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Home My WebLink About1994-20 Cemetery Fees RESOLUTION NO. 94- ~ A RESOLUTION SETTING PRICES FOR CEMETERY SERVICES THE CITY OF ASHLAND RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS: ANNOTATED TO SNOW DELETIONS AND ADDITIONS. DELETIONS ARE LINED TNROUCH AND ADDITIONS ARR ~i. SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE FOLLOWING PRICES SHALL BE CHARGED BY THE CITY OF ASHLAND CEMETERY DEPARTMENT EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1994. Sales of grave spaces or burial plots: Grave spaces - lawn section Grave spaces - monument section Grave spaces - baby land Niches - bronze Niches - marble Urn garden grave Crypts $ 325.00 425.00 100.00 140.00 800.00 The above fees are split with 40% going into the Cemetery Fund and 60% placed into the Cemetery Trust Fund. Perpetual care-lots sold before 1927 Sales of liners and markers: Concrete liner including setting i~!~!~i~i~ 200.00 Concrete liners other Mortuaries-Cemeteries i~!~i~ii!ii~i 125.CC Final inscriptions - minimum 100.00 Grave markers-wholesale cost times 2.5 not to exceed markup of 600.00 Grave marker setting- Plastic base 75.00 Grave marker setting- Concrete Base 115.00 Set~in~ ~rav~-..markeI'~-~n~ 500.00 pet' .,~K]U;-'rC-;nch. C.25 All grave marker setting income is split with 50% paid into the perpetual care fund. Sexton fees Opening and closing graves- ground opening and closing graves- double deep Opening and closing graves- infants opening and closing crypts Opening closed crypts Opening and closing niches Inter cremains in grave spaces Extra for Saturday burials Disinternment (Paid in advance) 100.00 400.00 $ 1,000.00 Cemetery fees will be subject to a 1.5% finance charge per month if not paid within 60 days of use. All above services will be sold pre-need in installments, interest free, with a minimum monthly payment of one twelfth of the total sale. SECTION 2. Resolution No. 91-13 is hereby repealed, effective April 30, 1994. SECTION 3. Classification of the fee. The fee specified in Section 1 of this resolution is classified as not subject to the limits of Section llb of Article XI of the Oregon Constitution (Ballot Measure 5). The foregoing resolution was READ and DULY ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Ashland on the ~7~ day of SIGNED and APPROVED this , 1994. __ day of ~/j , 1994. Golden, Mayor Paul Nolte, City Attorney Z ~ ~o~o~ ~ III March 31, 1994 Mayor, and City Council Jill Turner, Director of Finance Cemetery Charges RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that Mayor and Council approve the attached Resolution increasing Cemetery fees. DISCUSSION: The 1994-95 Cemetery budget calls for an increase in cemetery fees. The present fee schedule was established in April of 1991. The proposed fees were suggested by the Cost of Service Study. In addition Mike Biondi, our Cemetery Superintendent, reviewed fees charged in the Rogue Valley.