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Budget meeting moves to fund larger park tree work and holds cemetery spending steady
Summary
Participants agreed to increase park contract work funding to 6,500 to address overdue tree removal and limb cleanup, while leaving cemetery wages and supplies largely unchanged and treating burial contract work as pass-through.
Unidentified Speaker 1, an unidentified meeting participant, moved the session to parks and cemetery lines and asked whether wages and benefits should change; participants agreed to leave wages unchanged. Unidentified Speaker 5 explained park fuel-card coordination issues and flagged significant tree work: multiple trees with winter damage, broken limbs and some dead trunks that may need removal.
Speaker 5 estimated roughly $7,500 to complete all necessary tree work but proposed an immediate budget entry of 6,500 to allow contractors to begin urgent trimming and removal. "Let's put in 6,500," Unidentified Speaker 5 said, adding they would "squeeze out some remaining" funds from the current year to cover the difference. The group treated capital outlay for parks as 0 for the coming year but agreed to use this year's carryover and to re-evaluate next budget cycle.
For the cemetery, participants kept wages and benefits unchanged and left cemetery supplies at 1,500. Contract work for openings and closings of graves was described as a pass-through expense; transfers to other enterprise funds (electric, water) were left blank for next year.
No formal roll-call votes were recorded; decisions were described as consensus direction to staff to prepare final budget lines and contractor scopes.
