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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. - 1 - * 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.