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Management and Funding of Rural Cemeteries Policy

Reference: P93-012            
Status: Approved by the Council on 13 December 1993

That having considered the report of the Parks Services Manager on the proposed policies for funding assistance for rural cemeteries, the Council resolves that as a matter of policy:

a) To allocate a level of funding in each year's Annual Plan (Note: An allocation of $4,000.00 has been made in the 1993/94 Community Services Department Annual Plan Page 44);

b) The trustees, if they have not been appointed as required under the Burials and Cremations Act 1964, be asked to supply names of people willing to be trustees, so that the Council can appoint these and publicly notify the appointments, as required in the Act;

c) Out of the proposed funding, the Council make annual grants to assist with the operating costs,  such amounts to be based on the requirements of each Board and will be reviewed annually;

d) Parks Division cemetery staff assist/advise Cemetery Boards on an "as required" basis;

e) To receive the agreed annual grant, the Boards be required to forward a copy of their previous year's annual accounts to the Community Services Manager for his approval;

f) If, in the future, the district supporting the local Board cannot operate for some reason, the operation be taken over by the Council;

g) If, in the future, a district with a rural cemetery which does not have trustees managing it, wishes to set up a Board of Trustees, they be assisted and supported by the Council according to these policies, and that;

h) Trustees, as appointed, operate in the capacity (collectively) of a Liaison Committee to the Council through the Community Services Manager.

Reviewed three yearly (next review 2012).