Analysis: Town and Schools

Council on Aging — meetings

Coming up

Nothing on the calendar for a future date. The site was last updated 2026-10-24; a meeting noticed since then appears when it is next built.

Likely next meeting · our estimate

Tue, Nov 10, 2026, usually 9:30 amin 17 days

It usually meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Nothing is posted yet.

This guess would have been right 11 of 12 times over the last year.

How this is worked out

Read off the dates this board has met, not from anything it published. 11 of its 13 meetings in the year to 2026-10-24 fell on that pattern; the last was Tue, Oct 20, 2026.

The test: after each meeting in the last year we named the next date from what was known that day. The board met on the date named 11 of 12 times, and its actual next meeting came within a week of it 12 times.

We show an estimate only when both are at least 70% over at least 6 tries, and the board has met recently. That threshold is our choice, not a rule anybody published. A posted agenda always replaces this card; the Open Meeting Law requires notice 48 hours ahead, not counting weekends and holidays. Worked out as of 2026-10-24.

Every meeting, newest first

dateour minutesrecordingagendaofficial minutes
Oct 20 2026needs videonot availableagendanot available
Oct 13 2026Council on Aging sent a member's seven bylaw-change proposals to a four-member subcommittee and backed an architect study and emergency shower. · 3 votesvideoagendanot available
Sep 8 2026Council on Aging agreed to pursue a capital-plan funding request for the senior center's parking lot redesign · 1 votesvideoagendanot available
Aug 11 2026Board urges seniors to apply for tax exemptions by the deadline; flags no written policy for its own gift fund · 0 votesvideoagendaMISSING
Jul 14 2026COA privately funds two summer concerts after override cut town band; explores senior outreach networks. · 0 votes · 6 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Jun 9 2026COA forms a subcommittee to push the Select Board for mail-in ballots for homebound seniors · 5 votes · 5 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
May 12 2026Board nominates new chair/vice chair for July as a resident's letter warns the override will hurt homebound seniors · 3 votes · 1 difference from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Apr 14 2026COA found the 41A property tax deferral program missing from the town website weeks before the override vote · 3 votes · 6 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Mar 10 2026Council on Aging hired a new full-time outreach worker and began setting rules for honorary board membership. · 1 votes · 6 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Feb 10 2026State Reps Kushmerick and Scarsdale briefed the COA on caregiver legislation, grants, and school/healthcare funding fights. · 0 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Jan 13 2026COA informally backs pairing seniors with students in schools; board takes over minute-taking to ease staff load · 2 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Dec 9 2025Board voted to study creating an assistant director role while pushing ahead to fill Pauline's departing post · 3 votes · 1 difference from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Nov 18 2025Board informally opposed the town's move to mail-free warrants ahead of that night's town meeting vote · 1 votes · 7 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Oct 14 2025Town-proposed bylaw rewrite would blend the COA director's duties into the board's; feedback due by Dec. 2 · 2 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Sep 9 2025Board member says school district left ~$600,000 of the override-funded FY25 budget unspent · 1 votes · 6 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Aug 12 2025Senior center elevator project ruled out as infeasible; committee to seek input on 10-year senior needs plan · 0 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Jul 8 2025Council weighs waiving building permit fees for seniors on small home repairs; no vote taken · 0 votes · 3 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Jun 10 2025Board voted to study installing a small lift to reach unused upstairs rooms at Eagle House. · 2 votes · 3 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
May 13 2025COA voted to formally oppose turning Memorial Drive into green space, citing parking and safety impacts. · 1 votes · 4 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Apr 8 2025COA votes to request a second-floor elevator/lift feasibility study for the FY27 town capital plan · 1 votes · 2 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Mar 11 2025Council on Aging heard facilities, sand-program and Fire Dept staffing updates; only minutes fix and adjournment voted. · 0 votes · 2 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Feb 11 2025Council on Aging heard the plan for a new town hall and Ritter building renovation; only minutes and adjournment were voted. · 0 votes · 3 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Jan 14 2025Lunenburg senior tax relief was signed into law Jan 6; COA also approved a letter urging Mark Connect to add Worcester hospital rides. · 2 votes · 2 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Dec 10 2024Council on Aging welcomed new director Deborah Goodel and heard the FY26 budget outlook is bleak, with no new hires or hours. · 0 votes · 6 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Nov 12 2024Council on Aging agreed to draft a petition for Mart Connect rides to Worcester hospitals and heard its cost per user is about a dollar a day. · 1 votes · 1 difference from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Oct 8 2024needs videoMISSINGagendaminutes
Sep 10 2024Council on Aging voted to ask that a COA member take an active part in interviewing the new director. · 1 votes · 9 differences from the official minutesvideoagendaminutes
Aug 13 2024needs videoMISSINGagendaminutes
Jul 16 2024needs videoMISSINGagendaminutes
Jun 11 2024needs videoMISSINGagendaminutes
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Mar 12 2024needs videoMISSINGagendaminutes
Feb 20 2024needs videoMISSINGagendaminutes
Feb 13 2024needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
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Dec 12 2023needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Nov 14 2023needs videoMISSINGagendaMISSING
Oct 10 2023needs videoMISSINGagendaminutes
Sep 12 2023needs videoMISSINGagendaminutes

40 meetings, by today’s date rather than the day the site was built — so a meeting moves here on its own. Which are missing a record: missing records. For a program, every agenda and set of minutes as one text file: /minutes/council-on-aging.txt.

As of 2026-10-24. All boards.

What changed

Version 15 — updated September 20, 2026