The Norcross City Council voted unanimously recently to approve $1,500 to purchase Cemetery Management Solution software for record keeping and to set up a separate bank account for reporting.
The software purchase is part of a larger discussion to move forward with selling the remaining lots in the Historic Norcross City Cemetery that have not been identified on the map and do not have remains in them. Potential sale price of cemetery lots may be $800 per non-resident lot and $600 per resident lot.
Rules and regulations have already been developed and approved. Melissa Zeigler, executive assistant, is a member of the Georgia Municipal Cemetery Association and she also relies on the Georgia Historic Preservation Society for recommendations and protocol.
City documents also indicate that if demand exists for additional spaces, a petition could be filed so that the city could reclaim title on abandoned grave spaces.
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