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Knoxville Close to Solving Cemetery Shortfall
The Knoxville City Council is another step away from shoring up a brewing financial shortfall in one area of the city's operations.

Aldermen Monday night voted to tentatively accept a laundry list of fee increases in the city's cemetery, from grave openings and the sale of plots, to burials of both bodies and urns, all because city officials say the cemetery fund has lost about $40,000 in at least five years.

Alderman Rob Derham made the motion to approve most of the fee increases.

"$600 for normal burial, $700 for weekends, and after 2:30 both go up in price, and disinterment for $1,200, burial of urns for $300, and the urns interred into headstones shall be $200."

If approved in February, the fees could be effective in March, which also would include the purchase of a plot in the city's cemetery from $400, to $650.

Aldermen Monday night also approved appointing Jim McGovern to a seat on the City Council from the First Ward, replacing Lester Naslund, who moved out of town.

McGovern is running unopposed for that seat in the April election.
01 19 11 by Newsroom
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