The Meeker Town Board of Trustees this week voted unanimously to set a public hearing for the proposed annexation of property around the Meeker Lake.
The Trustees decided on 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 28, at the Meeker Town Hall as the date for the public hearing on the annexation.
Town Administrator Dickie Walton said the proposal is to annex eight square miles around the Meeker Lake area.
The annexation would include all of Section 19, part of Section 20, all of Sections 23, 24, 25, 26, 31, 35, 36 and part of 32.
Town officials said there are approximately 348 property owners within the boundaries of the proposed annexation.
Legal counsel James Hodgens explained each one of those property owners must be notified of the public hearing within a minimum of 14 days and a maximum of 30 days of the public hearing.
“The proposed annexation the town is seeking is to protect our borders,” Walton said previously. Walton has pointed out that April Burns, an economist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recommended the guidelines for the borders of the proposed annexation.
The Trustees also approved a supplemental budget for the 2020-2021 Fiscal Year totaling $137,000.
They reviewed and discussed the proposed 2021-2022 budget that totals $736,525, only about $2,000 more than the current budget. Trustees took no action on the budget.
In other action, they approved the mandatory increase of the Town’s contribution of retirement from 5.88 percent to 8.56 percent on the Actuarial Valuation of funding requirements for the town’s full time employees.
“The proposed annexation the town is seeking is to protect our borders,” Walton said previously.