METER READERS? County officials may soon follow...

METER READERS? County officials may soon follow a foreign ruler. County supervisors are expected to agree today to study use of the metric system for some functions. It’s mainly to prepare for a federal switch to metric in 1996 for highway projects. . . . For example, new street widths would be designed in meters instead of feet. County public works director W.L. Zaun sees no problem: “It’s a matter of deciding you are going to make the change and doing it.”