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GRANT-2025-6 : Acceptance of a State Earmark for Wyoming Cemetery in the amount of $50,000
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(ID # 12008) Grant Acceptance of a State Earmark for Wyoming Cemetery in the amount of $50,000 Ought to Pass City Council
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▶ 26:53 Speaker 2: Councilor Jamal Ledine? Yes. Motion passes
▶ 26:57 Maya Jamaleddine: This. Motion passes. Thank you. And next on our agenda ID number 12 0 0 8. Acceptance of a state earmark for Wyoming, uh, cemetery in the amount of $50,000.
▶ 27:10 Jen Grigoraitis: Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, this is an earmark that was, um, successfully placed in the FY 25 state budget thanks to the advocacy of our delegation. Um, something that I, my office had requested is some dedicated funding for the cemetery. The intent of this earmark is for it to cover a combination of some of the costs around digitization, which has been a project that's been ongoing for a couple years to fully, um, archive and digitize at the location of every single grave in the cemetery. Which, considering the age of the cemetery is quite an undertaking. But it will help us to understand, you know, what we have available in terms of, um, remaining plots. Also, when we do the, um, demarcation of veterans graves to make sure that we have a full and accurate accounting of that. And then obviously also to help families locate their loved ones or ancestors that are buried there. And then the other portion of the money would be used for some identified priority paving projects within the cemetery. So our hope would be to work with the Cemetery Commission and DPW to determine how best to split the funding.
▶ 28:11 Maya Jamaleddine: Perfect. Thank you. Any question, counselor Repe?
▶ 28:15 Mark Garipay: Um, yeah, one of them, one of my questions was regarding the split, um, because I remember when I was on the commission, we started the dig digitalization in 2017, and I'm, I'd be curious to see if Mr. Troop knows what the cost is going to be to finish that. Um, 'cause it's been going on. It's, I know it's a tedious process. I do, I do know that. Um, but it has been, uh, seven, seven years now. So,
▶ 28:42 Jen Grigoraitis: Yeah, it's been ongoing. We have two folks who work on it, um, sort of part-time then with the leadership of Jane Pitts, who's our GIS analyst in the planning department. My, um, the intention was to have it be 10,000 to the digitization, which will hopefully get us over the finish line. I don't know if it's gonna make it work faster, but will mean that we have the funding and then 40,000 for capital projects within the cemetery itself.
▶ 29:04 Speaker 3: And, um, the roads, we have
▶ 29:07 Mark Garipay: to spend this money by a certain amount of time. 'cause I'm sure paving's over for the, for the season right now. Um, or is it just we, is that like bond?
▶ 29:16 Speaker 3: We can, we, we can hold onto it in the account and spend it when we
▶ 29:20 Jen Grigoraitis: Yeah. And we'll be able to pay when we're, when paving season resumes. And these were both, um, both of these projects, which we combined into one earmark were identified in the free cash requests from various departments last year. And so the ones that we were able to success successfully pass onto the state budget, we funded that way.
▶ 29:39 Maya Jamaleddine: Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other question? Seeing none, what is Councilor Stewart?
▶ 29:45 Robb Stewart: Thank you Madam Chair. Um, make a motion to recommend to the full council.
▶ 29:48 Maya Jamaleddine: Second, we have a motion, uh, to recommend made by Councilor Stewart, seconded by Councilor Chetty On discussion. Seeing none. Madam Perk.
▶ 30:04 Speaker 2: Councilor Gar? Yes. Councilor Stewart? Yes. Councilor Chetty. Yes. Councilor Reky. Yes. Councilor Van Deve? Yes. Councilor Romanul? Yes. President Meli? Yes. Councillor Jamine? Yes. Motion passes.
▶ 30:21 Maya Jamaleddine: Thank you. This motion passes. Thank you, mayor. And next, uh, we have ID number 12 24 1 FY 25 municipal, a DA improvement grant acceptance in the amount of 38,000, uh, dollars to address accessibility issues at Merose High School and Mann, uh, elementary school.