HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-01ORDINANCE 2016-01
Ordinance Establishing the Cost of Cemetery Lots
and the Distribution of Proceeds from Lot Sales
WHEREAS, the Town's Cemetery Board of Trustees recommended to Town Council that the
price of cemetery lots in the Town should be increased from $400 to $600 to provide increased
funds for cemetery maintenance and the perpetual care fund; and,
WHEREAS, the Cemetery Board further recommended to Town Council that the proceeds from
the sale of lots be split evenly between the perpetual care fund and the operating funds used to
maintain the cemeteries; and,
WHEREAS, the Town Council conducted a duly -noticed public hearing on December 1, 2015,
to solicit and receive public comment concerning the recommendations of the Cemetery Board;
NOW THEREFORE be it ORDAINED by the Town Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia,
sitting in regular session this 5th day of January 2016 that the cost for all cemetery lots in
Oakwood Cemetery, the Oakwood Addition, Pinehurst Cemetery and the Pinehurst Addition
shall be six hundred dollars ($600).
FURTHER ORDAINED, that the proceeds from the sale of cemetery lots shall be split evenly
with fifty percent (50%) of the proceeds to be placed in the perpetual care fund and the
remaining fifty percent (50%) of the sale proceeds to be placed in the designated operating
funds for maintenance of the cemeteries;
This ordinance is effective upon adoption and is hereby adopted this 5th day January 2016 by
the duly recorded vote of the Town Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia as follows:
Heather L. Steele
- Aye
Gregory C. East
- Aye
David L. Clark
- Aye
ATTEST:
Patricia Cruise, Clerk of Council
H.M. Kidd - Aye
James A. Radcliffe - Aye
Lane R. Penn - Aye
THE TOWN OF PULASKI, VIRGINIA
BY:
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,��Teffiff'ey S. Worrell, Mayor