Cemetery Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay. How about now, Jasmine? Yes. I can hear you. Okay. Alright. Cindy Kasparis, are you present?

There's I'm here. Public.

Okay. You'll have

it. Okay. Alright.

It's a close one. Okay.

We have a quorum in here.

Yes. Over the chair, we have a quorum. Okay. I

don't see anyone here to speak, so we will move to item one, consideration of the February regular meeting minutes.

There's a motion. I have reviewed them, and

I move that we approve the minutes.

They're accepted.

Second.

K. And if you will If there's no discussion, we will call on roll.

Okay. 10. Ten Bauerkenberg?

Yes.

Faye Clyde Gilliam? Approved. Debbie Thomas? Approved. Faye Sullivan?

Approved.

Cindy Kisparis? Approved. Brenda Butler? Approved. Bobby Moore?

Approved.

The motion passed.

K. Action item, number two. Discuss consider nominations and selection for the position of chair of the cemetery commission. And I will open the floor for any nominations. I have

a question. Yes. Are you willing to serve again? I

have a few things going that may have me busy and needing to be online. And when you're online, you can't be chair. And so I am willing, but it's there are gonna be more times when a vice chair would need to cover possibly. So I'm willing, but I am also very willing to hand over and allow someone else to have some fun. Cindy, what about you?

No. Not interested in doing that.

Okay, Brenda. I'm not interested in doing that. Thank you. But I think you should. Mhmm.

I'm not gonna make you I'll

I'll say.

I was thinking about that all the way home because I knew we'd said last time he's getting busy for himself. Well, if he's not willing to do that, then he would be great.

Would you be the last year?

Yes. That way we can make sure one of us is gonna be alive in the flesh. So

Or

or. Yeah.

Oh, for. We

need to do chair first.

Two. Yes.

Okay. So I had Brenda motion. Was there anybody else?

We're still discussing.

I don't see any other discussions, so I will declare nominations closed and It's fair. See that. Oh, darn. Oh, play a play a second.

So

Yeah. Play a second.

Do we roll?

Hold on. Yes. Yes. So I have a motion from Brenda to nominate Faye as chair and a second violently. Will we roll call? Bonnie Moore?

Yes.

Cindy Casperis? Yes. Faye Sullivan?

Yes.

Brenda Butler? Yes. Faye Quiet Killahan, did you want the same thing? Yeah. I think so. Congratulations. Okay. Sam Bauerkenberg?

Yes.

Demi Tonks. Yes. Okay. The motion passed. And now we're on to vice chair nominations. Yes.

I nominate Tim Bauerkenberg. Second.

So any other nominations or discussion? Then we will close. We'll ask the roll call.

Tim Bauerkenberg?

Oh, I'm staying.

Oh, Drew.

Sorry. Bye bye. Cindy Hefebris? Yes. Clay Sullivan?

Yes.

Faye Clyde Gilliam? Yes. Brenda Butler? Yes. Debbie Thomas. Yes. Bobby Moore.

Yes. Motion passed. Okay.

Then a report from the folks who checked on the condition of the cemetery.

Bonnie, you take it. Well,

Faye and Jean and I did a ride around, and it looks very neat and very thirsty. Yeah. Jean said they've done a mow, but there's there's not much to mow. And and it's so edgy, well, I mean, but there's nothing there's nothing along the edges sticking up. It looks very good. And the only thing I I suggested is could we look perhaps at making the little sandwich sign at the entrance a little neater? It right it looks like it's got hanging duct tape all over it, and it's got duct tape covering half of the words. It looks really tacky. And but other than that, it seemed to be all as well.

We can get on that. Doc will get that sandwich for

And I

and, was there board.

There are date changes, and there's a reason it's a sandwich board, but it just it needs some love.

Yep. I would say the only thing I would add is the unconscious working appears to be the most drought tolerant and survival instinct plan I've ever seen. Only one of them looking good. I'm so. I'm not thinking about a couple of months. But even the way it is, like, the the

bandanas around the like, oh, stressed as they always do this time of the year, but that's the reason folks have always been such a proponent of leaving those there rather than replacing them with something else. If you look at them now, you think they're dead. Give me one inch of rain in seven days. Yes. And they're going to Yeah. They just tolerate this when nothing else does, and they're one of the few plants out there that the deer

And they survive. Yeah.

Yes. What

was that the deer don't eat, Nandina?

Well, they don't bother that one in particular, Debbie. I would say they don't eat anything.

Because they're eating my Lantana.

Oh, yes. But they're I

have seen them eat beef for an. It's such a I've seen them eating pork fried at in the cemetery. When it's really dry and they have no food or chicken anywhere else, Pardon me. They eat the fresh flowers on graves, and I have families come in the next day, mad at the end. They could, what did you do? Don't let me let me take you out there and show me the deer. Right?

Yeah.

You can help you understand. I've away

from graveside services, and you see them in the tree line.

They're like they're they're like this. Yeah.

They know it. And and so yeah.

The Very nice.

It looks as good as it could. Yeah. For the sun, and they'll fix it.

I pointed out to Bobby and and Faye that we had gotten together with Kelly a couple of months ago, and she wanted me to address some of the ball moss, particularly in the break hurdles along the roadways, which we have done. We have mulched them. And, Bert, if you see Kelly, and she wants to break some more mulch, if she'll get it out there before getting rained and starts growing again. But I mean

I just need to know how much you need because it's my guys' Is

it mulch? Well, I'll spot it. We put out everything that they want Right now, I'm through a cycle of one even though there's not a whole lot to be done, but this is my time of year where all all the secretaries I'm responsible for. Have to have time. Can we sleep for Easter? And then again for Mother's Day, and then two to three weeks following that, no other day. So the next four to six weeks are not the best time for me to take on outside projects, but once I get through those, still dry. If we're going to summer without much rain and this heat, well, then we'll probably have a burning summer normalcy. If we do, I'll just get with Kelly the stuff that she asked me to do up there. We do.

We've proven all the great problems. We've taken them back three or four to five primary branches of the smaller ones that the deer had knocked down. We caged them with wire, moisture around them, and I've removed all the dead trees that she has.

So I I know we've had several limbs fall recently as well, and I'm gonna bring my guys from y'all and just got

And the broken benches. And what? The broken benches.

Benches that Brenda pointed out last time going there on Wednesday, they were taken out and put back into you on Friday. I've heard nothing.

Yeah. I talked to the one that's looking. Sorry. I I really appreciate it.

Oh, and that was one that that was really kinda just needed to be taken up. So one of them, in my opinion, is dumpster work. The others, I mean, there was one that I know. Only the one was kinda I'm gonna look at it. Yeah. But one sitting to me that it's not necessarily something that you will not go back.

That one looks like it just split right in it. Almost looked like somebody either sat on it or kicked it or such to make it split. Possible. It's possible.

But, you know, like Yes.

Well, if they come, we still have them. I might take some direction for y'all. They've been up there in my back three months, and nobody's come along. I'll ask. Okay. If you if you can communicate with them and ask them what they I just

said 1.

Okay.

Call me.

Was it 2 or 3? 2.

2. 2.

And if you get one of which, Bobby, I don't think is

Yeah. It was my grandma.

Yes. And that that and it was basically I'll pick it up and put it back there. But, really, I think it would have been just as much service to the family to put it to the dumpster as it would've been to go back because they're not fully constructed. And but if you give me some directions, then I wanna even tell them if

I'll just tell her to call. Yeah.

And if she wants to Scott, and if she wishes, I'll coordinate right on the bow cycle. Tell her to call Scott. She's willing to give her her contact information, give her advanced numbers when my crews will be in pretty good maintenance cycle, and she can come out of my crew. I'm.

Like, there I think there was actually three. We did have to move one. We had to move one to deal with the broken treatment up there. And I I need to go back up there and make sure it got moved back. That I'm most familiar with. Yeah. There was came in on the

report and of a certain. You know, it's probably property that that should've that that should've been addressed. So as we often do

Well, I had the one the one oak tree limb that broke. It was half hanging in the tree and half on the ground. Right. And there was a bench right underneath it.

Oh, yeah.

And and it was not harmed, but I had my guys move it because I did not want it inadvertent Yeah. Damage. So Yeah.

We're just left, though.

You just need to move it

back and let the family know. They'll share contact information with Scott. That way, when we're up there on the side for long haul, she knows his day. I'll put it back up.

I know. She'd appreciate it. Yeah. I did wanna ask about the tree that I was reporting on last week. The one that's on my mother's grave that I can't even drive through because it strips the top of my car.

So

And it has been that way for quite some time.

Did did they not remove that limb? I don't

I went there and put flowers on Sunday, and that limb was not I mean, it didn't need to be removed, but the limb the little limbs coming down Mhmm. Needed to be because she could probably still drive underneath it, but but they were still there, so I I couldn't drive them.

There's a hardwood tree.

Yeah. It's an oak tree. That big oak tree.

Well, I will tell you definitively. I do not mess with the old ones.

Yeah.

K.

Well and I I did, and we had one that was marked. Right. And I they may have marked the wrong one. Oh, good. Because there was I went up there, and there was a limb that was low, and it was right close to where, and it had a tape on it. I know my guys went up there and cut the limb off. And then You think they painted? They they painted everything like that.

I just want I just want I think Saturday or Sunday.

And Okay. Well, then they obviously got the wrong one. So we can go back up there.

And they might have done it Monday or Tuesday because I didn't go.

Okay.

There was two that need

yeah. That one was a down

Do you have my phone in

your contacts with us? Yes.

I do.

But if you look, see what it's doing or if you do, put it through your permission, she'll call me. Nothing Inject the county. Yeah. The oak trees and particularly now.

Yeah. Right now, we're in the.

I gave it up for me. I don't believe it. So but if you'll call me, like, no. That's another call.

Wouldn't wear it. Down another. So Well,

no. I mean, we we we had it was one that was marked. Yep. And it was and and so not because I had asked after the last meeting, asked her to go look at it, and we had pictures of one that was right there close to where your thought is. And I thought it was the right one. So it it's Next time I go up there,

I'll try to.

Yeah. I will. I did when I was putting the flowers up, there were a bunch of limbs that had come down. There's, like, one big oak tree, and there's two others around it. And somebody had put them. I figured it was probably a neighbor, like, one of my neighbors that wants to trim and throw it on my land, but him, maybe not. But so I took them because it was in the dark. He couldn't see it. So I just moved in the sunshine so the guys could see it and say, hey. I'm you need to do that. But, otherwise, those other limbs were sticking out. I couldn't drive through it.

Well, I will

I just don't wanna break it off.

I will go back up there, and we'll we'll get it addressed. I just I'm sorry. I Oh, so thought I thought the one that was marked was the right was the right limb. Let

me know.

Yeah. Well well, we may have to coordinate something. Thank you. Just to verify and make sure that it's alright. We'll give we'll get it taken care of.

Anything else on some cemetery conditions? Report on the status of the expansion project?

Well, we had a really good meeting this last week with our our permanent department and very productive. We met our the person that's over our permitting and our architect all got together, and we went through all the plan sets. And there there are about 20 different things that he has to go back and add different notes on to the plan set before everything is authorized. But and there's one engineering question that has to be answered. But for the most part, everything was just updating notes because codes have changed since we started this process.

And and and so so we just have to we just have to update all the sheets, those things, and I think they'll have those done within the next couple of weeks. I don't so we're so we should everything should be moving forward there pretty soon.

And then it'll pop. Yeah.

So once we get the Yeah. Everything everything is is approved and all the plan sets approved, then we'll put that out. That'll be it's set that we can put out on the street. We still there's probably, we'll I'm I'm trying to see if we can use one of our our contracts that we already have for doing the street component and using the contractor to do the fence and the retention bond that needs to be done. So those are the have to see what those numbers look like.

We've that. There's a possibility that we can start doing some work quicker if we can utilize the contracts that are in our new books. It's not getting approved. It's kinda gonna be a little tricky, but it's it's I think it'll save us some money in the loan. Trying to trying to also work and get some of the other streets paid up there at the same time. So if we can if we can figure out a way to do it, that's the the whole Yeah. Whole thing.

So And I have a question for you.

Thank you. Thank you, Bert. Don't see any press or public here available questions. So who's going? We'll have a we'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

And all in favor? Aye.

Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.