Service Title: Multipurpose Senior Center

Definition:  A multipurpose senior center is defined as a community facility with regular operating hours and staff that provide for a broad spectrum of health, social, nutritional and education services and recreational activities for older persons.  Funds may be awarded to a public or non-profit organization for the operation of a facility that meets federal, state and local regulations and/or ordinances, which serves as a multipurpose senior center.

Multipurpose Senior Center operations funding shall not exceed 25% of the total Agency on Aging funding received.

1. Service Activities: The costs associated with the day-to-day physical operation of a facility that serves as a multipurpose senior center, including equipment and the professional and technical personnel of a multipurpose senior center necessary for its operation.
2. Unit of Service: There is no unit of service measurement for the operation of a facility other than the quarterly reporting of each facility receiving funding for this service activity.
3. Service Standards:
   a) The recipient of any multipurpose senior center award must comply with all applicable state and local health, fire, safety, building, zoning and sanitation laws, ordinances and codes.
   
   b) The recipient of any multipurpose senior center award must install, in consultation with state or local fire authorities, an adequate number of smoke detectors in the facility.
   
   c) The recipient of any multipurpose senior center award must have a plan for assuring the safety of older persons in a natural disaster or other safety threatening situation.
   
   d) In a facility that is shared with other age groups, funds received under Title III may support only:  That part of the facility used by older persons; or a proportionate share of the costs based on the extent of use of the facility by older persons.
   
   e) A multipurpose senior center program must be operated in the facility.
   
   f) The facility will not be used and is not intended to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship.
   
   g) Any laborer or mechanic employed by any contractor or subcontractor in the performance of work on the facility will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing for similar work in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Act of March 3, 1931 (40 U.S.C. 276A-5, commonly known as the Davis-Bacon Act), and the Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor standards specified in this clause, the authority and functions set forth in reorganization plan numbered 14 of 1950 (15 CFR 3176;64 Stat. 1267) and Section 2 of the Act of June 13, 1934 (40 U.S.S. 276c)
4. Service Standards (other): Reserved (Please refer to complete standard)