Leaders of the Harahan Senior Center updated the City Council on operations, fundraising and renovations June 26 and asked for clearer monthly accounting of the center's designated funds.

Richard Kiddock, who identified himself as running the senior center since March, said volunteers have served more than 2,000 meals and run daily programming, rentals and special events. Kiddock asked for a report showing monthly expenditures and remaining funds from the center's $40,000 city budget. Clerk Carrie Hustis and Finance Director Todd Turnion agreed to provide budget-versus-actual monthly or quarterly reports to the center and said staff would supply line-item details of repairs and maintenance expenditures.

Kiddock and volunteers described building repairs underway after a recent renovation, including roof-leak repairs by the contractor Alcor Sales Company; the council said warranty work on the renovation should not be charged to the senior center's operating budget.

Council members said rental revenues since the center's management changed flow through Harahan Senior Center, Inc., and that the group has raised several thousand dollars for operations. The center reported typical rentals and cleaning costs run about $200 per event; larger events can generate several thousand dollars.

Members of the council confirmed they had requested and secured a $50,000 legislative appropriation to remodel both bathrooms, including replacement fixtures and a new sprayed rubber floor surface better suited for seniors, and said the funding would be used to pay contractors or be administered through the city. The council also discussed replacing an aging commercial refrigerator and a dishwasher for kitchen operations.

The council advised the center to track rental revenues and expenses monthly so the city can consider a budget amendment as needed. The center also asked that the city correct how the city tax bill lists millage breakdowns; the council said the sheriff's consolidated tax bill previously omitted the city line-item but would be corrected.