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<br /> 9 <br /> Consider the practicality of putting in an automatic <br /> sprinking system, on a time r. Then, it can be set to turn on <br /> at midnight and turn off at 2:00 or 3:00 A. M., depending on <br /> the amount of rainfall--and you can forget about hoses and <br /> sprinklers and reduce labor costs. (At least half of the <br /> caretaker's time is spent moving hoses and little sprinklers <br /> around.) After that, the maintenance to be paid for would <br /> be mowing and weeding only--about half of the work now con- <br /> tracted. The automatic sprinkling system on a timer would pay <br /> for itself in a few years by the reduced cost of maintenance, <br /> and the new automatic sprinkler heads are flat on the ground, <br /> ~ <br /> /' .:¿.v <br /> and :~J.. no hazard to mowers. <br /> Next, in order of urgency, roads and fences are needed. <br /> Much of the present fencing is old, broken-down barbed wire <br /> (which has been illegal in the City limits for some time) and <br /> which is held up now only by a mass of weed growth. Part of <br /> the cemetary had no fence at all until one small section was <br /> fenced this year with funds from Ms. Elwell's department. <br /> It was our plan to open a new section of the cemetary <br /> this spring--The Dixon Additionl. This new section is needed <br /> because the graves remaining for sale in the old part of the <br /> cemetary are undesirable lots which no one wants to buy, <br /> according to Ms. Elwell. We thought, last December, that with <br /> the Revenue Sharing funds in the amount of $30,000 for a <br /> sprinkler system, we could have a public ceremony on this <br /> past Memorial Day to highlight public awareness of the cemetary. <br />