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CASE <br /> <br />ADOPT TROTT BROOK CEMETERY SURVEY, RULES & REGULATIONS, <br />AND AUTHORIZE STAFF TO DECLARE PLOTS AVAILABLE FOR BURIAL <br />By: Jason J. Schmidt, Management Intern <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />Over the past year, a citizens committee has been meeting with city staff for the purposes <br />of updating the Trott Brook Cemetery burial inventory and creating a management plan <br />for the cemetery. <br /> <br />As discussed at the Council Work Session on June 21, 2005, the City contracted with <br />Hakanson Anderson to update the Trott Brook Cemetery land and plat survey. Hakanson <br />Anderson's survey crew located the grave markers, trees, and other topographic features <br />within the cemetery. Braun Intertec assisted Hakanson Anderson by utilizing ground- <br />penetrating radar to determine accurate burial locations. The results of both surveys are <br />shown on the Sketch of Trott Brook Cemetery, which is attached. Staff is seeking <br />Council direction regarding accepting the survey as drawn and recording the survey as <br />official record of the plots and burials within the cemetery. <br /> <br />Trolt Brook Cemetery Inventory <br /> <br />Staff and committee members referenced numerous records in the research for the burial <br />inventory, they include: <br /> <br />· Anoka County Genealogical Society <br />· Minnesota and Anoka County Historical Society <br />· Trott Brook Cemetery Records <br />· Funeral Home Records <br />· Trott Brook Genealogy Report <br />· Trott Brook Cemetery Burial Descendants <br /> <br />From these records and the ground-penetrating radar, 163 known burials were recorded <br />within the cemetery along with one unknown burial for a total of 164 burials. The <br />cemetery has 60 plots, with six lots in each plot for 360 possible burial lots. The <br />historical records and ground-penetrating radar revealed that some sites had multiple <br />burials within a lot. Sixteen of the 60 plots were determined to be full by either the total <br />number of burials within the plot or the uncertainty of the location of burials Within the <br />plot. <br /> <br />The remaining plots contain 170 open lots. Of the 170 open lots, 33 are unowned open <br />lots, 41 lots are depicted by the City Cemetery Records as being owned by an individual <br />or family within the past 50 years, and 96 lots are depicted on the window shade as <br />having potential ownership but no activity in the past 50 years. The window shade is the <br /> <br />-211- <br /> <br /> <br />