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County attorney drafts high‑level cemetery ordinance; clerk or manager to keep records
Summary
Attorney Bin Minter presented a draft, high‑level cemetery ordinance that would require the county to keep records for the new cemetery. The proposal would assign recordkeeping to the County Manager or County Clerk rather than creating a separate cemetery board; commissioners will review and add the item to a future agenda.
At the July 1 regular meeting and later at the July 28 work session, County Attorney Bin Minter reported he has prepared a draft of a cemetery ordinance for the new county cemetery. Minter said the draft is intended to be high level rather than a set of bylaws and would require the county to maintain records for interments and other cemetery information.
Minter said the county will not need a separate cemetery board under the current draft; instead, recordkeeping responsibilities would rest with the County Manager or the County Clerk. The attorney and manager also discussed retrieving records from prior county auditors and ensuring administrative responsibility for ongoing record maintenance.
Commissioners directed staff and counsel to continue refining the draft and to place the ordinance proposal on a future work‑session or regular‑meeting agenda for formal consideration and potential adoption.
