Committee backs license agreement so 'friends' group can maintain East End and Evergreen cemeteries

The committee voted to forward ordinance 20 26 1 94 to council to execute a license agreement with Friends of East End Cemetery Inc. Parks director Chris Froelke described the agreement as the final symbolic step after community meetings, property transfer to public ownership, and a cultural landscape study.

Froelke said the friends group has secured funding and the agreement grants them rights of entry to make improvements on the burial grounds. "This paper here today is that last symbolic thing that we can make sure we have in place that gives them the right of entry so that they can make these improvements on the sacred burial grounds," he said. The committee held a public hearing with no speakers and recommended approval to council.