Cemetery Board

We are always hearing from the city leaders, and those who support them, that the people on MUSA and other "negative" complainers (their words on some of their posts) never cooperate with the city officials. We had some folks, including Ms. Moon, who wanted to participate in work sessions at this cemetery. Ms. Moon states in her post that she had to jump through hoops and get permission from three different department heads to have people VOLUNTEER to help the city out. I would imagine that they could get some volunteers to do the only thing they do to the cemetery- cut the grass. I would volunteer to do that on a Sat. morning if I had a riding mower available.I could haul it to the cemetery in my pick-up. I have a trimmer and finishing mower for around the grave sites. (You will need to open the gates on Saturdays for me to accomplish this Ms. Gilleland)

Here we have a situation where some citizens from the "negative" group (MUSA), want to contribute and help the city accomplish a task, free to the city, and get nothing but crap from the people at the city building. Can you anti-MUSA people explain why your buddies at city hall are preventing people from helping their city save money? I thought your gripe was that we don't want to cooperate with the city. In this case, the city is the un-cooperative one.

If you want the city to clean up the cemetery, just park a couple of  trailers there. "They will Come"

Vet
   The City was opening and closing the gates Mon-Fri and Gary Barge did the gates Sat-Sun.
    A couple of weeks ago several people called me and told me the gates to the cemetery were open. When I called downtown they said they had received to many complaints because the gates were closed at 3 pm.
  You don’t need a guard, you just need to open from 8 am- dusk same as Woodside Cemetery and all other cemeteries.
    I don’t think city workers mow anything.

There are many city, townships right around middletown that deal with maintaining cemeteries. They dont create boards to take of what they were elected to . I sit on a private cemetery board , its not hard . Council should take of it .

Thought you had to be resident of Middletown to serve in Boards or Commissions.

Here's an interesting point:

Vivian I COMMEND you and your efforts. But this is the cities responsibility. All communities have this problem they deal with it and not create new boards . One council member said at the last meeting that this board might be better at running the cemetery than council. If he really feels this way maybe he should not be on council. That's just an excuse to keep from making hard decisions. Most important have some respect and morals (council)

It is not logical to me to have a group of citizens that want to volunteer their time to take care of a city responsibility like the cemetery, and then have Council and the city manager shut the door on them when they try to help the city out. If I were on council, I would welcome any and all private citizen efforts to help the city accomplish things like this and do my best to support them. It doesn't make any sense for the city to fight the people. What would be the purpose in this? ......to show who's boss? To keep people in line?...... If so, how childish (and ignorant)

The Middletown Cemetery Vault was built about 1870
I have found no records of any repairs to the vault since 1947.
The Miltonville Cemetery Vault was built in 1882 by the same stone mason and still has the original slate roof, cupola and steel doors.

Probably because the cemetery doesn't effect their bottom line. You can't make money from the dead,unless of course your in the funeral business.