NORTH BEND — B-I-N-G-O may be the name of the game directors want at the North Bend Senior Activities Center, but the first one they’ll have to play sounds more like o-r-g-a-n-i-z-a-t-i-o-n.

At a board of directors meeting at the senior center on Tuesday, volunteer Rob Moore warned the senior board it needs to concern itself first with reorganizing its structure, setting committees and giving sponsors a concrete reason to donate before worrying about the smaller details.

“What we are doing is maintaining something that can’t be maintained. We have to reorganize this in such a way that it will work,” Moore said.

 Ideas to revitalize the center, which has been failing financially and losing members, include resurrecting a Bingo game, getting a bus to pick up local seniors to visit the center for Bingo, and renting out the center for weddings and other events.

Today, the center begins offering lunches again for seniors, after a more than two-week hiatus. Fresh Beginnings Catering will prepare the meals five days a week. Former city councilor Frank Amatisto, who sat in at the meeting, said he wanted to rekindle Bingo by the first Saturday in February, but the center will need to get a new Bingo license from the state Justice Department.

“Bingo is going to help you pay the bills, but you have to get it started,” Amatisto said. “There’s a lot of people at the retirement homes who want to play Bingo.”

Moore, however, was undeterred, saying the group is missing the point. Without a stronger organization, the center can’t do one more activity and it needs a master calendar listing activities.

“I know I have an army of volunteers right now, but we need to organize them to put it out,” Moore said.

After some talk in a crowded room, filled with about 15 seniors, as well as City Administrator Jan Willis and Tammy Trost of the Evergreen Court Retirement Community in North Bend, the group followed Moore’s advice, and identified 10 potential committees.

It plans to meet again next Tuesday and at that point may assign jobs for volunteers among the committees. They range from an events and calendar committee, membership committee and building and maintenance committee to health and wellness, financial and by-law committees.

Late last year, Barry Sorenson, who is now board president, said the center was losing money and hemorrhaging members due to a number of issues including a failing heating system, a loss of activities, a near-empty bank account and former president Marian Norton doing more work than she could handle on her own. The heating system has not been repaired.

The group has elected an acting board of directors and has recruited new volunteers.

Willis commended members for their hard work to keep the center up and running.

“This was broken for a while and it’s going to take a few months to fix it, but I think you are on the right track,” she said.