As you may have guessed by now, SB 797 was killed in the House Business Regulations sub-committee. I will be receiving a copy of the vote in that sub-committee and posting who voted for what in the near future.
What’s next?
Well, same as usual for us. The volunteers will be trying out a new schedule for maintaining Bonheur. Instead of every Sunday, we will be trying out a marathon mow session one weekend a month to see if that will work as far as keeping the grass to a reasonable level. We certainly don’t expect the owner to lift a finger to help, but if you would like to help, we’ll send out the schedule well in advance. Anyone with lawnmowers are more than welcome, and if you don’t have a lawnmower, come out anyway, we need people who can lift the flowers, ornaments, and other items while we mow.
We will be contacting Senators and Delegates during the “off season” and will be actively lobbying the bill for next year. We hope to have sponsors in both the House and Senate next year so that we can push the bill through both places at once and get it passed finally.
What can you do? Complain. Complain to Howard County, complain to the cemetery oversight committee, complain to your Delegates and Senators, complain, complain, complain! I’ll send out a contact list of people you can complain to throughout the year.
We need people to complain about this problem, because we apparently haven’t made it clear that there is a problem, despite all of our work and press.
I wanted to thank all of you for helping us out this year, and in the next year until the Session starts again in January 2008.
The Bonheur Volunteers
What’s next?
Well, same as usual for us. The volunteers will be trying out a new schedule for maintaining Bonheur. Instead of every Sunday, we will be trying out a marathon mow session one weekend a month to see if that will work as far as keeping the grass to a reasonable level. We certainly don’t expect the owner to lift a finger to help, but if you would like to help, we’ll send out the schedule well in advance. Anyone with lawnmowers are more than welcome, and if you don’t have a lawnmower, come out anyway, we need people who can lift the flowers, ornaments, and other items while we mow.
We will be contacting Senators and Delegates during the “off season” and will be actively lobbying the bill for next year. We hope to have sponsors in both the House and Senate next year so that we can push the bill through both places at once and get it passed finally.
What can you do? Complain. Complain to Howard County, complain to the cemetery oversight committee, complain to your Delegates and Senators, complain, complain, complain! I’ll send out a contact list of people you can complain to throughout the year.
We need people to complain about this problem, because we apparently haven’t made it clear that there is a problem, despite all of our work and press.
I wanted to thank all of you for helping us out this year, and in the next year until the Session starts again in January 2008.
The Bonheur Volunteers
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