Raymond Voter Information Project

Article 23

Cemetery Fund Allocation

Click HERE for direct link to the text of Town Warrant Article (revised at Town Deliberative Session Feb. 6, 2010).

Amended at Town Deliberative Session Feb. 6, 2010

This article would authorize the division of cemetery plot fees as follows: 50 percent to an expendable trust for maintenance and upkeep, 50 percent to an expendable trust for cemetery expansion.

A YES VOTE would require proceeds from the sale of cemetery lots to be divided as described above.
A NO VOTE would leave the proceeds divided at approximately 71% maintenance and upkeep, 29% percent expendable trust.

Pro

• Burial plot proceeds would help maintain the cemetery as well as individual lots with perpetual care, requiring less expense to the general fund.

•Burial plot proceeds would help pay for cemetery expansion.

Con

• The cemetery lawns and roads are already maintained as part of the general fund under the regular cemetery maintenance fund.

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