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Report of the Quality Engineering must also be secured. The services Cemetery Commission of an engineer will be required in order to prepare a topographic plan and subsequent master plan of the parcel. It will be necessary for the Cemetery Commission To the Honorable Board of Selectmen to request funding for this purpose at some future town and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: meeting.We recognize the present financial situation and The Cemetery Commission submits its Annual Report priorities in our town. We will remain patient in the in- terim and seek the necessary permits first. for the year 1987. After an absence of thirteen years,the Cemetery Com- The commission extends its gratitude to Oliver Pocknett mission was reorganized in July 1986 with the appoint- who carries out his duties as Burial Agent with dedica- tion, putting in many hours of his personal time in the ment of three commissioners by the Selectmen. The first performance of the job. He made the preparations and several months were spent ascertaining the duties,obliga- tions and powers of a local cemetery board. supervised the interment of eleven persons in calendar In order to carry out our role as caretakers of public Year He is the cornerstone of the Cemetery burial grounds,we are presently formulating by-laws and Commission. rules and regulations for their management. We will be We also wish to thank Ernest Virgilio, Director of the coming to town meeting at some time in the future seek- Department of Public Works, who oversees the mainten- ing your approval of these proposed regulations. ance of the cemetery grounds, and Executive Secretary Joseph Murphy who has given us much of his time and With the funds appropriated at the 1986 Annual Town advice vital to our commission.We appreciate the assist- Meeting specifically "for the expansion of the existing ance and cooperation they have provided us. F town cemetery,"nearly three acres of adjacent land was Finally, to all the citizens of Mashpee, we appreciate cleared by the Allenby Tree Company of East Falmouth your present and future support in our endeavors. this past summer.At our request,the Board of Selectmen approved the designation of this nearly six-acre parcel as Respectfully submitted, a future cemetery. Now we await the approval of the citizens of Mashpee at the next annual town meeting.We Arthur Andrade, Jr., Chairman respectfully request that you vote in the affirmative as Leo Peters burial lots in the present town cemetery are nearly Marie Scalley depleted. It is our objective to provide burial space for Mashpee Cemetery Commission i any resident of the town who requests it. The approval of this parcel as burial ground by the citizens of Mashpee is only the first step in a long pro- cedure to accomplish this task.The approval of the local Board of Health and the Department of Environmental I p.. V 1 F' E a •yf1 - 119 -