{"id":97347,"date":"2018-10-23T19:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T01:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ignacio-cemetery-district-requesting-mill-levy-increase\/"},"modified":"2018-10-23T19:10:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T01:10:32","slug":"ignacio-cemetery-district-requesting-mill-levy-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ignacio-cemetery-district-requesting-mill-levy-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignacio cemetery district requesting mill levy increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13bf55d2-a241-4932-8ce7-dcf822607570&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13bf55d2-a241-4932-8ce7-dcf822607570&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13bf55d2-a241-4932-8ce7-dcf822607570&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13bf55d2-a241-4932-8ce7-dcf822607570&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1600\" height=\"745\" alt=\"Residents in the Ignacio, Allison and Oxford Cemetery district will vote on a mill levy increase in the Nov. 6 general election.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Residents in the Ignacio, Allison and Oxford Cemetery district will vote on a mill levy increase in the Nov. 6 general election.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>For the first time that anyone can remember, the Ignacio, Allison, Oxford Cemetery District is requesting a mill levy increase.<\/p>\n<p>If approved by voters in the district, Ballot Issue 6D would increase the mill levy from .244 mills to .475 mills, or $3.42 annually for every $100,000 in assessed property evaluation, said Laura Whitt, treasurer for the district.<\/p>\n<p>The district provides upkeep for five cemeteries on the eastern side of the county: Ignacio East and West, Allison, Oxford and Tiffany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody wants the cemeteries to look good,\u201d she said. But like other property-taxing entities in the area, the cemetery district has seen a 39 percent decrease in mill-levy funding since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Other officers in the district are president Farren Webb, who oversees maintenance of the Oxford Cemetery, and Emma Shock, who oversees the Allison and Tiffany cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>The board tried to keep the increase as low as possible while still providing enough funding to keep the cemeteries looking nice, Whitt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>help maintain graveyards in eastern La Plata County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[308,1264],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-97347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-local-elections","tag-property-tax"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97347"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=97347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}