Mayor pro tem leaves gap in Meeker town board

MEEKER — He’s served on the Meeker Board of Trustees for almost five years and held the office of mayor pro tem for close to a year, but Chris Ham has never faced a public election.
As an interested citizen, he was appointed to fill an empty trustee seat. When that position came up for election, there was no one to run against him, so he kept the position.
“This isn’t the way the democratic…