FLEMINGSBURG — Steps to make repairs to the Fleming County Senior Center are being made as city and county officials work together toward maintaining this helpful service.
Flemingsburg Mayor Bobby Money talked about future plans to bring new life into the community’s senior center, as the original building is beginning to show its age. Money described the building as “totally out of date.”
Among the problems the center has are the poor shape of the roofing , windows, floors and even its HVAC system. Members of the Fleming County Fiscal Court have also expressed these shortcomings in previous meetings.
“That place has been long overdue,” Money said. “It started in about 1980, or something like that, so it’s old.”
On the city’s end, Money said the council had recently authorized him to pay for the preliminary engineers study during the last council meeting, which he said has to be done before funding can be sought. The total cost of the engineers is around $31,000, according to Money, however since the senior center is owned 50-50 by the county and city, that cost is split in half between the two entities.
Funding from Community Development Block Grants are intended to be procured for the repair project.
“We’re totally going to redo it,” he said. “Everything is going to be new, except the brick walls; new flooring, new walls, new windows, new ceiling, new roof and we’ve already put in air conditioning in it.”
Money also mentioned that the plan is to also replace the center’s kitchen equipment, which serves food not only to it’s community, but also that of Mason, Lewis, Bracken and Robertson Counties.
With a facility that services a certain group of people who may need some measure of help or sense of community from time to time, Money said he is eager to renew the facility so that it may continue serving people.
“I asked the girls at Licking Valley (CAP), and they said they’ll average about 48 people everyday here, and that’s good. They get their meals, and if they can’t pay for their meals, they’re free. I think the senior center is a wonderful place.”
