07-07-1993 PINE VIEW CEMETERY COMMISSION
July 7, 1993
9:OOam
Present : Dougher, Prime, Monahan and Supt . Mosher
Six large shrubs were removed from the cemetery at the request of
families with adjacent lots . There have been no complaints . Mowing
has been kept up but now the grass is burning because of the lack
of rain.
The new man is a very good worker and we now have been told that
he is being paid $9. 31 an hour as a Labor A but does not get
benefits . This is between the Union and the Town. We are glad to
have him. The CETA workers work Monday through Thursday with
Friday as a rain day.
Betty Monahan questioned the set—up for communication in the truck
used for work at the outside cemeteries . As of this date, there is
no radio in the truck. The car phones, two, were turned in last
year and the cemetery received no credit in its equipment budget
for those phones even though they had been bought through that
budget and not through general funds . A radio was to have been
installed. Supt . Mosher was asked to press for a radio as a safety
measure as well as management tool .
A resolution was passed concerning the withholding of monies
($1500 per month at this time) to replenish the Perpetual Care
Funds which were borrowed to buy the Crematory and the new retort .
This withholding began in May.
After reviewing the years from 1974 on, the Commission is taking
the position that the Interest generated by the Perpetual Care
Funds which was placed in those Funds should, possibly, have been
used for the care of the cemeteries . The Town Board, including Dr .
Eisenhart and the current supervisor, Mr . Brandt, were in favor of
our retaining that interest to build the funds for the future .
The difference between the total interest invested in the
Perpetual Care Funds since 1974 and the capital costs of the
Crematory as it stands today is approximately $40, 000 with that
amount being owed the Funds .
It will take something over two years to make up this difference .
When that is accomplished, we could once again begin to build the
Funds still using part of the profit from the crematory as we are
doing now. Meanwhile, all interest generated by the funds will go
to care for the cemeteries . Thanks to the ownership of the
Crematory, the Town/Commission has a chance to someday put the
care of our cemeteries on a self—supporting basis .
There were 47 cremations in June showing the increasing use of our
facility and the need to renovate the old retort . This is an item
for the 1994 budget . The Commission will work with Supt . Mosher on
the budget as soon as he hears from Mr. Brandt .
Sadly, flowers are being stolen on a regular basis from Pine View .
Mr . Mosher does not think that the culprits are children. He is
working with the Sheriff' s Department to try and catch the
thieves .
Interments 2090 Cremations 8225
Lots 5940 Containers 790
Foundations 310 Misc . 145
8340 9160
Margaret A. Prime, Secretary