Trustees approve Ute Park lease again

MEEKER | After considerable discussion, Meeker’s board of trustees approved, although not unanimously, the renewal of David Smith’s annual lease for the use of Ute Park for hay production and cattle pasture. Trustee Wendy Gutierrez expressed her opposition to renewing the lease again.
“Every day there’s a cow out there that tells the public it’s not a public park,” Gutierrez said. “I feel like the time has come that we start looking at making that…