The council is elected.
Unelect them...and perhaps the new council can hire the newly unemployed to maintain the cemetary.
Ref: my City Council. They flushed $230 Million down the crapper on their "downtown revitalization project". Almost nothing to show for it, two of them were up for reelection last November, and were voted right back into office.
When you reward stupidity, you get more stupidity.
They're under investigation by the FBI, but I can guess the outcome. You can't prosecute a politician for being stupid and incompetent.