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Hampden Select Board flags senior-center repairs, may add warrant article for town meeting
Summary
Select Board members said the senior center needs capital repairs — from toilets to windows — and discussed placing a placeholder article on the warrant for town meeting to fund necessary work.
Officials told the Select Board Jan. 21 that the senior center requires capital repairs, and the board discussed adding a warrant article for town meeting to fund some upgrades.
A Select Board member relayed comments from the Council on Aging, saying, “The toilets are too low for some seniors,” and that there are accessibility and facility concerns that have come to light. The board discussed possible repair costs: staff estimated basic bathroom repairs might be on the order of $30,000, while more extensive work — including window replacement — would be more expensive. The transcript records that a previously proposed window funding request had been cut from a larger program earlier because the state did not fund that line item.
Board members noted the senior center’s program-space constraints if more extensive accessibility renovations (such as relocating bathrooms to meet ADA standards) were pursued. They discussed staging potential capital articles, from modest bathroom repairs to larger window replacement projects, and agreed that a placeholder article would be appropriate for the upcoming town meeting.
No formal appropriation was voted at the meeting; the board asked staff to prepare a potential warrant article and to return with more precise cost estimates prior to the warrant’s finalization.
Ending: Staff will prepare a placeholder warrant article for senior-center capital repairs and will return to the board with refined cost estimates before the town meeting.
