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Senate committee hears bill to let Clearwater Cemetery District drop Ohio Township
Summary
Supporters told the Senate Committee on Local Government that SB 396 would let the Clearwater Cemetery District remove Ohio Township from its territory, reduce the board to three trustees and ease a disproportionate tax burden, while preserving cemetery access and maintenance; the committee took testimony but did not vote.
The Senate Committee on Local Government heard testimony on SB 396, a bill that would authorize the Clearwater Cemetery District in Sedgwick County to remove Ohio Township from the district and reorganize the board of trustees into a three-member panel, proponents said.
David Loes, a member of the Clearwater Cemetery District board representing Ohio Township, told the committee the township’s residents “pay disproportionately high share of taxes, about 27%,” while accounting for “about 2%” of the district’s operating costs and services. He said Knoll Cemetery in Ohio Township is largely inactive and that the district has substantial reserves, which his written materials put at roughly $500,000 in cash assets and about a $47,000 surplus. “This bill represents a good faith effort to achieve that outcome for the taxpayers,”…
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