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Missouri bill would let sewer-district trustees receive up to $100 monthly
Summary
A bill sponsored by Rep. Barry Hovis would standardize trustee pay across water, sewer and reorganized sewer districts, allowing trustees to be paid up to $100 per month. The measure drew supportive testimony from district representatives and trade groups during a House Local Government committee hearing.
Representative Barry Hovis, sponsor of House Bill 148, told the House Committee on Local Government that the bill would permit reorganized sewer-district trustees to receive a monthly stipend up to $100, aligning those districts with existing provisions for water districts.
The measure matters to small communities, Hovis said, because volunteer boards sometimes struggle to recruit members for work on large projects. "We can't anybody to run for the board," Hovis said, describing a Fruitland sewer district director who told him the board paid no trustees. The bill would make compensation options…
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