

The City Council has failed to reach an agreement on the future of a proposed $12-million community center. The center will have a banquet hall and a theater to take the place of the demolished Hoover Auditorium. At a three-hour meeting Thursday, the council discussed a bid for the feasibility study but did not agree upon any action. The project has been discussed for 12 years and has cost the city $1 million in planning expenses.

The proposed center would be owned by the city, but the nonprofit Foundation for the Arts would rent the property and run the theater with volunteers.

“The council should stop playing games,” said Sondra Evans, a member of the foundation. “A big community contingency has wanted this for years. . . . But any time something happened in the city, they put it on the back burner.”

Countered Robert Crossley, a member of the Cultural Arts Commission: “Even before the [Hefley Street] water tank rupture, the city couldn’t afford it. The city doesn’t have the money.” Discussion of the project will continue at Tuesday’s 7 p.m. City Council meeting.