The Salt Lake County Council at its meeting on Tuesday said potential options and solutions will be explored with community partners before any final decisions are made to permanently close the Tenth East Senior Center in Salt Lake City.

The County Council’s slight Republican majority voted 5-4 along party lines earlier this month in favor of recommending the closure of the facility, after $10 million in renovation efforts to reconstruct the aging building began in September.

“Last week, our council had discussed the senior center a little bit more and talked about how we needed to look into maybe some other options,” said Salt Lake County Councilwoman Aimee Winder Newton, at Tuesday’s meeting.

Winder Newton proposed closing the facility during the council’s Nov. 4 meeting as Salt Lake

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