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Photo by unknown via EM Cemetery Upgrades Eagle Mountain Cemetery gets an upgrade October 11, 2017, 8:00 amThe gazebo will be built on a 30-foot square concrete area at the southern end of the cemetery. During previous work on the cemetery, city staff put in water and electrical connections for this project. Because these connections were already in place, the cost of adding the new amenities to the cemetery was reduced. The area around the gazebo will have roughly 11,000 square feet of grass installed. Irrigation will be added for watering the grass and twenty new trees that will also be installed. Fencing was also included to protect any of the irrigation equipment that will be above ground. The funding for the project will come from a few sources including: $14,530.37 from a TRCC (Tourism, Recreation, Cultural and Convention) grant that is administered through Utah County and collected as part of the counties Tourism, Recreation, Cultural and Convention Facilities Tax, $10,000 from the 2017 city budget allocated to the cemetery, $13,895.63 from funds generated by the cemetery and $25,000 from utility sale proceeds allocated previously to the cemetery. The cemetery currently has sold 87 grave sites and has facilitated 25 interments. If you have not been to the cemetery before, it is located in City Center on Eagle Mountain Blvd, west of the Eagle Mountain Blvd and Pony Express roundabout. The city council also approved up to an additional $5,000 above the $63K for the city to use to add some benches and lighting in the area as well. The additional $5,000 will come from money already allocated in the budget to the cemetery. The council and city staff discussed adding a flagpole to the area as well. The council instructed staff to look into the ability to add the flagpole as another project. The cemetery still has funds that will cover the addition of the flagpole without City council approval. The questions that needed to be answered in regards to the flagpole were around the number of poles, three verses a single pole, and if the pole could have two flags instead of just one flag. It was also discussed about the possibility of repurposing a flagpole that is being replaced as part of the Cory Wride Memorial Park improvements. Eagle Mountain has a Cemetery Advisory Board that has been working hard to make the cemetery something that the residents of Eagle Mountain will find beneficial. The board currently has four members, Steve Conger, Jared Gray, Corbett Douglas and Marianne Smith. The city council liaison is Benjamin Reaves. The board meets monthly, with the next meeting being on October 25. The last meeting for 2017 will be held on November 29th and there will not be a meeting in December. Previous upgrades included fencing and an entry monument. The community news source for Eagle Mountain Utah, Saratoga Springs Utah, Lehi Utah, American Fork Utah, Highland Utah, Alpine Utah, and The Cedar Valley, including Cedar Fort Utah and Fairfield Utah. Copyright 2024 The Crossroads Journal LLC. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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