Agenda 11/10/2025 Item #16B 2 (Chair to execute twenty (20) Deed Certificates for purchased burial rights at Lake Trafford Memorial Gardens Cemetery)11/10/2025
Item # 16.B.2
ID# 2025-3729
Executive Summary
Recommendation to authorize the Chair 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 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, including 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 $7,786 were received for twenty (20) deeds, consisting of $7,500 for plot sales and
$286 for doc stamps and recording fees. Plot sale receipts are deposited in General Fund (0001), Immokalee Cemetery
Cost Center 122370.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT IMPACT: There is no 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
RECOMMENDATION(S): To authorize the Chair to execute Deed Certificates for purchased Lot and Block 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.
PREPARED BY: Vivian Rodriguez, Property Acquisition Specialist, Operations & Performance Management Division
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Deeds - (20)
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