Arcadia's new senior center will be built at the Rose Garden at the corners of Huntington and Campus Drives. The city will start taking bids for the proposed $2.5 million, 18,000-square foot building in April. (At least 21% of the city population is over age 60.)
The new Senior Citizen Center, now in the architectural drawing stage of development will replace the Rose Garden at the corner of Huntington and Campus Drives. The center will house the administration offices of the Arcadia Parks and Recreation Department and the Historical Museum.
Senior citizens center still faces many, many obstacles. Since the formation of the Arcadia Senior Citizens' Commission in 1978 one of its goals has been to acquire or construct a senior citizens/community center.
Arcadia could build a multi-purpose Senior Citizen Center for $1.5 million plus the cost of the property, according to a report submitted to the City Council by Warren Shaw, chairman of the Arcadia Senior Citizen's Commission. The report indicated that most of the money would come from state and federal sources, but that Arcadia would need to chip in at least $225,000 of matching funds. The center is necessary, Shaw said, due to a current lack of senior citizen facilities.
Plans to build a new Arcadia Senior Center are moving forward, with studies of the center's possible role, funding for the center and scouting for a site under way.
The city has decided against trying to lease a vacated elementary school for a senior citizen center. Seniors are interested in having a drop-in center but the additional cost of leasing a school would not be justified.
Construction of a new senior center in Arcadia will be funded in part through more than $200.000 allocated from federal Community Development Block Grant funds for the 1988-89 fiscal year, not through an exchange of money with another city that would have cost Arcadia about $75,000.
An ad hoc committee of seniors plans to collect 5,000 signatures by the end of February asking the Arcadia City Council to commit itself to acquiring a senior center.
Mortgage rates for senior housing rise. City has been notified by Department of Housing and Urban Development that the mortgage rates for such projects have been raised from 9 1/4 to 11 5/8 %.
Warren Shaw has been chosen Senior Citizen of the Year. Since retiring from his position as engineer with Aerojet General, Shaw has been busy with a variety of activities including assisting seniors with their income tax returns.
City Council authorized the staff to prepare a sale agreement in the amount of $985,700 for the land to California Trinity Housing, Inc., the California borrower corporation for the Christian Senior Housing Foundation, Inc. of Decatur, Ga.
Petitions asking the Arcadia City Council to commit itself to the building of a multi-purpose senior citizens center are being circulated by the ad hoc committee of the Arcadia Senior Citizen's Commission.
Lee Lurie has been selected Arcadia Senior Citizen of the year. Lurie has been very active this past year in senior citizen projects and in the scouting program. Biographical notes are included.
The Arcadia Historical Society building was recently moved to its permanent location across from the Chamber of Commerce in Arcadia Park. The building was moved from 30 North Santa Anita Avenue to First Avenue just south of Huntington Drive.
A nationwide forgery scheme uncovered by the Arcadia Police Department has resulted in the arrest of three men at the Santa Anita Avenue branch of the Bank of America.