CEMETERY: Look back for clarity

Gene Retter wrote a recent letter in support of the Post Falls Cemetery.

I would like to add that the problem with the cemetery began more than 30 years ago, although the cemetery at that time was being managed well and had a healthy bank account.

Then what was the problem?

The Parks & Recreation Department was running a significant deficit at that time. This was about 1979 or 1980. Solution? The City Council combined the Cemetery Board and Parks & Recreation Department so that the money could be drained away from the cemetery fund in order to make Parks & Recreation solvent.

Now the current City Council is considering privatizing the city cemetery because it is no longer considered profitable.

Duh!

A word of caution. My grandparents bought cemetery plots in another state in the 1940s from a company which had established a privately run cemetery nearby. Within 10 years the company disappeared and the cemetery was overgrown with brush and weeds.

BOB RIDOUT

Hayden