2026-11-09 - Cemetery Commission
Summary
Built from the posted agenda and the draft minutes (not yet approved; the agenda and portal say 12:00 noon, the draft minutes say 1:00 PM, adjourning about 1:21 PM). Meeting was hybrid. No video.
- All motions passed unanimously: approve the agenda and the October minutes; sell the remaining 11 lots in the Beth Jacob reserved section at $1,500 each ($1,000 to the Perpetual Care Fund, $500 to operating; the synagogue had assumed the old $1,000 price); lots sold back to Beth Jacob are repurchased at the original purchase price; Beth Jacob must match the cemetery's lot prices in perpetuity; adjourn. See Cemetery Lot Pricing and Director.
- Discussion only, no vote: a draft Cemetery Director job description and whether to make the cemetery a city department. The draft budget goes to the City Council by December.
- Next meeting December 14.
Agenda topics:
- Budget update and Director's Report.
- Review of the Cemetery Director job description (Cemetery Lot Pricing and Director).
- Questions raised by Beth Jacob about the Jewish section: price of remaining lots in the reserved section, what price applies if lots are bought back from owners, and whether resale prices always equal the cemetery's.
- Review of Appendix A, recommendations from two former commissioners dated March 11, 2009.
- Photography update from T-stop Productions.
- Next meeting set for December 14, 2026.
Agenda
- Call to order
- Approve agenda
- Approve minutes from October
- Director's Report
- Budget update
- Cemetery Director job description
- Jewish section questions raised by Beth Jacob (lot purchase price for remaining reserved-section lots; buy-back price, whether price paid by owner or current price; whether resale price always equals the cemetery's)
- Appendix A, recommendations from Green Mount Cemetery Commissioners dated March 11, 2009
- Photography update from T-stop Productions
- Other business
- Next meeting December 14, 2026
- Adjourn