Key Actions & Decisions

• ◆ • Dec. 11, 2024: Board adopted Resolution 2024-31 nunc pro tunc, stating in words rather than digits that "Two Hundred Forty-Eight Thousand Three Hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-eight cents," plus recording fees and survey costs, was withdrawn from the cemetery's unrestricted "CM" fund (then totaling $250,874.58) to complete the purchase of 35.205 acres adjoining Mount Albion Cemetery from Patricia Nelson at $7,000.00 per acre; deed recorded Nov. 8, 2024
• ◆ • The purchase followed a year of incremental votes: authorizing the attorney to pursue at least 40 acres (Feb. 28, 2024, carried, Riley/Barry/McMurray aye, Javier and Buczek absent); agreeing to $7K an acre for the parcel south of the cemetery (April 30, 2024, carried); approving a purchase agreement with Nelson for "approximately 30" acres (June 29, 2024, carried); and scheduling and holding a public hearing (Oct. 9 and Oct. 23, 2024, both carried, no public comment) on spending up to $250K in cemetery reserves
• ◆ • Board separately directed DPW to physically mark the new cemetery boundary "per survey" using GIS, rebar and other means
• ◆ • Cemetery deed-signing motions — transferring individual burial plots to named families — recur across dozens of meetings in the 2023-2026 record, the recurring revenue source behind the reserve fund
• ◆ • Cemetery equipment: two weed eaters purchased 2023; a Cyclone Rake, utility cart, salt spreader and door panels surplused 2024; $410.95 credited to reserves from a scrap sale; a $40,450.00 excavator purchased 2025 from cemetery reserves
• ◆ • Staffing: an MEO position at the cemetery filled ahead of a retirement effective June 29, 2023; a Laborer vacancy advertised April 13, 2026, then filled by hiring John Kingdollar April 22, 2026, under the DPW union contract on a 52-week probation starting April 23, 2026
• ◆ • A rental apartment on cemetery grounds: unit-transfer paperwork approved for its tenant Sept. 25, 2024; deputy mayor authorized to sign a notice of eviction for that tenant Feb. 5, 2025
• ◆ • As of the board's May 27, 2026 agenda, both "Deeds-Attorney" and "Cemetery apartment-Attorney" remained listed as open matters for the village attorney