A member of the Meeker Town Board of Trustees announced during a special meeting this week of his plans to resign later this month.
Trustee Billy Walker, as he was about to be appointed one of the four signatories for a REAP contract, informed the other members of his pending resignation.
Walker was elected in early 2021 without opposition to fill an unexpired term.
Asked following the meeting why he was resigning, Walker replied, “Due to personal interests.”
The Trustees voted to approve the certificate of authorized signatures naming Mayor Donna Weber as the Chief Election Official. They also named three contract signatories including Vice Mayor Aaron Head, Trustee Mike Melton and Town Administrator Jeff Wilbourn.
They approved and later signed and executed the contract for $52,826 from the Central Oklahoma Economic Development District to fund a project of chip and seal overlay of streets as outlined in the 2021-2022 REAP Fund.
With that REAP grant, they will repair a four-inch overlay of Bonnie Sue from Clarke to Curtis; S. Fowler from Johnson Street to Meeker Elementary School; Johnson Street from Koonce to McKee Street and Oak Street from Carl Hubbell to Veterans Drive, then chip and seal.
In other action, the Trustees voted to allow a building permit to Mike Kinnamon to construct a shop building at U.S. 62 and Veterans Drive.
Wilbourn explained, “It’s a shop 40 feet by 60 feet and he plans to work on semis. Everything is in order,” he advised Trustees.
“He doesn’t have all his contractors lined up yet,” Wilbourn added.
“It will be located on the southwest corner of that intersection.”
Meeting as the Public Works Authority, Trustees authorized Wilbourn to handle getting repaired the arm of the clarifier at the sewer plant. “Orr Construction Co. came out and gave us a bid of $23,000. We’re not doing that,” he assured the Trustees.
“A welder came out today and estimated it will cost between $2,500 and $3,000 and will give us a bid,” he said.
The Trustees then told him to handle it.