HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOUNCIL - AGENDA ITEM - 08/15/2000 - FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 100, 2000, AMENDING AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY ITEM NUMBER: 19
FORT COLLINS CITY COUNCIL DATE: August 15, 2000STAFF:
Philip Carpenter
SUBJECT:
First Reading of Ordinance No. 100, 2000, Amending Article V, Section 23-156 of the City Code
and Repealing Certain Rules and Regulations Relating to the Abandonment of Burial Spaces at
Grandview and Roselawn Cemeteries.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends adoption of the Ordinance on First Reading.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
This Ordinance will allow the cemeteries to reclaim approximately 1,800 grave spaces in which no
interment has occurred and no perpetual care fee has been paid. Most of these graves spaces were
sold before 1926 and the owners, heirs or assigns of these spaces have not contacted the Cemetery
to date.
BACKGROUND:
When Grandview Cemetery was established in 1887 the City did not collect perpetual care fees as
a condition of purchase or burial. The Cemetery has been maintaining approximately 1,800 graves
for the past 75 to 100 years. By adopting the Ordinance and changing the Rules and Regulations,
the Grandview Cemetery can reclaim and resell these grave sites with a perpetual care fee. This will
extend the Cemetery's use for 20 more years, as well as cover the cost of maintaining the grave
spaces. At the present rate of sales, without the reclamation of these grave spaces, the Cemetery
would be sold out of spaces in ten years. The Cemetery is almost sold out of side by side spaces,and
the largest share of the 1,800 spaces could be used for side by side burials. At today's prices, this
would generate revenues of$1,175,400. It would also increase the perpetual care fund by$520,200.
These spaces are needed to sustain Grandview Cemetery for the next 20 years.
ORDINANCE NO. 100, 2000
. OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING ARTICLE V, SECTION 23-156 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF
FORT COLLINS AND REPEALING CERTAIN RULES AND REGULATIONS
RELATING TO THE ABANDONMENT OF BURIAL SPACES AT
GRANDVIEW AND ROSELAWN CEMETERIES
WHEREAS, the City operates two cemeteries, Grandview Cemetery and Roselawn
Cemetery, as part of its Cultural, Library and Recreation Services (CLRS); and
WHEREAS, on March 5, 1996,the Council adopted Ordinance No. 20, 1996,updating the
Rules and Regulations Governing Grandview and Roselawn Cemeteries; and
WHEREAS, the provisions regarding abandonment of burial spaces contained within the
rules and regulations of the cemeteries do not adequately address the abandonment procedures for
burial spaces purchased prior to 1983; and
WHEREAS,there are approximately 1,800 burial spaces within Grandview Cemetery which
have had no activity and in which no perpetual fee care has been paid since those said burial spaces
were purchased; and
WHEREAS, approximately 1,600 of these burial spaces were purchased prior to 1925; and
WHEREAS, Section 15.1 of the Rules and Regulations requires any amendments or
modifications to said regulations be adopted by ordinance of the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to codify the regulations governing the abandonment and
reclamation of burial spaces within its municipal cemeteries,and to repeal the rules and regulations
presently in place with regard to this subject.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended by the addition
of a new section, to be numbered Section 23-158, which section shall read as follows:
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Section 2. That Section 8.10(Abandoned Burial Spaces) of the Rules and Regulations
governing Grandview and Roselawn Cemeteries is hereby repealed.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 15th day of
August, A.D. 2000, and to be presented for final passage on the 5th day of September, A.D. 2000.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 5th day of September, A.D. 2000.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk