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OSLO CEMETERY <br />The Board reviewed the following memo dated 6/6/84: <br />TO: The Honorable Members of DATE: June 6, 1984 FILE: <br />the Board of County Commissioners <br />SUBJECT: OSLO CEMETERY <br />FROM: Michael Wright REFERENCES: <br />County Administrator <br />In 1957, the State of Florida transferred to Indian <br />River County the ownership of a 1.2 acre parcel of land <br />known as the Oslo Cemetery. The tract is located at the <br />intersection of Old Dixie Highway and 3rd Street S.W. <br />It has been used as a cemetery for at least sixty <br />(60) years and contains approximately forty (40) to fifty <br />(50) graves. Until recently, the cemetery was largely <br />ignored and overgrown with vegetation. Last year, the <br />Parks Department began mowing the cemetery on a periodic <br />basis. <br />To our knowledge, there is no recorded cemetery I.1at <br />and the County has never transferred or sold a burial <br />space. However, there -has been at least one burial in <br />the past few years. <br />Rather than continue maintenance of the cemetery or <br />open it up for burials, it is the staff recommendation that <br />the cemetery be conveyed to a church with the stipulation <br />that the property continue to be maintained as a cemetery. <br />There is capacity for several hundred more grave sites. <br />RECOMMENDATION: Authorize the staff to dispose of the <br />Oslo Cemetery either by sale or donation to a local church <br />with the understanding the property continue to be main- <br />tained as a cemetery. *The alternative is simply do nothing <br />and continue to periodically mow the cemetery. <br />Chairman Scurlock asked if the possibility exists that <br />County would get the cemetery back if a church does take it <br />over and then doesn't maintain it properly, and <br />Administrator Wright felt the best way to handle it would be <br />to transfer or sell the cemetery with a perpetual care <br />agreement which would ensure proper maintenance as a <br />cemetery. Whoever takes it over would have to maintain and <br />continue its use as a cemetery, and will have to conform to <br />all State laws pertaining to cemeteries. <br />20 <br />He advised that <br />JUN 13 1984 BOOK 57 FAcE412 <br />L_ <br />I <br />