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Commission makes it official, agrees to build senior center

By J. FRANK LYNCH
jflynch@theCitizenNews.com

After years spent trying to raise money for a new building, and still little to show for it, the non-profit agency known as Fayette Senior Services may finally have found its benefactor.

Thursday night, the Fayette County Board of Commissioners made it official when it voted 4-1 to take over the planning, construction and financing of a new Senior Services Center — even though nobody knows how much it will cost.

Senior Services has been dreaming of a 21,000-square foot facility for several years, with an estimated price tag of about $3 million. The agency has raised only about a quarter of that, according to reports.

A site within the county government campus, across the parking lot from the Justice Center, had already been set aside. That’s not far from the 100-year-old house on Lee Street where Senior Services has been located since its founding.

Though the legalities must still be worked out, officials hope that funds raised privately by Senior Services can be transferred to the county and go toward the project.