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Maintenance Plan: The Maintenance Plan addresses recommendations for short and long term improvements. These short-term tasks include such items as removal of overgrown or poorly formed plants, pruning trees and shrubs, add flowering plants at the monument sign, adding shrubs or groundcover where appropriate removal and replacement of badly sunken concrete grave covers, install new gravel over new graves or when replacing or augmenting existing graves, etc. Long-term tasks include new and replacement trees, a new water efficient irrigation and determining CEQA requirements. Operations Rules and Regulations: Currently there is not a policy governing grave decoration and improvements, thus creating a very eclectic look throughout the cemetery. The proposed Operations Rules and Regulations address operation hours, sales, supplies and services, internment details, care of the cemetery; including flowers, decorations, plantings and transfer or disposal of cemetery property. Long Term and Immediate Funding: The Pleasanton Pioneer Cemetery Master Plan represents a comprehensive plan that provides a guide for the future of the Pleasanton Pioneer Cemetery. Based on the financial plan, costs required for improvements, immediate and ongoing maintenance and operations identified in the Master Plan would be met with revenues generated from the sale of new burial plots. It is estimated through the preliminary research that the proposed improvements would not have an impact of the City's budget; however, it is recommended that as expansion plans are considered a more refined financial plan is developed. Based on the above, staff is recommending the City Council authorize staff to begin with administrative and professional services as detailed in the Master Plan. However, based on staffs analysis at this time, not all of the tasks itemized in the report are necessary at this time and therefore staff is recommending funding for the following tasks: Summary of Recommended Tasks Task Cost Grave Mapping $65,000 Acquisition of a sales, tracking and $35,000 mapping database Upgrade of grave pinning system $5,000 Geotechnical testing $18,000 Review of soils and ground cover $35,000 enhancements Environmental review $2,500 Contingency $9,500 Total $170,000 Funding for these tasks would come from the current Cemetery Fund (366-900) which has an estimated fund balance of$393,081. Page 5of6