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Council weighs buying equipment or renting services after cemetery work proved inefficient; clerk proposes raising opening/closing fee
Lindell Town Council · April 2, 2025
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Summary
Officials discussed buying a 36-inch bucket ($1,800) or renting/buying a dump trailer (used ~ $10,000) to improve grave-digging operations; Speaker 1 suggested raising the cemetery opening/closing fee from $500 to $700 to offset costs.
Councilors reviewed recent cemetery maintenance challenges after staff and volunteers found town equipment slow and inefficient for digging graves. Speaker 1 said using a 36-inch bucket on a contractor’s backhoe made a two-and-a-half-hour job take about 35 minutes and proposed either buying a…
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