Sudbury Council on Aging adopts five FY24 goals ahead of new center opening

SUDBURY — July 10, 2023 — Sudbury Council on Aging adopts five FY24 goals ahead of November center opening. Meeting in person for the first time since before COVID, the council voted to narrow 18 member-submitted proposals to a working five, with Chair Paul Marotta running the goal-setting session. The adopted priorities cover cooperative programming partnerships beyond the existing Framingham State and Framingham Public Library lifelong-learning collaboration; advocacy for a formal tenant operating agreement among Senior Center, Parks and Recreation and school administration users of the new building; a self-funding meals program targeting 40 to 50 lunches a day with $100,000 in Cummings Foundation kitchen equipment already routed through the Friends of Sudbury Senior Citizens; a programming budget developed with the Friends; and a written diversity, equity and inclusion policy that Vice-Chair Patricia Tabloski said is "very, very important to have on the record" for grant applications. Member Jeff, who shaped much of the partnership and meals-program discussion, warned that institutional partnerships are "a very high bar."