Meeker board declares financial emergency

MEEKER I In meetings Feb. 2 and 16, the Meeker School Board discussed, among other items, the declaration of financial exigency and the possibility of a staff reduction, student expulsions, MAPS testing results, policy changes in interscholastic athletics and changes in personnel.
With a 10 percent decrease in state funding for the district’s budget, an “emergency financial exigency” was declared by the board at the Feb. 16 meeting. Superintendent Doug Pfau described the financial exigency…