1. Monitor the general care and operations of the City’s Hillside Cemetery, both upper and lower sections (“cemetery”);

2. Monitor the cemetery fund to ensure the long-term financial stability of the fund to meet the cemetery’s maintenance and capital investment needs;

3. Annually review and recommend to the Mayor amounts to be charged for the sale of grave plots and columbaria niches and related service fees;

4. Provide recommendations to the Mayor on improvements of the City Cemetery, including any capital projects, to provide a diversity of burial and memorial options to maximize the use of the cemetery;

5. Ensure the maintenance of an inventory of lots (by map, drawing, or other means) of the cemetery by section, row and grave number by the City’s cemetery provider;

6. Adopt rules and regulations relating to the care, improvement, landscaping, use and respect of cemetery property and provide these rules to the City’s cemetery provider and the City Clerk for publication on the City’s website;

7. Adopt rules and regulations related to standards for headstones and grave or space markers;

8. Upon direction by the Mayor, provide recommendations on potential cemetery expansion;

9. Such other duties and responsibilities as may be directed by the Mayor or City Council. (Ord. 3002 § 1, 2023; Ord. 1560 § 5, 1983).