Staff recommends motion to approve resolution adjusting Mountview Cemetery's fees. 

Mountview Cemetery is supplemented by the General Fund by an average of $360k / annually.
Current level of funding allows staff to apply best practice maintenance standards, as well as small improvement projects. 
Resolution submitted to increase Mountview Cemetery fees/prices 10%/year, each of the next 5 years, in order to decrease the cemetery reliance on the general fund.

Proposal presented to finance committee on 7/12/2023. Committee indicated it would recommend approval of proposed cemetery fees.

City Council may:

• Approve; or,
• Not Approve

• With no change to cemetery prices we can expect to continue to operate with a $360k deficit
• A 10% increase reduces deficit to $352k, 50% increase to a $307k deficit, 400% increase for full cost recovery, assuming sales remain consistent.
• Propose decrease in cost of infant graves and infant burials. With an average of less than one infant burial/year, proposed decrease would have a negligible effect on cemetery revenue.
• Proposed new fee for second rite of interment (burial of cremains on a relatives grave) estimated to generate $7k/year.
• Proposed vault sales/access fee estimated to generate $8k-$20k/year

 

Recommend approval of cemetery fee resolution which will increase cemetery fees and implement additional service fees. With these changes, it is estimated the cemetery budget deficit would decrease from $360k to $285k by FY29.