The Midway City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Monday that updates the city’s current interment policy to accommodate more burials per plot. The new rules allow two cremains to be interred in one grave space if the first is placed at least 12 inches from the headstone and the second is towards the foot of the grave. One regular burial and one cremain can also occupy the same grave plot, provided the regular burial occurs first. In both situations, proper identification of both interments must appear on the memorial at the grave site. Public Works Supervisor Nelson Wright said funeral homes can place any amount of cremations in a casket, but separate interments are regulated differently. ARPA funds for new communication system The council also unanimously approved spending $135,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds for the $1.1 million upgrade of Woodford County’s first responder communication system. The county and City of Versailles will also help pay for the project. “We really have the best first responders in Kentucky,” Mayor Grayson Vandegrift said. “It’s phenomenal, the job you all do.” During closing thoughts, Councilmember Steve Simoff thanked Bryan Lynch for donating fencing for the new playground planned for South Gratz Street near Midway University’s softball field. Lynch’s donation will save the project effort thousands of dollars, Simoff said. Equipment for the installment has been ordered and is expected to arrive around next May. Simoff has personally raised more than $30,000 for the project. Councilmember Sara Hicks encouraged Midway citizens to show up at the polls on Election Day. “I just want to encourage all our citizens to go out and vote tomorrow, and eat pancakes at the (Midway) Christian Church,” Hicks said. Vandegrift, who is running for the 56th state House seat held by Rep. Dan Fister, said he believes Midway has one of the highest voter turnouts in the state, and encouraged city residents to prove him right. Midway’s Northside Elementary was the site of one of four voting centers around the county Tuesday.