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KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: The Township Advisory Board seeks to install a stone sign to inform the passing public of the cemetery's name and location. The contractor is to be responsible for insuring that no burial remains are in the proposed sign location. The staff believes the sign informing the public as proposed is an excellent idea. We do however proffer two additional suggestions -they are as follows: 1. The contractor seek the assistance of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Archaeologist specializing in historic cemetery research in determining the proper location for the sign. 2. That the back or the side of the sign record when and by whom the sign was installed, to ensure that it communicates an accurate view of history to visitors. (Perhaps a small metal plaque could be affixed to it in some convenient place). Staff recommends that this application be approved, if conditions one and two are met. Discussion was then held among commission members; the important points of this discussion.were as follows: 1. Where the sign is to be located. 2. Whether to have an archaeologist from (I.D.N.R.) come in and have a survey done to insure that there are no burial plots where the sign is to be located. DENNIS MURPHY: I am Dennis Murphy from Lehman and Lehman, Inc. The advisory board has hired us to put together a sign. We went through both sites. The first one is at Ironwood Road and Roosevelt Road. When the cemetery was first built the roads were only a dirt path. Today with the way the right -of -ways go through, the sign couldn't fit anywhere else except for where we had placed it. The reason we had placed it in this spot was because, the entire Advisory Board -there is group of about seven of us -went through the entire cemetery and we had a professional help us mark Cut where some body would be buried from all the lines of the cemetery to the stores. That location is the only spot that had no stone remnant or a base of a stone remnant because it was next to a very large tree; and that is where the one sign is going. For the other site the sign is going to go adjacent to the parking lot driveway, so that it will be out of the way. Discussion was held among commission members about whether there is an official record or list of the individuals that are buried in the cemetery and what procedures should be taken to insure that there are no burial plots marked or unmarked in the location where the sign is to be installed. JOANN SPORLEDER: I move that 2002 - 0731 -1; Rohrer Cemetery,the location that is located on the provided map for the sign, be approved. JOHN OXIAN: I second the motion. GERALD UJDAK: All those in favor say aye. All those against say nay. Motion carries unanimously. 3