City Council member James Vacca said as a result of the city’s plan to restructure
and modernize 327 senior centers, 75 to 85 centers might be closed.
Vacca said that the city is trying to consolidate the centers as part
of the budget cuts, and that although the Council can’t block the plans
to renovate the senior centers, it can delay or change them because of
the budget cuts. The city Department of Aging is in the process of
assigning new contracts for the centers by issuing a RFP, and
the nonprofit groups that currently operate the centers will have to
compete for new contracts.