Good afternoon. Today is the uh in person and remote hybrid for board members and for the public. Thursday, August 28th, 2:32 p.m. at the town hall conference
room number two. In attendance, it's chair I bi rot and stona Anderson. We have Any public folks on the on the
zoom? Let me just double check one participant. Nobody. So there's no nothing for public comments. The agenda for two minutes. Uh we're going to
table that to our next meeting. Next on the agenda is reorganization of the board. So, I'm currently the chair. Do we have any volunteers to chair? Do you want to continue as chair or
would you like to give it up? Let somebody else learn some do something. I'll be a chair for one more year. can check out. So, we just need a second. Yeah.
So, you make a motion. Second. All in favor? Text in report. I gave you the vario report um for 2025.
Um it was a it didn't start until um March when we started. [Music] So far we have 21 cremations, seven bulb burials, and we're only into just hitting um September.
So we usually do anywhere from 30 to 40 a year, but we'll see with this winter. Last winter we had a lot of cremations. People died. We they were cremations. Um but they waited to the spring because it was so icy there. Yeah,
we really had a really icy winter. So we didn't really but we could have um done burial. We did in March, but it was um we thought um it was still froze. The ground was still frozen in March, but it wasn't as icy on the roads.
So, um, and we only closed it during the, um, storms that there was so much ice and snow that we couldn't, um, ourselves get in. So, then we closed the gate, um, manually. And then, um, Evan usually just goes and cleans up, um,
what DPW um, plows. So, he goes and cleans up after them. And then you got um, the deeds. So far, we got 15 lots sold this year. Um
some of those are families that bought one or two. Um and one bought three. The rest are singles. Um the paving update is basically the paving's done. um DPW
came by and told us that um they'll have some time um in the next month. So, they're going to come in and um fill the cracks in the potholes. We have a few potholes and they'll fill in the cracks for us if we wanted. So, we said yes. Um
anything could hand out like that. Well, no. Um yeah, Rich was really good. They talked to Evan and and they they agreed that and we said, "Hey, come on your own time. If you got an hour a day or an hour a week, then come in and just pick a spot and and go around and do
it." Um, and so that'll look nice. Um, cemeteries. Oh, yeah. enjoy your brother. Yeah. Yeah. And if we can just fix the potholes, a few of them, that I think that'll make a big difference, too. Um we had a the tree issue um in eight and
right next to eight, those big huge pine trees kept dropping big huge branches branches. We we really got lucky. We missed a huge branch that crashed down right next to the stones um in that first row. A um if that would have hit
the stones, if it would have been two inches um to the right and it would have taken out three stones, those stones are all like 10 grand. Yeah. They're all brand new. Um that would have cost we would have town would have had to come up with 30,000. Yeah. Or more.
Or more just to get them. That's just to buy them, get them replaced. So we just said, you know what? We don't want to keep chancing it. And we took them down. Um I'm I'm sure people will complain about that um because that's where when
we sold eight it was shady, they had trees. Um but I already put a call into one of the um local places that I get trees from and um they're going to try and find me at least four or five um the nice um cherry
trees that you go to Washington to see in the spring. They all blossom. So, if they can get us four or five, we can put them right there in that in a row in that area. Spread them out a little bit and and those will be something we could manage. Um, or have we have a local guy
that comes in and always prunes our trees and then says, "Hey, you got you got to spray this one or whatever." Um, so that'll be good. So, those are off our back. And then now I I don't think we have any tree issues. We had that one over the culvert going into the old
cemetery. It was on the wood guy's property. It came down, hit like a widow maker and leaned on another tree and then it the second storm it it had another branch come down and Evan just
went over there and cut it down. Um he he got rid of it. So that's not even a issue now. Um so that should be pretty good. I got pictures on. Yeah. Yeah,
they do. And they they really clean up their mess. I just got to um find out how much is left in our budget because that actually came out of our our yearly budget. Um so I took that out of the grounds. We had like I think 16,000 in grounds. So I probably that
was 9,000. So that kind of came out of that. I think I have plenty for the rest of the year. um until next July. I'm not worried about it because we still have other money and other line items that we can, you know, transfer over or take out
of that one to do something. Um that's that's the one I have to find out how much will it cost because I think there's in that that other section that was next to eight. We took those down too. Those pine trees, we said, why not? They're right here. Um and um so we'll
take we'll figure out how much that's going to cost and we'll either do it if we have the money in this budget, we'll probably do it this fall. If not, we'll wait till um next budget and do it in July just to get it all grounded because I think those trees, no one's going to
have those trees. They're going to have to order them and I probably won't get them till spring. So, I you can't plant the trees where the stumps are. And that's kind of in the same area, right? Um and now we won't have anything for the pi um poison ivy we have growing
there too um in that area. We kept killing it, but you know, it's so hard with the pine needles and stuff. So, it'll be nice to be able to like kill it for good and not have that be an issue. You want to go to new business?
So, the last three sections, um, I don't know if you if when you go into the cemetery, you'll see where Carl used to put all the sand, little piles of sand. Um, DPW, once again, Rich um Bozac was gracious enough to let us use Evan used
um the big huge bulldozer and he flattened all that that sand and he pushed it back. So now that's going to be our new it would be our new section 11 and then there'll be a 12 and then there'll be a 13 right where the big
sand pile is. So this winter or this fall Evan and I are going to try and find a place for that sand pile because we got to get rid of that otherwise that's like a whole section. But then our dilemma becomes we have to keep
something there for Phil. So, we're always going to have an area somewhere. We have to keep We might have to just make it in the back where, you know, we're behind the the to the back
side of that stamp pile where all the wood chips where all the wood chips. We're going to try and get rid of the wood chips. But then we're going to have probably that little square area in the back would probably always be for sand. And then we'll try to rotate it.
Exactly. Well, we still have that little part in the back on the left where we go and throw brush and stuff. He pushed all that back. He flattened it. Um, there's still a little driveway through there, so we'll always have that, too. Um,
run updates. Yeah. Okay, whatever. Um, so, so that's our dilemma. We need to get rid of that big sand pile. Ky wanted it way back. um the town gave him a hard time of calculating how much was this for that. He actually he was going to
give us money off of doing the roads for us and that would have worked out perfect, but um so we're going to try and get rid of that. Um we're working on a parking lot over by the shed in the by the garage when you first pull in the cemetery. You have our garage and our
office right there where we all park. Three cars. He's gonna um shave it down and then he's going to get millings from the um dump uh the transfer station. He'll get they'll bring us over millings and out
back here somewhere. Um we have um big telephone poles that we can use. Um he used two of them. He grabbed one small one, cut it in half, 8 feet post, and he made that for the gate to going into the um new ce the old cemetery. Yep. So,
that's gated and locked. Um, and it'll have keys for you if you have to go in and out of there. Um, yeah, at some point. Yeah. Because the weather is cool down, but I haven't heard from the guard guys, right? What happened?
Yeah. So, whenever you need to go in there, Evan made key. There's a couple spares. I told him I don't really need them because he leaves one hanging in the box, the key box. So, if any of us needed it, we could just go in there and get it. Um, he has one on his keyring
obviously because he's in there all day, all week long. Um, but when you go to do your stones, you don't want to have to keep going in the office to get a key. You can just get one for your ring. Um, and if he doesn't have a third, then um I think he I think he he made one for
you. Um, so that'll be nice. So when you park now, we won't because we're trying to keep that grass area nice nice because that's where we're going to be doing all like the Memorial Day and all that stuff. And um so if we do and
the wreaths are going to be there if we do that there. So we want to kind of make it nice and then so he's going to use make a L probably out as far as the um shed and then that'll be all milling and it'll be perfect. Yeah. and that'll
keep people from driving on it. Although he did have a problem. He literally sent me a picture. Um, so we're going through all this problem, all this work to do a nice little parking spot for us and then they had a funeral right there in one and the
funeral home. I have to write a letter to the funeral homes or contact them by email um and just give them some rules and guidelines because they're not following it. They're getting really complacent about not caring where people are parking. Now, you know how Evan is. If there's a grave right here and
there's like two feet after the grave, they're parking like right there on that. And he gets so mad and he's like, there's no reason why they don't just stay on the road. Yeah. No, no one says you have to park over. It's a funeral. The cemetery is closed. If someone can't get in, then they
shouldn't be there anyways. Yeah. Exactly. So he's he's like constantly fixing the ruts where people are go. Well, then they parked on the road on the grass all the way around two and three and then they went up on our thing
and they had cars just piled right there by the memorial by the shed and and Ev was there and Evan was like, "What in God's name are they doing?" And I was like, fact you got the water out there,
right? You could hit it if they hit that would take that out and we just fixed that for the second time because it had a leak again. So, I don't know. I think I he said Big Mike was supposed to be there at that funeral. A
woman took over. Big Mike told him it only needed one person and really they said to Evan, "I get what you're saying, but we were told that we only needed one person, but this really was big enough to where it's two." And Evan says, "Well, then you should have decided that when you were at the funeral home and
you saw all the cars going there." No, no, no, no, no. There was no funeral home. So, where did they go? It was right. You're talking that was the Yep. That was the funeral. That was it. They did not have anything. So, then you got That's why everybody just showed up
at the cemetery. That was all they did in the So, Evan's point is that it's the their responsibility, right? the funeral director to or whoever's there running the show. It's their job to tell people where to park
and we only assist if they if they come and ask us, which they didn't. So Evan went and did his thing and waited. And then when he came back from the old cemetery, it was just a show everywhere and he was just like, "Now you're ruining everything. Now I got to fix
everything." Right. Yeah. they always come with enough people. So, I think we just have to just send a nice email to these people and just say you need control the parking and we don't want any parking on any grass unless we tell you to go over
by the big, you know, it's way down by eight in the field. We give you permission to park there and that's different. Otherwise, just keep them going around, you know. And guy goes, well, you didn't have the other gate up top open. Evan goes, people ask for that
to be open. We just don't open that. You have to tell me that it's going to be a big one or you think it's it's you're going to need that other gate open. You could have all came in that way and went right around and got out the same way instead of everybody trying to crowd in one. Yeah. So they were like, "Oh, we didn't know
that." Okay. A letter will solve that. Yeah. Exactly. Um, and