MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Council on Aging may soon have a new director.

At a Select Board meeting on Tuesday, June 10, Board members voted to extend an offer to Sarah Lake Landry, who is currently the administrative coordinator at the Mattapoisett Council on Aging.

Landry joined the Council on Aging in 2023 as a clerk and a receptionist after someone mentioned to her that the clerk position was available.

“It sparked my interest [and] it sort of allowed me to get into this line of public service where I could help the community,” she said.

Landry said she had originally planned to get training and outreach experience and then move into an outreach position and when the administrative coordinator position opened up, she knew she wanted to apply.

As the administrative coordinator, Landry helps coordinate programs, helps dispatch the driving program and has tried to get her hands on “as much training as possible to prepare me for not only a director position but just to be a more informed, more available representative of our community.”

Landry said she would like to expand the Council on Aging’s outreach, which she would do by showing people there’s more to the Council on Aging than a place for seniors to meet and play bingo.

“There’s more to use than that,” she said.

Landry said she would like to be more present in the community as part of her outreach efforts.

“When you recognize someone’s face and you associate them with an organization or a department, you might be more willing to introduce me to someone that you think … needs what our department does,” she said.

She would also like to develop relationships with other town departments, including the police and fire departments, and encourage community involvement.

Landry said she would like to focus on respite care and would work with other Councils on Aging to see how they are handling an increasing need for respite care, which is the individual who assists someone who is in need of care.

While Landry hasn’t worked directly with budgets, she has put together vouchers and submits payments to the accounting and treasurer’s offices.

Landry said that as a whole she would like to see the Council on Aging engage more with other members of the community

“I just feel like the more we are able to reach the individuals who are in need, whatever that looks like, the more successful we will be at helping them,” she said.