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The Littleton City Council voted by a narrow margin to raise fees 20 percent, or $30 a year, for sewer treatment plant users outside the city and zero percent for ones inside the city limits.

The decision will affect homeowners in areas of unincorporated South Jeffco despite the fact that they have no representation on the Littleton council.

The council also voted to raise tap fees for builders inside the city from $2,500 to $5,000 and outside the city from $2,828 to $5,656, except for projects that have site plans approved by Oct. 15.

Jeffco teachers have called for a “timeout” on new programs for one school year in a resolution adopted April 4 by 155 members of the Representative Council of the Jefferson County Education Association.

“Teachers are overloaded with well-meaning but counterproductive district mandates that are getting in the way of our efforts to effectively plan and teach,” JCEA President Nancy Henderson says in a statement.

The resolution asks the school district to “focus its resources” on completing the curriculum alignment project.

The Evergreen Library remained closed all day Monday, April 14, as workers labored to repair a broken water main beneath the parking lot.

About 7:30 a.m., a delivery driver noticed water furiously boiling up from the pavement through an in-line main valve about 100 feet from the library’s main entrance.

“It was spraying up about 6 inches and washing down the parking lot into the creek,” said grounds supervisor Al Santangelo. “I’ve been here 14 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this here before.”

At its regular meeting at El Rancho on April 4, the Rotary Club of Evergreen served up laughter, good fellowship and a chance to hear five candidates for the Evergreen Fire Protection District board speak their piece.