For example, the organization’s Jefferson Senior Center and Gaylord White Senior Center were both expected to serve 75 seniors per day in 2016. And the centers provided the same services, including meals, transportation and nutrition education, among other things. One particularly egregious example centered on activities to promote health and wellness, a chief focus of senior centers. It also recommends adoption of a financing formula to ensure that senior centers all receive the same amount of spending per person served. The report concluded that the methodology used by the city to provide funding to senior centers was “inequitable, with no apparent logical basis” for most of the disparities.

Source: New York Times January 16, 2017 03:00 UTC