PWM19650818•PUBLIC WELFARE COMMITTEE
MEETING HELD AUGUST 18, 1965
CALLED TO ORDER AT 3:45 PM. ALDERMAN BUDISH, AS CHAIRMAN,
ALONG WITH MAYOR GOTTFRIED AND ALDERMEN HUDZIAK AND DEANGELIS
WERE IN ATTENDANCE.
• GUESTS: WILLIAM GROTJAN, ARTHUR ODE, AND FIRE CHIEF LUDWIG.
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LUTHER PARKER CEMETERY: MR. Wm. GROTJAN (NATURALIST) AND MR.
ARTHUR ODE (BOTONICAL SUPERVISOR, COUNTY PARK COMMISSION) WERE
INTRODUCED TO THE COMMITTEE AND SUBSEQUENTLY RELATED PERTINENT
FACTS REGARDING THE EXTREME VALUE OF THE CEMETERY AREA, IN CON-
JUNCTION WITH SHOWING PICTURE SLIDES TO ILLUSTRATE THE SUBJECT
MATTER. IT WAS POINTED OUT BY MESSRS• GROTJAN AND ODE THAT THE
PRAIRIE TYPE SOIL AND PLANT LIFE IS ALMOST EXTINCT, AND OF THE
VALUE IT IS TO MANKIND TO DETERMINE HOW THIS SOIL WAS CREATED.
MANKIND KNOWS WHAT MAKES UP THE SOIL, BUT NOT HOW IT IS CREATED -
MORE PARTICULARLY, ITS CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS. MANY DEEP SOIL
RELICS EXIST IN THE LUTHER PARKER CEMETERY AND THESE GENTLEMEN
WERE CONCERNED TO OBTAIN SEEDS TO REPRODUCE AN ACTUAL SIX (6)
ACRE PRAIRIE IN WHITNALL PARK. THIS REPRODUCTION WOULD TAKE
SEVERAL DECADES, IN THEIR OPINION.
ALSO DISCUSSED WAS THE POSSIBILITY THAT A SIGN COULD BE ERECTED
AT THE CEMETERY BY THE 30TONICAL GARDENS GROUP STATING THAT THE
CEMETERY IS UNDER THEIR SUPERVISION, AND WHY THE FOILAGE IS NOT
CUT. MR. GROTJAN SUGGESTED THE USE OF PRAIRIE ROSES INSTEAD OF
MULTA-FLORE ROSES FOR A FENCE ON THE PERIMETERS OF THE CEMETERY.
THE COMMITTEE THUS EXTENDED THEIR GRATITUDE TO THESE GENTLEMEN
FOR THEIR CONCERN, AND THE GUESTS LEFT THE MEETING.
COPY OF COMMUNICATION FROM CHAIRMAN BUDISH TO MR. MCVEY, FISH &
WILDLIFE MGR., WAS READ AND PLACED ON FILE.
DEPT, OF PUBLIC WELFARE (WAUKESHA CO. GROUP): VOUCHER AFFIDAVIT
RECEIVED FOR JULY CHARGES FOR THE AMOUNT OF $615.04. THIS COM-
MITTEE TO FORWARD SAID VOUCHER TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND CALL
THEIR ATTENTION TO THE CREDIT DUE UNDER THE REVOLVING FUND ASSES-
MENT OF JULY IN THE AMOUNT OF $975.00.
COMMUNICATION TO MR. VAN SKYHOCK FROM SEC'Y DEANGELIS READ. IT
APPEARS THE AREA IS CLEANED UP AND, CONSEQUENTLY NO FURTHER ACTION
IS NECESSARY AT THIS TIME.
WAUIESHA COUNTY HEALTH DEPT: A REPORT ON ALL THE ACTIVITIES OF
THIS DEPT. WAS RECEIVED AND PLACED ON FILE. OUR CITY HAD 43
BIRTHS AND 14 DEATHS DURING THE MONTHS OF APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE.
COMMUNICATIONS TO MESSRS. WAVER AND LUDWIG REQUESTING THEM TO
ATTEND THIS MEETING WAS READ. BECAUSE MR. WAVER COULD NOT ATTEND,
THIS REQUESTED MEETING WAS POSTPONED UNTIL THE NEXT REGULAR MEET-
ING OF THE COMMITTEE.
ENTRANCE SIGNS: A GENERAL DISCUSSION RELATED TO THIS SUBJECT FOL-
LOWED. IT WAS FELT BY THE COMMITTEE THAT SOMETHING ALONG THIS
LINE SHOULD BE DONE SOON. IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT POSSIBLY SIX (6)
SIGNS SHOULD BE ERECTED TEMPORARILY. COST OF MATERIAL TO PRE-
FABRICATE TWO SEPERATE STYLES OF SIGNS TO BE OBTAINED BY CHAIR-
MAN BUDISH.
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CEMETERY FENCE: AN ESTIMATE COST IS TO BE ACQUIRED FOR AN
• EARLY AMERICAN ROUND RAIL FENCE" AND GATE (2 RAIL STYLE).
THIS IS THE TYPE OF FENCE THE COMMITTEE FEELS WOULD BE APPRO-
PRIATE FOR THE FRONT PORTIONS OF THE CEMETERY LOT.
THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS, ALDERMAN HUDZIAX MOVED TO
ADJOURN. ALDERMAN RUDISH SECONDED THE MOTION MOTION
CARRIED. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 5:00 PM.
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