Springfield city taxpayers now have a share of the cemetery business.
Aldermen voted 9-1 Tuesday night to spend nearly $400,000 to subsidize operations at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city-owned cemetery is supposed to be self-sustaining, but income is not meeting expenses, and the Houston administration wants to avoid spending down an endowment fund for the cemetery.
The mayor’s office says the city will eventually have to include cemetery operations in the city’s general budget.