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Approved as amended 2/8/09

Recommendation from Care and Counsel to Mt. Toby Meeting for Business

February 8, 2009

Care and Counsel recommends that Mt Toby Meeting establish an Ad Hoc Committee on Burial.

A. The Committee would be charged with the review of all aspects of burial at Mt. Toby. The purposes of The Committee would include:

1. To determine whether burial vaults are presently required by the Meeting and, if so, discern whether to lay down this requirement;

2. To determine whether "green burial" should be an option;

3. To consider the physical layout of the current burial ground and, where advisable, recommend changes;

4. To consider the current system of record-keeping and, where advisable, recommend changes;

5. To review written materials concerning burial at Mt. Toby Meeting and, where advisable, recommend changes;

6. To consider other concerns as may arise in the course of the Committee's investigation.

B. The membership of The Committee would include :

John Foster and Frank Gatti, members of Care and Counsel;

Carol Coan and Susan Reyes, of Mt. Toby Meeting, who have studied these issues.

C. The Committee would serve for up to one year and, within that period , report its recommendations to the Meeting.

From minutes of Care and Counsel meeting on December 16, 2008.