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Public hearing set to decide if hospital district can change board

MEEKER I Following the departure of two of its seven board members in April 2021, the Eastern Rio Blanco Health Services District board voted in July 2021 to change the seven-person board established in 2006 to a five-person board, citing difficulty in generating interest and commitment for the volunteer board, and two of the last three election cycles being unopposed.

Colorado statute provides direction for increasing a special district board from five to seven, but…