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City requests reduced survey fees for small cemetery replats; commissioners approve reduced-fee approach

Bannock County Board of Commissioners · April 24, 2026
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Summary

City of Pocatello parks director asked Bannock County to lower survey/application fees for two small Rest Lawn Cemetery replats after survey costs proved high. Staff proposed a block-based fee and the board approved the approach to reduce costs while covering county expenses.

Anne Butler, parks and recreation director for the City of Pocatello, told Bannock County commissioners that the city had submitted the third and fourth plats for Rest Lawn Cemetery and that survey fees for the small, tightly spaced burial lots were much higher than expected. "So what I'm here today to ask for is just some sort of fee adjustment for those services," Butler said, noting the city followed county protocol but that surveyor fees became “quite a bit…

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