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Copperton workshop probes cemetery governance, term limits and rising interment costs
Summary
Council workshop focused on Copperton Cemetery governance and operations: volunteers urged keeping experienced board members, staff and legal counsel discussed open-meetings constraints, and board members proposed increasing plot/interment fees to cover expensive equipment rentals and limited endowment funds.
At a July 16 workshop, the Copperton Town Council and cemetery volunteers discussed several potential changes to the town's cemetery ordinance and fee structure as trustees seek to sustain burials and maintenance with a small endowment and volunteer labor.
Tessa, who chairs the cemetery board, summarized the board's work on mapping, record-keeping and interments and said long-standing volunteers did not want to leave service: "We still have our same 3 individuals on the cemetery board that we've had since the cemetery board was created," she said. The board and council debated whether to keep term limits and whether a council member should be required to chair…
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