This week’s meeting of the City of Calhoun Board of Education included three approved investments: Two new vehicles; one for maintenance and one for student transport, a new irrigation system for the high school’s soccer fields, and a new digital safety/routing program for the city’s school buses.
The Calhoun City Council set prices for the new columbarium niches at Chandler Cemetery: 1200 dollars for city residents; 2000 dollars for non-residents. The city is allocating 50 percent of the sale price – far above state requirements – to the cemetery’s future care fund. Municipalities who have failed to fund the operation of cemeteries have realized greater expenses later. The fifty percent allocation will assure continuity of maintenance even after the cemetery no longer has available property.
