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Committee hears bill to transfer Lot 258 to Parks to expand Tiguan Cemetery as burials near capacity
Summary
Lawmakers and Parks and Recreation officials told a Guam legislative committee that Vicente A. Limtiaco Memorial Park (Tiguan Cemetery) is near capacity and asked to transfer adjacent Lot 258 to the Department of Parks and Recreation; the mayor of Piti opposed the measure, citing current cemetery upkeep and unclear funding for improvements.
The Committee on Land, Environment, Housing, Agriculture, Parks, and Infrastructure held a public hearing May 13 on Bill 49-38 COR, which would transfer Lot 258 in Nimitz Hill to the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to expand the Vicente A. Limtiaco Memorial Park, commonly known as Tiguan Cemetery.
Senator Tina Rose Muñoz Barnes, the bill’s author, told the committee the request came from DPR after its staff showed her the cemetery had reached a critical level of capacity. "Transfer a lot directly adjacent to the cemetery into its inventory, a property that is already owned by the government but is not assigned to any agency and a lot that has already been surveyed," Barnes said, summarizing the measure’s purpose.
Why it matters: DPR and its administrators said the cemetery has little remaining space for adult burials and that transferring the adjacent, surveyed government lot is a necessary first step before DPR can seek funds and develop a management plan. "We are down to less than maybe a month of burials left at TiGuac," Director Angel Sablan told the…
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