Somers Cemetery Committee
Regular meeting
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Town Hall lower meeting room 6:30
AGENDA

1. Call to order:
2 .Members present:
3. Standing moment of silence in memory of all those who perished on 9/11
4. Public comment:
5. Vote to approve minutes from July 2024
6. Committee reports:
a. Finance: Monthly finances,
1. Progress report on Irrevocable Trust
(Review committee choice to be done in new business)
b. Sexton / Jeff Buckley
c. Landscaping/ John Guzie. Wasp nest update.
d. DPW-1. Review possible rewritten bid on Mountain Tree work.
2.- Report on tree & shrub work. (See written report.)
6. Old Business:
a. Concern form(s): Report on resolutions.
b. Landscape architect and RFP list, contract information: update D.
Morgan
c. Digital Data program update: Vendor contract update.
d. Veteran’s Affairs – Report on raising foot stones and/ or government flat
to the ground headstones.
New Business:
a. Finance: Concern form(s) Resolutions requested.
b. Committee members to join Board of Selectmen on vendor interviews re:
choice of investment company for a Trust agreement for Cemetery
Funds.
b. Sexton:
c. DPW – Bid on removal of tree/ shrub stumps New West
d. Discussion, motion, (vote?) on using G & Was the
company to design the outer ring of Center Cemetery. (See Old Business B.)
e. Digital Index program – Discuss what we want as tabs and public writings
and access. Updates.
f. Information on possible irrigation of the center oval of Center Cemetery.
Report from Brian Wissinger/ Danielle Urbon & Todd Rolland. Several
vendors or experts have been requested to give their thoughts.
g. Next meeting items – 2025 calendar, suggestions.
Adjournment:
Next meeting: November 13, 2024
minutes are not official until voted on at the next regularly scheduled meeting.
Patricia Loftus, Committee Chair, interim secretary