I raised this issue a few weeks ago when it was tossed out...I only want to
caution everyone as to the ramifications of mandating the issue of perpetual
care. The true meaning of perpetual care is to not touch the money and to work
off of the interest. As I mentioned previously, this is not realistic with
today's practices and expenses. Our forefathers had no idea what it would cost
to maintain these burying grounds 100 years later. If we push the issue of
the perpetual care to the extent of the law, many of us, and I mean us as those
on this list that sit on cemetery associations, could easily be in violation
as we are currently using the principle to operate our cemetery. The
alternative would be to drastically increase the cost of burial lots and/or allow less
maintenance to occur due to the money being tied up and unavailable. I hope
we don't make things worse for those groups (who are probably in the majority)
that have had to make exceptions to their original covenants just to make ends
meet.
And I have a question for the township trustees....how does the perpetual
care regulations pertain to township owned cemeteries? Are you all in
compliance?
I just hate to see everyone penalized because of a few bad apples...
Kyle