New Orleans' senior centers may have to cut back on services — or even shutter their doors — through the end of the year as a result of the city's cash crunch, officials with the New Orleans Council on Aging warned.

The city is past due on nearly $200,000 in invoices that the Council on Aging submitted for work in August and September, the group's executive director, Howard Rodgers III, told the City Council at a budget hearing Tuesday.

If the city doesn't make good on those or subsequent invoices, the Council on Aging will have to limit its Meals on Wheels program — which has a waitlist of 400 individuals — to current participants, Rodgers said.

The city's 14 senior centers might also have to limit their hours or close their doors, Rodgers said. That prompted a chorus of boos from seni

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