Butler Senior Center moving out of Tanglewood to Butler Township park building
The Butler County Area Agency on Aging’s Butler Senior Center is moving out of its longtime location in November
The Butler County Commissioners approved Butler Senior Center to temporarily move from the Tanglewood Center into Butler Township’s park building, 468 S. Duffy Road, at the during the Wednesday, Oct. 22, meeting.
The center will move again after the new senior center building at 215 N. Duffy Road is ready to open. The lease at the park building will run from Nov. 1 to June 30.
The $1,200 per month lease contains the option for month-to-month renewal after June 30 in case in the new senior center is not finished, according to the commissioners.
With the new lease complete, the commissioners approved the Tanglewood Center’s lease to be terminated at the end of October. The final rent payment was $600.
Commissioner Leslie Osche said the Tanglewood building was purchased by a religious institution.
Director Beth Herold said 63 people had already signed up for bingo, and another 50 for exercise classes at the new senior center.
The commissioners also ratified an agreement with web-based SkillUp PA, a PA Career Link program the teaches employment skills on the computer. Osche said the program is for computers the county received from grants to be deployed in the senior center.
The program is paid for by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and accessed through the Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority. There is no cost to the county for the agreement, and the length is indefinite.
