Agenda 08/26/2025 Item #16B 1 (20 Deed Certificates for purchased burial rights at the Lake Trafford Memorial Gardens Cemetery)8/26/2025
Item # 16.B.1
ID# 2025-2389
Executive Summary
Recommendation to authorize the Chairman to execute twenty (20) Deed Certificates for purchased burial rights at Lake
Trafford Memorial Gardens Cemetery and authorize the County Manager or designee to take all actions necessary to
record the Deed Certificates with the Clerk of the Court’s Recording Department.
OBJECTIVE: To ensure that the twenty (20) Deed Certificates presented as part of this item are signed and recorded.
CONSIDERATIONS: Collier County established Lake Trafford Cemetery in December 1964 on 20 acres off Little
League Road in Immokalee. The cemetery was used exclusively for indigent burials until it was opened to the public in
1982. The Board of County Commissioners (the "Board"), formally adopted a cemetery operations policy in July 1982
under Resolution 82-105, which has been amended several times since. The Real Property Management Section, under
the auspices of the County Manager, is responsible for the operation of the Cemetery, which includes preparing and
processing Deed Certificates indicating plot location, after the sale of burial rights to the public. Twenty (20) Deed
certificates have been purchased. This item is to authorize the processing of those Deed Certificates and recognize the
revenue.
This item is consistent with the Quality of Place Element of Collier County's Strategic Plan by supporting access to
health, wellness, and human services.
FISCAL IMPACT: Proceeds of $7,518.20 were received for nineteen (19) deeds, which included plot sales,
documentary stamp taxes, and recording fees. One of the deeds is a Claimed Pre-Need. Plot sale receipts are deposited
in General Fund (0001), Immokalee Cemetery Cost Center 122370.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT IMPACT: There is no Growth Management Impact on the County’s long-range
planning effort.
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS: This item is approved as to form and legality, and requires a majority vote for Board
approval – SAA
RECOMMENDATIONS: To authorize the Chairman to execute Deed Certificates for purchased burial rights at Lake
Trafford Memorial Gardens Cemetery and authorize the County Manager or designee to take all actions necessary to
record the Deed Certificates with the Clerk of Court’s Recording Department.
PREPARED BY: Vivian Rodriguez, Property Acquisition Specialist, Operations & Performance Management Division
ATTACHMENTS:
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