Cunningham sworn in as newest Ewing village board member

A longtime Ewing public servant was recognized during the board of trustees' Dec. 14 meeting at city hall.

Chairman James Ramold thanked Bill Graber for 20 years of service to the community.

"My last day and I show up late," Graber joked.

The board reorganized during the meeting and swore in its newly-elected trustee, Katie Cunningam.

Each trustee will oversee a specific department. Cunningham will handle parks; Kane Fry streets; Dustin Wright, water and sewer; cemetery, Ramold; and dump, Dustin Jorgensen.

McNally Law Office will be retained as the village attorney; "Summerland Advocate-Messenger," legal newspaper; Dana F. Cole and Company, accountant; The Ewing Bank, bank; and Miller & Associates, engineer.

Water and sewer rates were amended with the approval of Ordinance No. 441. All rate increases will be effect Jan. 1.

New rates will be a flat rate per hookup, with a one-inch meter cost of $23.50; one-and-one-half-inch meter cost, $36.00; two-inch meter cost, $47 and three-inch meter cost, $66.

The per gallon rate will increase to $1.50 per 1,000 gallons of use.

Sewer rates will increase to $35 per hookup.

In other business, trustees:

• appointed Sharon Swails as the fair housing representative for the village for the duplex project;

• approved a bid from Boyd's Electric to install outside lights on the fire hall;

• learned the Ewing American Legion Post will donate folding tables and chairs to the village; and

• heard the shop class, along with instructor Michael Odell, will work on a gazebo project for the cemetery. Ramold said the class will work on the picnic shelter when it has time.