(KLZA)-- The Auburn Board of Public Works approved a three-percent, cost of living pay increase for BPW General Manager Dave Hunter when they met December 15. 

Hunters current salary is $107,313.  

Following a presentation by Hunter on the Wink Overhead power Line,  the Board approved replacing the line with underground service.  The line is just over two-thousand feet in length and crosses private property which makes it difficult to access.  The upgrade will carry a price tag of approximately $24-thousand.