The Eloy Cemetery Committee met on Friday, June 27, 2025, at 4:01 p.m. (noted as 3:15 p.m. on the agenda) in the Eloy City Council Chambers. The meeting included a Director’s Report on cemetery operations, approval of past minutes, and appointment of committee officers. No public comments were received.
Note: The agenda listed a 3:15 p.m. start, but the chair called the meeting to order at 4:01 p.m.
Natasha, when you're ready. Okay. Bang first. Okay, I called this I called the meeting of the Ela Cemetery Board to order at four oh one on February Friday, June twenty-seventh, twenty twenty-five. Could we all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? Yeah, yeah. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Tidwell. Present. Mr. Paulson. Present. Vice Chair Tidwell. Here. Thank you. Okay. Are there any appearances from the floor? No. Okay. No appearances from the floor. Let's move on to item five, director's report. Paul. So we appreciate you making those accommodations for staff as well as yourselves. Uh in addition to that, we offer some information on cemetery maintenance as well, as well as any events that we have may have had at the uh cemetery. Uh so from July 1 to present, uh cemetery staff has conducted 88 burials, uh set 16 headstones, uh, as well as port 52 foundations. Uh that includes Jerry and and his crew, which are a crew of what would that be, Jerry? Six six employees. Yeah, in addition to that, we've also processed 48 miscellaneous work orders. Uh that includes drilling of foundations for flowers, so we drill holes in the foundations for flowers, as well as mounting flower vases and other miscellaneous things. Uh in the way of cemetery maintenance, you'll notice that we are irrigation at the uh cemetery, our irrigation efforts have increased. Uh I just wanted to warn the committee that with that often comes um risks of the grave sinking, especially the new graves that have been dug. Um you may have heard this took place uh just prior to uh Father's Day. Um there were some postings on social media. Um know that staff will be doing our best effort to try to get in those areas to backfill these graves, but when the ground saturated, it's really difficult to get our equipment in those areas and backfill because we end up creating more damage uh than we do actually um solving the issues. Um we were fortunate enough to have Jerry and someone else come out the Saturday before Father's Day, and actually we're able to backfill uh four of those grave sites uh that had sunken. Um so just please keep that in mind. This is normal as the ground gets saturated, especially any areas that are new, or in this case we have a new section. Um we'll all we'll see sinking that takes place, but we'll do our best to rectify that as fast as we can. Um just for your information, we did remove two pine trees at the cemetery. These were damaged a couple of years ago due to a micro burst that it took place at one of our monsoon storms. Uh we do plan on replacing those trees uh next fiscal if possible. Those trees can arrange at those if we're able to purchase large trees, they can range anywhere from 15 to 25,000, including installation, depending on the size of tree that you purchase. And thirdly, you may have noticed that we as part of our pavement preservation program that we did have a YSC pavement on site, and they paved the majority of the cemetery area. Uh that was part of our capital improvement plan. Um that project costs just uh under 17,000 dollars. Uh we do have section B remaining that we'll pave. Uh that section was chip seal, so that uh requires a different application. So we hope to address that either this fiscal or the following.