Council on Aging – Good Financial Footing – Ukulele Problem Solved
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Various programs, projects, grants, and budget items were discussed during the meeting. Senior Director Mike Ellis stated, “I feel like we’ve never been in a better financial footing than we are today. I feel like we’ve never been in better financial footing than we are today. And not that we’re a business looking to make a profit or have food taxes or, but the beautiful thing about this is it gives us a little bit of flexibility to add more programming and buy more things to support our classes. For example, we started a ukulele class here at the Gardner Senior Center. It was filled. We lent out all of the ukuleles that we bought for the purpose of lending them out. They’re all out on the street and people are using them. We had a ukulele problem and the instructors had indicated for people that attended that don’t play ukulele, but could we support that with some percussion instruments?” Ellis spoke about other instruments and other items obtained for the use of members of the Senior Center. The Director went over various programs and services in detail.