WALL LAKE, IOWA – MARCH 28, 2011
A citizen approached the city with complaints about the care of headstones. According to the photos submitted to the council, the headstones have been either chipped at, or have sunk below ground level.
Following is the photographic evidence:
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It was reported that a city maintenance person claims some of the headstones in question are over one-hundred years old and he doesn’t feel that the chipping depicted in the photos is necessarily the result of mower damage, as the citizen claims.
Wall Lake City Councilperson John Morrow opined that the citizen should be sent a letter or in some way communicate that it is not only not the city’s responsibility to fix the sunken headstones, but that due to improper following of code when the original stones were placed, (not enough depth of concrete base,) the citizen should actually be compelled to fix the problem themselves.
The city clerk was directed to send a letter to the complainant, but indicated that he would begin the communication with a phone call.
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