Butler County Commissioner Jim Eckstein on Monday continued his battle with the county Area Agency on Aging about senior centers.

Eckstein said at the commissioners meeting that the agency is doing a disservice to seniors by not adequately addressing attendance issues at the 10 sites.

“I know we didn’t do enough to increase attendance,” he said.

Eckstein said any talk of possible consolidation of the centers should be tabled for a year.

“We’re putting seniors through a lot of turmoil,” he said.

Although Beth Herold, agency administrator, said she would be sending information regarding efforts in evaluating senior services to Eckstein’s office, he continued to deride the evaluation process.

“This has been a real detriment to the seniors,” Eckstein said.

The agency is surveying seniors across the county about center use.

Herold said in an interview she sent Eckstein’s office a message earlier this month that information would be sent this week.

“I never heard back from them,” she said.

County Commissioner Bill McCarrier, board chairman, stressed during the meeting no decisions have been made about what to do about maintaining or consolidating centers.

Eckstein also chided the agency advisory board and its liaison McCarrier for not discussing the fate of senior centers at its last meeting.

“Nobody talked about the predominant issue,” he said. “I don’t understand the way this is going.”

Eckstein said he was the only one who broached the topic at the meeting.

He pointed out the advisory board instituted a three-minute public speaking limit just in time for his speech.

“Now who orchestrated that?” Eckstein asked.

McCarrier said in an interview the agency meetings didn’t previously have a policy.

“We never had public speakers before,” he said.