Cemetery Commission - Regular Meeting

It is straight up 04:00. Am Tim Bauer Kemper. I am vice chair. Will be acting chair for this meeting at least until the chair is filled. And I call this meeting of the secretary on 03/26/2025 to order and call for a roll call.

Okay. Brenda Butler? Here. Gina Even? Here. Faye Clyde Gilliam? Here. Cindy Kaspers? Here. Tim Beverkenberg? Here. Clay Sullivan?

Here.

Adriana Montoya, is not here. She may join us later virtually. She's the new appointed She is a new member. She had a conference today, so she wasn't sure if she was gonna be able to jump on, in time. Okay. Sherry, you don't have call.

Okay. There are I didn't see any citizens up for comment.

So No one signed us.

So we will move to consideration of the minutes from the February meeting.

Move. We accept the meeting the the minutes as written. Seconded.

Moved and seconded. All in favor?

Aye. Any opposed?

Motion carries. And the first action item, discuss and consider nominations and selection for the position of chair of the Cemetery Commission.

Anybody have a nomination to put out?

Maybe we should get Cindy since she's in her bar.

No. No. No. No. That's why I'm here. It it made sure I was here because I'm I've I've stepped out of meetings to work.

Someone go to the bathroom. I I

may, I am studied in parliamentary procedure because as pastor, you'd better know how to do it so that you can convince your people that maybe we ought to do some things in proper order. I am I'm willing to, serve if someone was to nominate.

I thought that I thought that Jenna was going to to serve us since she has all that experience in helping.

Patsy? I don't have that much experience in parliamentary procedure.

Or you're in your car.

I'm in my

She's in her car.

But Jenna did but Jenna didn't use I I thought

that she said chair in a meeting

with me. Been vice chair for I thought but I thought that you had said I would be happy to do that when Patsy said, what about Jenna?

I thought you did too.

I don't think I I thought you did too.

I thought

you did.

Did too. I don't ever remember saying this. Last year was plenty. Thank you. I nominate Tim Bauer Kemper.

Sounds cool.

Will, you're gonna have a second, boss.

Yep. I am willing to accept. I will ask for do we need to do that on roll call, or can we Yeah. I

can. Okay. So

Clay Sullivan?

Yes.

Cindy Kisparis?

I'm gonna abstain.

Benny Clyde Gillingham? Uh-huh. Voting, Zaden. Gina Even? Yes. Brenda Butler? Yes. Adriana Montoya is not here. Okay. And then we have enough for motion to pass.

Okay. Nominations selection for vice chair of the commission.

You can give me $40. Do wanna know what's going on? I'll do it if you

I'm already generating.

Better to jump up every time. I I said

I will I will I will let you know if I'm not going to be able to.

Okay. I'll take a roll call with Clay Moshening and Brenda Seckin Virginia Virginia. Sorry. Alright. Faye Clay Gillingham? In favor. Brenda Butler? Yes. Faye Sullivan?

Yes.

Tim Barrackemper? Yes. Cindy Kisparis?

Yes.

Okay. Motion passed.

Okay. We are on to reports. A report from the commissioners who checked the condition of the cemetery.

It needs rain.

Give it a couple

Which hopefully we're gonna get. Yeah. It's it's dry.

But It in general, it looks very

orderly. Yes. Looks to me as if it had been mowed. Although, I've lived around here for a while, so I know what what's really happening. But it looks good. And the large stack of rocks and soil was explained away and will not be an eyesore for long.

There's Where is that?

There's it's over toward the side. There's been a lot of

clearance out there area. In

Yeah.

There's been lots of

lots of stuff been dug lately. Yeah. It's gotta be somewhere. It's you know, everybody gotta be someplace.

Yep.

And it's there, and it's just temporary. It's a happy Yeah. And I don't say

the mounds are neatly molded into cones.

Well, I I pointed

it Seriously.

Yeah. It

is. Seriously.

That was kinda surprise.

An onslaught of services, and almost all of them have been in that really hard rock. Yeah. So it's not soil that we can backfill our grave spaces with. The men went through and filled every something great. As I said, there's there's not been a great need for mowing anyways. So the other chores that we normally achieve during the winter, dormancy, are done.

Are you having to move rocks? Because that

I mean, the mountains look neat.

Like Yeah. But it's

it's my responsibility to remove them. They their their spoils from and the cemetery is is is technically what we refer to as a haul off cemetery. You've always got a we got a staging area at every cemetery that there is. You have to have one.

Yeah. Yeah.

But it's just been you know, a million more people have moved in this area in the last five years, folks, and it is showing up in in my my business. Mhmm. Just we I mean, it's it's it's excessive. So Yeah. But So the guys haven't had a chance, but I spoke with my operation supervisor this afternoon. And I've got a contract hauler that actually brings me topsoil for back for my Graves, and I'm gonna have him come in and just haul all that stuff off for me because I I'm not seeing a break. I mean, we're seven days a week for I don't know how many weeks in a row. Yeah. Just

And we've we've been thinking We've brought you we've brought you more soil this year.

I told them you complained about all the soil that Jimmy told me, you use more soil than we do in our whole department. But, well, I

did more

humps than you do.

That's true. What about the what about the mulch? I didn't realize y'all were to mulching. Well, no. Well, I know because it's right behind my house. But I'm talking about I didn't realize y'all were going to mulch an entire road. Kelly.

Talk to Kelly. That's that is the appropriate way for it to be done, Brenda. And I'm assisting them in the spreading of it, but I'm doing that under her instruction, and I trust that she knows what she's doing. She wants a broad I thought it would go from the canopy of the tree.

Yeah. I thought it was gonna go in the tree.

System extends way beyond the canopy. So the critical root zone extends Mhmm. It can extend, like, 15 feet depending upon the tree.

Well, I mean, this was the whole road. The whole road is is mulch. I that was a surprise to me when I went up there. Mean, I was thinking, okay. I'm looking at the trees, and I I realized I wasn't with y'all, but but I have gone up there a couple of days ago. And so I didn't know if is that our new system of roadways?

That's what no. No. It's but that's the that's the she knows what she's doing, and I'm acting under her instructions. That's what we do. And if it's unsightly, it's very temporary.

Well, I didn't say it was unsightly. I just thought, well, it it was that was a road, but then there were another couple of roads, and they didn't have mulch, and so I didn't know what your plan was.

Was given a zone within which to spread it. Yeah. And we've got that one pile left there.

So I thought y'all were giving that to me.

Well, I thought I thought you mulched it in your backyard.

I just

No. I explained all

of I have a neighbor that throws enough of a fence. Honestly, I didn't

think that was

And he's still doing it. It was it was obviously there. It's obviously gonna be the whole way one day.

And I will get it out.

It's okay. It's not it's not bothering you. Cindy, it's not me.

I hope

Cindy has a question.

Okay. So I drove in the front of the cemetery, I wanna say maybe last Thursday or Friday, and I don't think this is a Jean thing. This is probably, a city. The guy I can never remember his name, the new guy.

Scott.

Scott. That metal that metal sign at the front that has, like, some rules and stuff, and this is very minor. But you know how, I guess, maybe with humidity and moisture and things like that, it's it's dirty. Like, it's just dirty. Like, it looks like you could take some pro nine and and do the sign and wipe it, and it'd be fine. But it's it's kind of it needs to be cleaned.

Are you talking, Cindy, about the historical marker across from the flagpole?

No. No. This is the

sign of the schedule and stuff.

Yeah.

Is it Yeah. We have

no rules on it. Okay.

It's the rules. Yeah. We can get that.

No. No. It's the it's the one

on the

pole. K.

You're talking

about the one on the black pole.

Yeah. It's on a pole, and it's just got some mildew spots, and it's just kinda you know? It's probably really beautiful bright white, but it's not anymore.

Oh, it's got to take care of it.

That Cindy, that sign was actually meant to to have an aged look to

it. Oh, okay.

It's it's the age

and it's patina.

Well I mean, seriously Yeah.

It's working, and the city shouldn't give up that vendor. Okay?

So he bonds from it.

Well, I I we'll clean it, but, I mean, I can we can do it.

Either way.

But it but does the sign the background of the sign is kinda Antique. Antique. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I'm gonna look at it close-up.

Yeah. I will try to do. Okay. Okay. Any

other comments or issues from the conditions?

I I was just gonna add, though, there's one pile of mulch up by your where the brush pile was because we mulched the brush pile. We went up there Friday last week and shipped all that.

Well and for you, Brenda, the prob highest probability is I'm gonna hedge on you a little bit, undercommit, try to overperform. I'm a tell you, hopefully, next week, if not next week, the week after, I'll have to bring an excavator up there to spread that stuff.

It is not causing me any problem. I was asking about that road. That's all I was asking. No. It can sit there. I really thought it was mine and. I was Well, you never That would take sweat and work, and that's not gonna be me. So

But we're gonna check

it out.

Can I ask a question? This had nothing to do with y'all because y'all have to go at night to be able to see it. But on Rancho 12, you know, we have three lights that are on those brick columns, and only one of them has a light in it. I didn't know. It's okay. Were all working. Yeah. They haven't been working for for a while. But that one then all of a sudden, the first the closest one to the gate is working, but I just thought I would let you know. If somebody

Because we we had I had to add an electrician to go up there and fix all

the things. And

I'm I'm sorry.

I just wasn't aware. I can see it at night.

Well, you know, years ago when we put those in, Beverly and I were on the commission, and we wanted the light on top because we thought that would look nice, you know, with the globe. But forgot his name now, but he did the electrical stuff. Robert. Robert. And he said, no. You don't want it on top because then it could leak and and cause problems. So that's the reason it was on the front. But Mhmm. I would have loved to have seen it on the top because it would have been a nice glow. But there's only one there. So not that anybody's looking for it, but I know it's not they're not on. So that's all.

It's okay. I'll give

you something.

I'll check well, I'll check into it.

Yeah. See what this one

The closest one to the gate is working.

Yes. Okay.

Okay. I'm excited. If that's

if If that's close to the conditions to work, then we'll move to a

Listen.

Okay. Standby. Our our computer died. So hold on one second. Let me turn my my iPad around so that you can at least, see everybody. Alright. Okay. Okay. Everybody? Yep. Okay. Yep. Okay. Cool. There we go.

We are open for item, five on the recording. Cemetery expansion.

It's gonna be real real quick. I have no update.

Still waiting on permits and all that. No.

I'm not. Okay. Okay. Yes. I'm sorry.

Locked off the light. We lost our assistant director over permitting, so it's things are probably going a little slower than Oh, really? Than usual. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Then

She was my source to get things.

Yeah. She was our go to person.

Then if there's no we will leave that one on until or we will leave that one on. That one is a stand seems like a standing issue.

Yes, sir.

Then I do not see the press or any other members of the public beating down the door to ask questions about anything. Move with none, we move, here of motion to adjourn.

You can get the record.

I mean, that's taken.

Alright. Somebody All

all in favor?

Aye. Aye.

All opposed, feel free to stay.

Alright.