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MEEKER | The Meeker School District Board of Education met Monday, Dec. 14 to take care of a variety of business items. First up was the approval of new hire Claudia Mosher as Barone Middle School’s paraprofessional interventionist, followed by an informative presentation from Torrie Gerloff, who interned at MHS for 15 weeks. Gerloff taught business English and assisted with US literature and college composition courses under the direction of Kathleen Kelley.
“I think what I took away the most from having Mrs. Kelley be my mentor teacher is that building relationships is key to teaching,” Gerloff said.
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RBC | Fourteen days of vacation at the beach whizzes by at warp speed, but enduring 14 days of stay-at-home quarantine due to COVID is almost as much fun as watching paint dry. Quarantines are one of the oldest and simplest tools for slowing the spread of contagious disease, but determining the ideal length of a quarantine is not an exact science when it comes to new viruses.
Some viruses, like measles, are highly contagious just prior to the onset of symptoms. Others are most contagious several days after symptoms appear. Still others are spread by asymptomatic carriers. It’s believed COVID-19 has all those hallmarks, prompting the 14-day recommended quarantine from the time of known exposure to a person who has tested positive.
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RBC | Rio Blanco County’s proposed 2021 budget is set for adoption by the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. During work session Tuesday the board reviewed the budget with Budget and Finance Director Janae Stanworth.
Overall revenue is projected to increase by $355,772 and expenses by $651,315 for a net difference of about $300,000. The majority of expenditures over revenue are related to capital improvement projects for Meeker Airport and Rangely Airport entitlement funds. The county plans to cover 5% of the cost of airport improvement projects and remaining costs will be covered by federal/state funding.
Severance tax revenues are projected to decrease by about 75% from 2020, Federal Mineral Lease (FML) is expected to decrease by 2%, based on the assumption that oil and gas prices will increase in 2021. If they do not, FML payments could decrease further.
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FILE - This May 4, 2020, file photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, shows the first patient enrolled in Pfizer s COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Pfizer and BioNTech say they ve won permission Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine in Britain, the worldâs first coronavirus shot thatâs backed by rigorous science and a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic. (Courtesy of University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP, File)
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