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Lamar police officers Skyler Hockett and Sarah Davis deliver presents and food to a Lamar family on Saturday morning. The family was one of 44 to receive gifts from the Lamar Shop With a Cop program. Because of the pandemic, the department chose to deliver this year rather taking kids to Walmart to shop. GLOBE | LAURIE SISK
Lamar police Chief Joe Moore is flanked by Christmas boxes loaded with gifts and food for 44 local families as he briefs his small army of law enforcement volunteers preparing to deliver the boxes Saturday morning to area homes. GLOBE | LAURIE SISK
LAMAR, Mo. â In a typical year, the Lamar Police Department would be conducting its annual Shop With a Cop program in which officers take children on their own Christmas shopping spree.
The Lamar Utility Board held its final meeting of 2020 on December 15
th by approving Resolution 20-12-05, adopting a modification to the Charter Appropriation Adjustment, an annual housekeeping action that establishes the adjustment for 2021, according to Light Plant Superintendent, Houssin Hourieh.
Since 2009, a tariff entitled “Charter Appropriation Adjustment” allows the board to recover from its customers, the expense to the board associated with the annual appropriation of electric revenues which go into the City of Lamar’s General Fund.
The calculation is based on the annual budgeted CAA amount that becomes effective on January 1
st following the December approval and the preceding 12 months of CAA energy sales from December 1 to November 30.