HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-11-2018 MinutesMOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY BOARD MINUTES
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
2:00 PM
Members Present: Judi Roland, Arnie Galli, Warren Olson and Robert Rakos
Members Absent: Jeanne Hicks
Staff Present: Craig Hudson and Immer Chevalier
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 2:04 pm by Arnie Galli
Review of Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Minutes: The October 9, 2018 Minutes were
moved for approval.
Old Business:
• Veterans Day - Cleaned the area up, put all the flags out. Craig helped with
the parade. The cemetery had a service the some Saturday. It was a busy
day at the cemetery, a lot of visitors, great end of Summer. The grass is nice
and green.
• JD Gator - The new diesel gator arrived. The trade in value for the old gator
(2008) was $4,500. New gator was $10,000. The old gator was gas, had
problems and repairing was expensive. Gators are used at the cemetery
because they are small (lighter than a truck) and have turf tires that don't do
any damage. Cemetery has 3 gators.
• Craig has been working with the Storm Department to dress up a little bit
along the road with bigger rockery and fix the storm drain in between the two
gates. Currently staff has to line trim and mow which is dangerous.
New Business:
• Pioneer Cemetery Update - Pioneer Cemetery has interpretive signs, new
path that runs from entrance to exit, redid areas around the stones, put new
rockery in and have a new gathering area. It was really well done. Still
working on having more descriptive signs regarding the parking issue.
• Brochures - Cemetery updated and printed more tri fold brochures through
GOS Printing (Warren Olson). They are useful to families when they are
gathering information.
• Decorations - People enjoy the Tree of Remembrance. Cemetery has the
Christmas lights up and cemetery staff made Christmas Wreaths to sale and
donate all the proceeds to Auburn charities. The wreaths are made from
recycled items (wires, ribbons, etc.) picked up at the cemetery. This is the way
the cemetery helps out the City with its drive to local charities.
• New Quad for Upright Memorials - Cemetery finally did the last Quad for
upright memorials in the 9th Addition. The Barnett family own about 12 graves
around where the quad was going to be set. This family wanted to have his
family on a monument so, Robert Barnett paid to have his wife and son
moved. He now has two plots on the quad and cemetery has 6 more to sell.
There is a family interested in buying two of them at the moment. They are
$6,995 per plot. Barnett bought a Monu-bench and all they wanted was just
their name on it because they got other family members adjacent to this
quad. The monument was a little over $13,000.
Reports:
• Budget Update -The last three months have been busy. The general rule is
not to do services on Sundays. There have been some exceptions when the
cemetery had a Sunday service. Maybe twice in the last 10 years.
CEMETERY MONTHLY SALES 2018
CemeterySales
September
October
November
Month -To -Date Receipts
$ 110,243.24
$ 117,738.74
$ 103,895.71
Ground Plots
14
9
7
Cremation Plots
2
2
1
Niches
3
1
1
Wishing Well
7
6
11
Extended Land Use
1
2
3
Markers
8
15
10
Graves
16
11
8
Markers
8
15
10
Niches
3
1
1
Total Placements
28
20
19
Cremation
21
14
8
Ground Burial
7
6
11
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 2:51 pm by Warren Olson.
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Craig Hudson
Cemetery Manager
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