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Cemetery Committee discusses $100,000 equipment purchase, repayment from Perpetual Care Fund and annual budget planning
Summary
On Feb. 2 the Cemetery Committee reviewed a past $100,000 equipment purchase that used Perpetual Care Fund principal and is being repaid from interest; the chairman asked DPW Superintendent James Hall to help draft a yearly cemetery budget.
Committee members on Feb. 2 discussed a capital purchase charged to the Perpetual Care Fund and steps to address its repayment and future cemetery budgeting.
James Hall, the DPW superintendent (referred to in the minutes as "Jim"), told the committee that a piece of equipment costing $100,000 was purchased some years ago using Perpetual Care Fund principal rather than only the fund's interest. Hall said the purchase is being paid back gradually from interest accrued on the fund. Committee members discussed options to recoup the expenditure but the minutes record no formal resolution.
Chairman Gordon Means asked to work with Hall to develop an annual cemetery budget; Hall reported $828 has been spent so far this fiscal year. The conversation produced a direction to prepare a yearly budget rather than a formal vote or appropriation at this meeting.
James Hall left the meeting at 11:25 a.m.; the committee adjourned at 11:45 a.m.
