JAY – Selectmen are scheduled Monday to consider raising cemetery plot prices from $50 to $100 for nonresidents. That includes perpetual care.

The lot rates are much lower than other places, Town Manager Ruth Marden said.

Taxpayers are subsidizing the costs of the plot.

“We’re proposing lot increases and burial increases,” she said.

Town workers dig the hole, a lot of times by hand because heavy machinery could damage older graves, she said, and fill it back in after the service.

The town has six cemeteries.

“We want to increase the nonresident rate,” Marden said.

A lot of nonresidents are buying lots in Jay because it’s very reasonable.

They also want to increase grave opening from $250 to $275. To open cremation graves the recommended price increased is from $75 to $100 and to open a grave for a child or infant it would be $125.

Also on the agenda for the 6 p.m. meeting at the Community Building is an update on Parker Pond Road and veterans monument.

Marden said town attorney Michael Gentile has researched some of what would need to be done for the town to have public access over Parker Pond Road. More than 370 signatures have been collected on a petition asking selectmen to look into public access to the pond. The road is currently posted except for by written permission and landowners.

Marden said she’s looking for direction on the road.

Resident Hyla Friedman will give selectmen an update on options for turning the veterans memorial in Chisholm into a monument honoring all veterans and public safety workers.

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