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Benton Harbor cemetery board approves $7,730 transfer to reimburse city for invoices and will pay future cemetery invoices from cemetery fund
Summary
The cemetery board approved transferring $7,730 to reimburse the general fund for March invoices the city paid and agreed that future cemetery invoices will be paid directly from the cemetery fund; the transcript does not specify the total amount of three April invoices discussed.
The Benton Harbor Cemetery Board voted to transfer $7,730 from the cemetery fund to the general fund to reimburse two March invoices the city had already paid.
Board members also approved a change in procedure so that future cemetery-related checks will be written directly from the cemetery fund rather than transferring receipts to the city and having the city pay invoices. A board staff member said the cemetery fund will receive deposits and pay management invoices directly going forward.
During discussion the board reviewed three April invoices that the staff said will be paid from the cemetery fund; the transcript includes an incomplete figure for that total (rendered as "$14,95") and the exact total for the April invoices is not specified in the record. The board recorded a motion to transfer the $7,730 and to approve payment of the April invoices from the cemetery fund.
Chair Frasier moved the motion and Member Brown seconded it. Member Brown, Member Jackson and Chair Frasier recorded votes in support and the chair declared the motion carried. The board did not state a roll-call no vote in the transcript; the official tally recorded in the meeting was recorded as the motion carrying.
Board members also discussed practical next steps: a staff member said Rhonda (on vacation) would physically prepare the check when available and identified the mayor and the staff member as signers on the account. Members asked staff to provide detailed invoice breakdowns for future meetings and discussed security improvements to address cemetery vandalism, including repairing two nonfunctioning floodlight poles at Morton Hill.
