9/10/2003 CEMETERY COMMISSION Minutes

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Cemetery Commission Meeting Minutes September 1 , 2003 Members present: Ernie Virgilio, Mike Scirpoli Others: Catherine Laurent, Mary Keleher F. Virgilio called the meeting to order at :30 p.m. The meeting began with discussion of a request from Father Tosti from Christ The Iain Parish. In his letter Father Tosti requested that a monument be placed in a section of the Great beck woods Cemetery. He would like the monument to be engTaved with the names of all the infants that are buried at the cemetery. The parish will pay for the monument and engravings. C. Laurent suggested placing the monument in a section at the north end of the cemetery. This section is not marked et. The } y Commissioners agreed. Father Tosti would like the burial fee to be waved for all infant burials, C. Laurent suggested that if a family of an infant wanted to erect their own monument they could choose to have the infant buried in the current infant sections at no cost but pay to place their own monument on the gravesite. The Commissioners agreed. Mike Scirpoli would like to have only one other infant section. He would like the second infant section to be re-marked for adult plots. He would also like to have other sections openedand marked. p The Commissioners reviewed the proposed entrance improvements to the Great beck Woods Cemetery. M. Scirpoli can't see spending a lot of money fora grand entrance and a high wall along the front part of the cemetery. He would like the cemetery to be viewable from the street. C. Laurent presented pictures of other stonewalls with fencing. g Both M. Scirpoli and E. Virgilio liked the idea of having a stonewall at the entrance and a roof iron fence with stone pillars along the front of the cemetery. E. Virgilio would like all g three Commissioners to be present during the discussion of the front entrance and will touch on the topic again at the next meeting. In discussing the general maintenance of the cemetery C. Laurent explained that the store walkway is now completed. She proposed that a landscaper be hired to maintain the property from April through October. She explained that theD.P.W. doesn't have the available staff`to maintain all of the property, The Commissioners agreed. E. Virgilio would like something in writing thanking the nen from theD.P.W. for the work they've done thus far at the cemetery. The meetingadjo' urned at 4:45 p.m.