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Roosevelt City Council approves higher cemetery fees after public hearing
Summary
After a public hearing and comments from local mortuary representatives, the Roosevelt City Council approved a change to the city's cemetery fee schedule that takes effect immediately.
Roosevelt City Council members voted to raise cemetery fees following a public hearing that included support and caution from local mortuary representatives.
Council held a public hearing after Austin Babcock, cemetery manager, presented proposed resident and nonresident price increases and said the city had not updated fees in several years. "We kind of came up with these numbers ... based off of some a fee comparison that I did from kind of some random things around the state," Babcock said. He added the fee increase would not fully pay for planned cemetery expansion, saying,…
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