ORDER-2016-153 : Appropriation of $58,500 from available Free Cash to various Wyoming Cemetery Accounts as set forth herein.

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▶ 43:56 Peter D. Mortimer: set by alderman boy cell duly second by alderman Forbes seeing no further discussion all in favor please say aye aye any opposed this order will be recommended for passage at our next full board Thank you very much. On May 2nd, Monday, May 2nd.

▶ 44:15 Peter D. Mortimer: The next and order of the Appropriations Committee is an appropriation of $58,000 from available free cash to various Wyoming cemetery accounts as set forth herein. We have a member of the Wyoming Cemetery Commission, Mark Garipay. We have our Director of Public Works, John Chenna. john chenna and still before us if needed we have our city auditor patrick delarusso gentlemen welcome thank you please make yourself comfortable uh good evening good evening uh

▶ 44:59 Speaker 9: throughout the winter of 2015 and 16 the department of public works at the request of the cemetery commission chairman mark Garipay daniel o'neill ralph moore cemeteries administrator angela pisacriti we department mainly through its engineering office has conducted a capital improvement assessment of various items that are required to maintain the operation and the infrastructure within the wyoming cemetery so uh the result of this capital study throughout the winter months has created a created this funding order which is aimed at continuing the cemetery's partnership with the veterans department and the veterans community continuing and restarting roadway improvements equipment upgrades for the crew

▶ 46:05 Speaker 9: to maintain the grounds a heating system upgrade and expansion like i speak to each one individually continued work with the veterans this year we're working through ryan mclean it continued improvements in the gar monument and also creation of a formal official flag burning memorial within the cemetery grounds traditionally at Memorial Day once a year we burn flags there with local scouts trying to create a more formal memorial to make that happen from year to year was an idea that veterans brought forward and that the Commission expressed interest in exploring and bringing forward the heating system upgrade is for the main office the system that's in the building has been identified for several years as a need of repair this trend this funding order will install a new boiler which will keep the heating system operable in the years many years to come in the main admin office the landscape equipment purchase includes mowers attachment and hand tools that the cemetery operations crew can use day to day during spring cleanup fall cleanup and in the entire mowing period in between the paving of roads in the creation of a new expansion area is the result of a multi-page capital improvement report that our engineering office put together which I can forward to the board if you so desire what they did was similar to our road program throughout the city we identified and ranked all the roads within the cemetery split them into the three categories presented to the Commission a plan that includes the total amount of roads which is about four and a half miles the percentage which are in the worst shape percentage which are in fair shape and the percentage which structurally appear to be sound so the Commission wants to try to do is start to on a year-by-year basis address the more glaring concerns and including in this is another plan for expansion the existing Noel wood area which is by the Ripley has two more years of available burials based on existing statistics and burials and the lotteries that took place the this plan that we're funding tonight will create the right page 166 lots of additional

▶ 48:52 Speaker 9: burials and that's being done by removing roads and creating plots within the existing roadway so we'll be removing the asphalt and the gravel bringing in loom and creating plots the road obviously is a buffer between two section so we would make one larger section um we hope you look favorably upon this order i can most certainly speak to anything in particular i believe chairman Garipay has a brief statement to make on behalf of the commission in this regard thanks um i just want to stay over the uh over the

▶ 49:31 Mark Garipay: last 12 months uh the commission has worked closely with uh john peter petrotonio um the engineering department to come up with a plan that um that identifies the immediate needs of the cemetery we feel the immediate needs and which which a few of them are in this are in this um

▶ 49:56 Mark Garipay: in the uh in the order here the expansion the road work the boiler veteran section um we appreciate all your support we your continued support and we hope that uh you'll look at this

▶ 50:12 Peter D. Mortimer: favorably and vote this order through thank you mr shanna thank you mr Garipay president khan please

▶ 50:16 Speaker 3: mr shannon is the roadway uh work gonna be performed by third-party contractors or can

▶ 50:24 Speaker 9: be performed by the city it'll be performed through our annual road contract through a

▶ 50:33 Peter D. Mortimer: third party okay okay that's all i had thank you president khan alderman Medeiros please thank you

▶ 50:41 Monica C. Medeiros: thank you both if by creating this new section and the 166 additional plots how long of a time frame will that take us through yeah we're averaging about 25 to

▶ 50:53 Mark Garipay: 35 new sale lots a year so figure this with the two years we have will give us

▶ 51:09 Monica C. Medeiros: another probably close to seven years and what's the status again it with the lottery is a lottery complete is this an ongoing there'll be one last lottery

▶ 51:15 Speaker 9: which will meet the commitment from four and a half five years ago that funded the Nolwood that lottery will take place very shortly in May and June and then we

▶ 51:28 Monica C. Medeiros: expect that that will completely fill that section or well won't fill the

▶ 51:33 Speaker 9: section but in terms financially it will meet the commitment that the lottery is

▶ 51:41 Monica C. Medeiros: supposed to and in terms of the flag burning monument has there been any efforts to look at and raising funds privately for for that in terms of donations or sort of a cross between art and something for veterans and so sometimes there might be an appetite for that I'm not sure how much that of this

▶ 52:10 Speaker 9: amount in general terms the veterans section has historically always seen volunteer work I believe one even our own police chief was out there power washing monuments with with local funeral directors with veterans this is this again in the city's history of working together and partnering with groups whether they be PTO s or user groups I think this is a fair commitment on the city's behalf to say thank you we care and hopefully this will spearhead had more volunteerism in the years to come in other sections of the cemetery

▶ 52:51 Monica C. Medeiros: yeah and I I don't know about how much are we talking towards the monument I

▶ 53:00 Speaker 9: didn't see that broken out so it's $4,000 is the monument portion that's the order under cemetery land yes cemetery landscaping okay the majority of that the labor will be performed by the crew that's to buy the material to

▶ 53:16 Peter D. Mortimer: to create the monuments thank you thank you alderman medeiros alderman swerko please yeah

▶ 53:20 Michael P. Zwirko: just i just had a quick question um the cemetery is very close to my house so i frequently walk through there and one of the nicer sections that i like is the uh the older sections of the um from the late 1800s 1900s and there's even a headstone that is shaped like a medal of honor that was awarded to a soldier who perished and was a medal of honor recipient i'm just curious if the roads that you're planning to pave because i don't have a map here is it the older section that you're repaving i mean you said that it had to do with the the quality of the roads but i would just be inclined to believe that it would be the older sections that have deteriorated more so i'm just

▶ 53:58 Speaker 9: curious as to what sections you're planning on we haven't identified a particular allotment of roads yet we know the category that we'll select from some are in the old section yeah as you as you stated some are in the newer section and more heavily used or involved in um you know funeral funeral route to an area that we frequently visit that's going to be once we have a funding source that's a decision that the commission can evaluate with our engineering office okay this is how much we have this is what we'd like to target sure but i think it's it's important now that what's important to note is that they now have a tool yep these are our worst rows these are our best restaurants this is everything in between where do we want to invest this funding order spearheads that investment and this is hopefully a multi multi-year plan towards improving their infrastructure it's four and a half miles of road yeah within the cemetery yeah thank you thank you Alderman

▶ 54:55 Peter D. Mortimer: Tuerco motion to recommend second motion to recommend from Alderman Forbes duly seconded by Alderman Boisselle seeing no further discussion all in favor please say aye aye any opposed hearing this order will be recommended for passage at our next full board meeting Thank You mr. Gara pay Thank You mr. Shana the next order we have before us