Bluffton council will consider action on Monday to develop a plan to renovation the Shannon Cemetery on Jefferson Street.

As the oldest cemetery in the village, it has fallen into disrepair over the recent decades. Richard Boehr approached the village with a plan to renovation the property. His proposal is to create a park on the land.

The cemetery action is one of several items on Monday’s council agenda. The complete agenda is in the attachment at the bottom of this story.

Officers of the Bluffton Elementary PTO for 2013-14 have been named. Those officers follow:

Village of Bluffton AEP customers received a letter last week explaining a government Electricl Aggregation Program that will affect all residents. Simply put, local officials bring citizens together to gain group buying boywer for the purchase of competitively-priced electricy from a retail electric generation supplier.

Bluffton council meets on July 22 and several sidewalk related issues are on the agenda. To review council's entire agenda, open the attachment at the bottom of this story.

With the Village of Bluffton's new attention to sidewalk repair and replacement, The Icon provides several  bits of information that will answer questions about the sidewalk ordinance.

Here are four links concerning sidewalks.

Village of Bluffton website

2013 Sidewalk Legislation

Sidewalk Policy and Specifications

The Bluffton school board will act on approving $13,376,677 in appropriations for 2013-14 during its July 17 school board meeting.

The meeting was originally set for July 15, but was moved to Wednesday night. In addition to annual appropriations the board will act on several contracts, substitute teacher contracts and additional action require prior to the start of a new school year.

One student teacher assignment will be acted upon. Abbie Richer, Bluffton University student, will student teach with Terri Steinmetz Sept. 16 to Dec. 11.

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