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Resident urges action on private cemetery perpetual-care fund; selectmen suggest expert review
Summary
Resident Tom Brackett asked selectmen to permit trustees or the town to use funds in a perpetual-care account to repair a family cemetery; selectmen recommended cemetery trustees consult charity-trust expert Terry Knowles and noted the trustees, not the selectmen, must follow RSA procedures for trust changes or land purchase proposals.
Tom Brackett, a Greenland resident, told the Board of Selectmen that a family cemetery whose perpetual-care fund dates to the 1940s has fallen into disrepair and asked the town to allow use of the remaining funds to restore the site.
"There's about $8,000 in this," Brackett said, referring to the account he raised at the meeting, and he offered to "cut me a check and I'll just start fixing this myself." He said the trust originally was established with a bequest intended to provide perpetual care but that…
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