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10 However, we could not have the opening as planned, until a watering system was in place. Beginning in February, Ms. Elwell asked a local engineer for a plan for the watering system so that the project could go to bid. The engineering report was not ready until June 1st, and the project still has to be bid. There must be a quicker way to get a plan for laying pipes in this small new section. It is so situated that the pipes could easily come off the Perkins Street line and could be metered. Last, the roads are in primitive condition. Every spring, after heavy rains, ruts deepen until, in some places, one risks scraping the undersides of a car to drive on the roads. And, although these roads are supposedly the responsibility of the Parks and Recreation Department, the cemetary roads are apparently way "down the list" as far as priority is concerned. It is a matter, not of days, but weeks to months between the time Ms. Elwell processes an order and when the work is finally accomplished. In the future, we must think of black-topping these roads--which, again, would be cheaper in the long run. We note that $l50,000 has been proposed for inclusion in the bond issue for a new watering system. Whether that will be enough is a moot point. How those citizens who have been paying all the fees over the years will react to this request is anybody's guess. We have a Trust Agreement, that people have been paying into since 1961, which promises that we will maintain the Cemetary--both the individual lots and the Cemetary as a whole.