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Town trustees recommend pausing new perpetual-care cemetery accounts; trustees to draft warrant language
Summary
Town trustees told the Board of Selectmen that small perpetual-care cemetery accounts are shrinking in size and no longer earn enough to justify the administrative cost, and they recommended tabling action while staff and counsel draft resolution language.
Town trustees advised the Board of Selectmen that contributions to new perpetual-care cemetery accounts have fallen sharply and that the revenue from those small accounts no longer covers the cost of administering them.
The trustees presented three options discussed in a memo circulated to the board: set a minimum contribution (the trustees said a minimum would need to be about $1,800 to cover the long-term cost of one plot), convert existing perpetual-care accounts into a…
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