This notice appeared around 2:30pm March 13 on Nextdoor:

City Closes Community Center and Senior Center

Based on recommendations from Solano County, we are cancelling all programming at the City Gym and Senior Center, and closing the two facilities until March 31st. The City will continue to post updates about COVID-19 on the website at www.ci.benicia.ca.us/coronavirus.

In a March 12 press release, the City of Benicia announced detailed closures and postponements:

In response to the guidelines, the City of Benicia has canceled or postponed the following:

• All senior activities at the Benicia Senior Center will be cancelled from March 13 – March 31, 2020 except for the Meals on Wheels program on Friday, March 13. Staff is working with Solano County to provide home delivery of Meals on Wheels beginning Monday, March 16.
• Due to the difficulty in achieving recommended social distancing, the following meetings or events have been canceled through March 31
  • Benicia Public Library:
    • After School Zone, all storytimes, all book clubs, art gallery
      receptions, board games evenings, ESL classes, GED
      classes, Great Decisions discussions, Language Lab,
      Resume & Career Counseling, Technology Help, Teen
      Advisory Board, Writers’ Salon, Writer’s Workshop
    • March 12: Arts and Culture Commission meeting
    • March 14: Friends of the Library Book Sale
    • March 15: Three Poets Welcome Spring event
    • March 16: Art Gallery Committee meeting
    • March 17: Objective Planning Standards Stakeholder
      meeting
    • March 19: Public Art Subcommittee meeting
    • March 22: Ramana Vieira and Ensemble
    • March 29: Poet Jane Hirschfield
  • City Hall Commission Room:
    • March 16: Community Sustainability Commission meeting
    • March 25: Economic Development Board meeting

City Hall, Benicia Public Library and Benicia Community Center remain open and operational with appropriate measures in place to protect the health of staff and the community.