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Letter: Stop the foot-dragging on vets’ cemetery expansion

Thursday, May 8, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

Of the 80 acres available for utilization, 18 are presently in use for Phase I and II plus administration and maintenance buildings. Since the cemetery opened in April, 1990, there have been about 6,000 burials of veterans and family members. For the past three or four years, there has been an annual increase in burials of 100 per year, i.e. 1,021 in 1994 and 1,108 in 1996. Each year since the opening has shown about the same annual increase. The cemetery is rapidly approaching utilization of all available gravesites. Phase III has been in limbo since November, 1996, when bidding and construction was scheduled to commence. As of this date, only the bidding phase has commenced and that only includes a small portion of the projected Phase III. This is due to budgetary shortfall.

I, personally, just do not understand that if the state of Nevada is expecting a rather larger monetary surplus, why sufficient funding cannot be transferred through the discretion of the governor's office, so that the entirety of Phase III can be constructed as rapidly as possible.

L.C. Bauer Jr.

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