Joint Budget Committee to help MSD with deficit

MEEKER I Meeker School District and two other rural Colorado school districts were promised aid from the state Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee (JBC) to fix reductions in their mid-year funding.
After a grassroots lobbying effort out of Meeker and DeBeque, the JBC voted unanimously last week to sponsor legislation that would provide relief to the three districts hit hardest by the steep mid-year cuts.
Paula Stephenson of the Colorado Rural Schools Caucus credited the lobbying…