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Council hears renewed push to operationalize Snyderville Basin Cemetery District

Summit County Council · February 22, 2023
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County staff and community planner Krista Cassidy told the council the Snyderville Basin Cemetery District exists 'on paper' and urged adopting a governing ordinance, appointing trustees and evaluating financing (mill levy or fees) and potential sites to meet a local burial shortage.

County legal staff and community advocates renewed a request that the Summit County Council move forward to operationalize the Snyderville Basin Cemetery District, an entity created by voter approval in 2012 but not yet funded or staffed.

Ryan Stack reviewed the legal history: the district was set up after a 2012 council resolution and voter action and formally incorporated in 2013, but no board of trustees has been appointed and no governing ordinance has been adopted. Stack said the…

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