September 16 Board Meeting:

Administrator Resigns, Mayor Censured, Festival Plans Conditionally Approved

By Market Meeker · September 25, 2026 · Government

The Meeker Board of Trustees met Sept. 16 for a spcial meeting, approving several actions involving the Pumpkin Festival, Town finances, employee complaints and police matters before accepting Town Administrator Jeff Wilbourn’s resignation and formally censuring Mayor Donna Weber.

Pumpkin Festival Plans Approved, Alcohol Issue Sent to Special Meeting

Veronica Tessier, speaking for the Pumpkin Festival planning committee, appeared before the Board seeking two actions for the Oct. 24 festival: road closure and approval to sell alcohol within the festival area.

Tessier explained that alcohol would be sold by licensed vendors and confined to the festival area. Organizers were not requesting permission to serve alcohol on private church property.

During the discussion, Tessier was told a separate ordinance would need to be passed before alcohol could be permitted. She questioned the requirement, saying she had been asking the Town for more than a month what approvals would be necessary and that this was the first time she had been told another ordinance was required.

With the application deadline approaching, Tessier asked whether the Board could approve the plans subject to the alcohol ordinance being addressed at a special meeting.

Trustee Mike Orman made the motion to approve the plans subject to the ordinance issue being addressed at that special meeting.

The motion passed. Trustee Lanny Thompson was the only dissenting vote.

After the meeting, a review of the Town Code found that the existing alcohol ordinance already provides a process for events.

Section 3-105.1 prohibits drinking intoxicating liquor in public but expressly authorizes the Town Board to waive that prohibition for “specific events, or types of events,” upon proper application and under conditions established by the Board.

Section 3-105 is a separate provision addressing the location of certain alcohol establishments in relation to schools and churches.

The alcohol request was subsequently placed on the Sept. 22 special-meeting agenda.

Bookkeeping Contract Approved

The Board considered engagement letters from two bookkeeping companies before voting on a contract with One-on-One Bookkeeping.

Discussion included the amount of assistance Town Clerk Kimberly Haynes needed, the expected availability of the bookkeeper and whether the proposed arrangement would provide enough hands-on support.

The motion to approve the agreement with One-on-One Bookkeeping passed.

Board Approves Quarterly Budget Reports

The Board discussed adding regular reports showing how much of each department’s annual budget has been spent.

Trustees considered monthly versus quarterly reporting before settling on quarterly reports.

The Board approved producing a quarterly report for review during the first month following the end of each quarter.

Revised Business Permit Application Approved

Trustees reviewed an updated Town business permit application and discussed how businesses without a permanent location inside Meeker should identify where they operate.

The Board approved the revised application, including allowing “various locations throughout the city” to be listed when a business does not have a fixed location in town.

Employee Complaints Tabled for Executive-Session Consideration

Written complaints involving Town employees were also on the agenda.

Massey said complaints concerning employees should not be discussed publicly without first being properly placed on an agenda that would allow the Board to consider them in executive session.

The Board voted to table complaints involving Town employees for later consideration while allowing citizen complaints to be heard publicly that evening.
After the Board opened the floor to citizen complaints, Khrystian Crow addressed trustees about what she described as ongoing harassment and retaliation against her family. Crow said that after her husband filed a complaint, additional investigations followed and he was subsequently placed on an agenda for possible termination. She told the Board it had been “one thing after another” for her family and described the situation as causing significant stress.

Crow questioned why the complaints could not be addressed sooner and asked why an emergency meeting could not be called. Massey told Crow he had expected the complaints to be properly noticed for possible executive-session discussion that evening, but the agenda did not provide for it. He said several complaints, including those involving the Crow family, warranted serious review and consideration of possible legal ramifications.

Board Reconsiders Police Chief’s Written Reprimand

The Board returned to disciplinary action taken against the police chief at its Aug. 17 meeting.

Massey moved to rescind the written reprimand and take no disciplinary action, citing the outside investigation and its recommendation that no action be taken. Other trustees raised concerns about the underlying firearm incident and whether some response was still warranted.

The initial effort to rescind the reprimand failed.

Trustee Aaron Heard then moved to reconsider the vote, with Massey seconding. The motion to reconsider passed. The Board then returned to the proposal to rescind the written reprimand and take no action.

Town Administrator Jeff Wilbourn Resigns

The Board later entered executive session concerning Town Administrator Jeff Wilbourn.

After returning to open session, a motion was made to accept Wilbourn’s resignation.

The Board unanimously accepted the resignation, effective 30 October 2026.

Board Censures Mayor Donna Weber

Following the executive session, Massey presented a written motion to formally censure Mayor Donna Weber.

The written censure identifies three grounds for the action:

unauthorized creation and attempted implementation of a chain of command;
withholding law-enforcement investigative information from trustees; and
repeated interference with Town operations and exercise of authority assigned to the Board collectively.

Massey said Weber created an organizational chart without Board approval, distributed it to Town employees and told employees who refused to sign it that they could face consequences for insubordination.

He also alleged that Weber withheld a completed investigative report from other trustees for approximately two and a half weeks and had repeatedly exercised authority over day-to-day Town operations without authorization from the Board as a whole.

The Board approved the censure of Mayor Weber.

The censure formally records the Board’s disapproval of the conduct described in the document and directs Weber to refrain from independently establishing organizational structures, directing Town employees, threatening disciplinary consequences, withholding material municipal information from trustees or exercising authority assigned to the Board without Board authorization.

The censure does not remove Weber from office, suspend or terminate her, remove her as a trustee or change her legal status as mayor. It places the Board’s findings and directives concerning the cited conduct into the Town’s formal record.

Officer Kyle Crow to Be Reimbursed

The Board also addressed lost pay for Officer Kyle Crow.

Massey noted that the Board had previously voted unanimously to take no disciplinary action against Crow but that Crow had not yet been reimbursed for three days of unpaid suspension and additional time deducted while he attended a previous Board meeting.

Massey moved to reimburse Crow for all of the affected time.

The reimbursement was approved.

Board Approves Tires for Police Vehicles

Massey also raised the condition of tires on Meeker Police Department vehicles, reporting that wires were showing on tires being used on patrol vehicles.

The Board discussed replacing tires on all four police units through the state contract.

The Board unanimously approved replacing the tires on all four units.

Public Works Meeting Postponed

The Board determined that the Public Works Authority meeting scheduled for that evening had been improperly posted.

The Board voted to postpone the meeting so it could be properly posted.

Board Returns Sept. 22

The Board scheduled a special meeting for Sept. 22, with the Pumpkin Festival alcohol request among the items returning for consideration.

At that meeting, trustees would decide whether to allow public alcohol consumption during the festival under the Town’s existing alcohol regulations.