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Council weighs cemetery endowment options; staff to return with repayment and sell-back details

Highland City Council · February 3, 2026
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Summary

City staff and Zions Public Finance presented a cemetery perpetual-care study showing several fee scenarios. Council favored a plan that repays past general-fund and parks capital contributions while raising plot and opening/closing fees to build an endowment for long-term maintenance.

Highland City held a work session on Feb. 3 to review a cemetery perpetual-care study prepared with Zions Public Finance. The study modeled multiple scenarios to build an endowment intended to fund long-term cemetery maintenance and capital needs once plot sales decline.

Zions presented four scenarios. The staff-preferred Scenario 2 would repay general-fund and parks-capital contributions (spread over multiple years) and raise…

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