94-12RESOLUTION NO. 94-12
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF CLEARWATER
FLORIDA, ESTABLISHING A NEW POLICY AND
PROCEDURE TO BE UTILIZED IN NAMING NEW CITY
PARKS; RESCINDING RESOLUTION 08-82 ON THE SAME
SUBJECT; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of Clearwater,
Florida, desires to revise the policy and procedure for naming City
parks; and
WHEREAS, the current policy and procedure was established by
Resolution No. 80-82, adopted August 7, 1980; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF CLEARWATER, FLORIDA;
Section 1 - The following policy and procedure is hereby
adopted for naming city parks:
a. Any person recommending a name for a park will
first complete a form "Proposal for Park Name," to
be provided by the Parks and Recreation Department.
Each proposal shall be submitted to the Parks and
Recreation Board.
b. The Parks and Recreation Board will not consider
any requests to rename existing parks.
c. The Board will not consider any requests to name
recreation facilities such as tennis courts,
basketball courts, or ballfields, that are located
within parks.
d. Each park to be named will be evaluated on the
following criteria.
* Neighborhood homeowners associations will be
contacted with considering name for parks
located in their neighborhoods.
* Persons serving on the Parks and Recreation
Board, another City board, or on the City
Commission will not be eligible to have a park
named after them during their tenure of
office.
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* Ordinarily, parks will be named after
subdivisions, geographic locations, or
streets.
* In the event the park property is donated, the
donor will be allowed to priviledge of
submitting a preference for a name.
* Parks may be named in honor of an individual;
however, this should occur only on rare
occasions and the individual should have given
lengthy civic service to the Clearwater
community, and the individual should be of
local importance rather than of State or
National prominence.
e. A survey may be required of homeowners living
around the park to receive their opinion of a
proposed name.
f. The Parks and Recreation Board will conduct an
advertised public hearing for each proposal.
g. Based on the criteria contained in paragraph d.
and on information received fromt he public
hearing, the Parks and Recreation Board shall
formulate a recommendation on the proposed name and
shall provide the recommendation to the City
Commission for a final decision.
Section 2. Resolution No. 80-82 is hereby repealed.