Issues concerning senior citizen complaints, a recycling fund grant and over $25,000 in approved spending dominated Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Alice Skutack represented the senior citizen community during Citizen's Communications and expressed her frustration at the lack of space for seniors in the Frank Brown Recreation Center.
According to Skutack, "not an inch" of the senior center has been designated for senior citizen use.
"One of the major concerns is that the senior citizen center appears to be predominately office space and space for OLLI," Skutack said.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University is a senior learning program processed through the university.
"Auburn's very fortunate to have a lot of great things like this, but it appears the building was built and the discussions were made with OLLI and that the design was for OLLI," Skutack said. "Now that's great, but we have to schedule senior functions around when OLLI is not having classes."
Less than half of the 8000 sq. ft. of the Recreation Center is usable space for activity and meeting rooms, Skutack said.
"A great deal of this has been miscommunication which is what I was trying to say here," Skutack said. "This was not communicated and it has not been in the newspaper. The seniors just thought that they didn't get what they were supposed to get."
In other news, the Council resolved to submit a recycling fund grant and approved new police cruisers.
A submission for a grant for the East Alabama Recycling Partnership was approved.
The Partnership is among Auburn University, City of Auburn, City of Opelika and Lee County created in 2009 to promote recycling.
"We've been very successful, in fact Governor Riley came as one of these projects to tour our recycling center one year," Duggan said. "Right now we certainly think we are doing the best job we can. And a lot of people are looking at us to see how we are doing it."
The Council also approved spending $27,005.88 for five Chevrolet Caprice Law Enforcement Sedans equipped with V-8 engines and $27,177.08 for five equipped with V-6 engines.
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