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Town of Cary · Senior Advisory Board
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 at 12:00 pm · Virtual / Conference Room 11130, Call-in information will be available on agenda, For in person attendance: 316 N. Academy Street, Cary, NC 27513

Advisory board meeting Health and human servicesPublic facilities

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What's on this agenda

Cary's Senior Advisory Board takes up two informational items at its April 1 meeting: an update on the annual assessment required to keep the Cary Senior Center's accreditation, and a rundown of the center's engagement opportunities for seniors in April. Neither item is a vote or a recommendation to the town council; both are staff briefings from Michelle Barrett, the town's program manager for Seniors and Aging.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

Barrett walked the board through results from the Senior Center's annual assessment, a requirement for keeping its accreditation, and said 486 people completed the survey. Members and Barrett discussed a past Cary bond and whether a future one could fund another senior center or renovations to the current one, along with rental housing options for seniors, how seniors use technology, and difficulties with the town's Rectrac registration system. The assessment turned up requests for assisted listening devices, which Barrett said the center has started providing. Members also discussed using The Hive for senior programming.

Barrett then previewed April's engagement opportunities for seniors. In staff liaison comments, she described a new Cary police detective assigned to scams and fraud targeting seniors and a project pairing a low-vision specialist's graduate students with universal design in homes. The board adopted its agenda and approved its March 4 minutes without objection, and adjourned at 1:18 p.m.

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Agenda items (3)

Other · 1Staff or committee report · 1Presentation · 1
  1. For any public interested in listening to the meeting, please call 1-650-479-3207, and enter access code (2555 799 3979) and password (85232375), followed by # when prompted.
    Other
  2. 1. Senior Center Assessment Update
    Staff or committee report Health and human servicesPublic facilities
    Speaker: Michelle Barrett, Staff Liaison
  3. 2. April Engagement Opportunities
    Presentation Health and human services
    Speaker: Michelle Barrett, Staff Liaison

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