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2026-10-07 - Cemetery Commission

Summary

Built from the posted agenda; no minutes or video recorded.

  • Review and approve minutes of the September 2 and 22 meetings, public comment, and financials.
  • Old business: status of stones for the Old Route 100 Cemetery, feedback on website layouts, follow-up with the Historical Society on Hope Cemetery stone cleaning (including where to store equipment), and clearing the brush pile from 2025 at the Route 100 Cemetery.
  • Old business: filling a vacancy on the commission.
  • New business: having an arborist structurally prune the maple trees next to the Maple Street Cemetery, pruning at the Route 100 and Maple Street cemeteries, and clean-up in the Demeritt Cemetery.
  • Discussion of future care of the cemeteries (for example a part-time groundskeeper, grass cutter or bush pruner).
  • Next meeting listed as Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 4 PM.
  • The Select Board was told on 2026-10-06 that the FY27 Cemetery Commission budget is about $65,000.

Agenda

  1. Review/approve minutes of September 2 and 22
  2. Public
  3. Financials
  4. Old business: Old Route 100 Cemetery stones; website layouts; Hope Cemetery stone cleaning and equipment storage; 2025 brush pile at Route 100 Cemetery; commission vacancy
  5. New business: arborist pruning of maples by Maple Street Cemetery; pruning at Route 100 and Maple Street; Demeritt Cemetery clean-up; future care of cemeteries

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