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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Board of Cemetery Trustees
Date: 2014 -03 -11
Building: Reading Town Hall
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: General Business
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 6:00 PM
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Location: Berger Room
Janet Baronian, Ron Stortz, William Brown, Mary Vincent, Elise Ciregna,
Olive Hecht
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Robert Keating
Frank Driscoll
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: William Brown
Topics of Discussion:
Town of Reading
Board of Cemetery Trustees
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Pursuant to a meeting legally posted, the meeting of March 11, 2014 convened at 6:00 P.M. in
the Berger Room, 16 Lowell Street, Reading Town Hall.
Present: Janet Baronian, Chairman
Ron Stotz, Vice Chairman
William Brown, Secretary
Mary Vincent
Elise Ciregna
Olive Hecht
Also Present: Robert Keating, Superintendent
Frank Driscoll, Veterans Agent
Review of Past Meeting Minutes
The Minutes of February 4, 2014 were reviewed and approved as corrected by a vote of 6 -0 on a
motion by Elise Ciregna and seconded by Mary Vincent.
General Business
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Veterans Agent Driscoll stated that he has had Veterans inquire about being interred in
veterans' lots (Charles Lawn and Wood End). Bob explained that under the present policy
veterans cannot purchase pre -need and that the policy was modeled after the national policy.
Bill Brown noted that in the past, a veteran husband and wife wanted to purchase lots at Wood
End since they lived in the area.
The Board seemed to be in agreement that perhaps the policy was too restrictive, in light of the
fact that a veteran can purchase pre -need in other sections of the same cemetery. Bob will bring
more information for the next meeting.
On a motion by Bill Brown and seconded by Janet Baronian, it was voted to waive the $100 fee
for installation of veterans markers up to five civil war markers as an in -kind donation for the
Civil War Preservation Grant. The Board also voted to support the restoration of the
markeAcadstones and that a letter be forwarded to Virginia Blodgett, Reading Historical
Commission and the Board of Selectmen by Bob Keating on behalf of the Board.
Bob gave a brief update on the building project and noted that Weston & Sampson was making
a presentation to the Board of Selectmen tonight. Bill Brown advised the Board he was doing a
show and tell for the Forest Glen site after Weston & Sampson.
Receipts
Bob noted that there was a "flurry of receipts ".
Adjourn
The meeting adjourned at 6:35 PM. The next meeting of the Trustees will be Tuesday, April
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Respectfully submitted,
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William C. Brown
Secretary
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