MEEKER | Meeker’s Board of Trustees spent significant time at the May 6 board meeting discussing options for raising the town’s water rates.
In a previous meeting in April, Town Administrator Mandi Etheridge told the board that rate increases are necessary to cover the costs of repairs and replacement of aging infrastructure (the Garfield Street water line, currently being replaced, is over 100 years old) and to provide the matching funds for grants to pay…