San Juan Basin Area Agency on Aging to Disband in Face of ‘Insurmountable’ Corrective Action Plan

Senior services in five counties remain in place during program transition
The Silverton Senior Center Photo by DeAnne Gallegos
The Silverton Senior Center Photo by DeAnne Gallegos

After months of administrative problems and repeated failures to comply with a state corrective action plan, the board of the San Juan Basin Area Agency on Aging voted earlier this month to voluntarily relinquish its designation, becoming the first agency in Colorado to do so.

“This was a first, really – that number of delinquencies and missed deadlines. This does not typically happen across the st…