Senior Center requests ADA door replacements, kitchen equipment and security upgrades

Jan 6, 2026

Senior Center Director Nancy Borthwick asked the board to add a budget line for kitchen equipment and to replace heavy inward‑opening bathroom doors with lighter, outward‑opening ADA‑compliant doors; she provided quotes and expects county maintenance to do installations.

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Nancy Borthwick, director of the Senior Center, asked the commissioners to add a line item to the department budget for miscellaneous kitchen equipment not covered by Eldercare and raised safety and accessibility concerns about the bathroom doors, which "currently open inward and are very heavy" and have handles that are not ADA‑compliant.

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