MARTINS FERRY — Council Member Tom Burns told council Wednesday evening about his recent research into alternative ways to the use of cemeteries and traditional burial rites.
Burns spoke of columbariums that were recently brought to his attention regarding the City of Steubenville and its use of mausoleums. Burns feels it’s a matter of time when space will be a problem at Martins Ferry’s Riverview Cemetery.
Burns said he would be calling a few contacts to see what kind of cost they were looking at.
He said the costs for one urn ranges from $850 to $2,200 with various factors influencing the costs.
“But it’s something I’d like to look into,” Burns said. “The goal is to sell them out in three to five years,” in regards to urn spaces as he felt there were a growing number of cremations versus traditional burials in recent years.
Burns, who is the chairman of the city’s cemetery committee, said he would like to call a meeting once he has all his research done where he can present his proposal to council.
Service Director Andy Sutak said Mayor John Davies, who was not present, had also raised the issue of having a mausoleum at the cemetery where the tennis courts used to be.
Council Member Rick Rodgers said he’d inquired about columbariums and quoted one price at around $30,000 where five “niches” had been sold for more than $4,000 in just one week’s time. Burns agreed that many could be sold.
Burns later said he wants time to see how the Steubenville Diocese did their project before coming to council with any further ideas.
“We have to do something,” he said the following day. “Those are the things we need to do.”
Also tackled halfway through the meeting was sidewalks and who actually owns them, the city or the resident. Rodgers asked council for an explanation after he’d done some research in the codified ordinance book with no clear answers.
“And I need a clarification or guidance to go to, about who actually owns the sidewalks in town?” Rodgers asked. “Was there a variance given to property owners for the sidewalk? Do we own them?”
He felt that the property the sidewalk sits on is the property owner’s responsibility for maintenance but repeated his question of who owns the sidewalks. Solicitor Paul Stecker said that at least in the downtown area and the town in general, though he said there may be some exceptions, that the property owners do own the sidewalk.
“The city has a right-of-way over all or a portion of it, depending on the area again, but the property owner owns it,” he explained. Burns said the city is responsible for maintaining and cleaning the sidewalks “and to repair.”
“But our boundaries do not include the sidewalk,” Burns told council. Rodgers was satisfied with their explanations and no further discussion on the matter took place.
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