CC RESOLUTION 4247RESOLUTION NO. 4247
A RESOLUTION OF THE EL SEGUNDO CITY COUNCIL
ADOPTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR NAMING AND
DEDICATING CITY FACILITIES.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of El Segundo as follows:
SECTION 1: The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A. Naming City buildings, parks, and other facilities serves a public interest by
recognizing important landmarks, locations, or persons. This assists the
public not only in identifying and visiting these places, but also promotes
civic pride.
B. In order to facilitate that manner in which public facilities may be named, the
City Council believes that it should set forth the guidelines for identifying
facilities that should be named and the manner in which names may be
selected.
SECTION 2: The public facilities affected by this Resolution are as follows:
A. Buildings: City -owned facilities used for City administration or other City
business. Such facilities include, without limitation, the Civic Center, City
Council Chambers, Police Facility, Fire Facility and Communications Center
and Library.
B. Support Facilities: City -owned facilities that support field operations. Support
facilities include, without limitation, the corporation yard and water and
wastewater pump stations.
C. Parks: City -owned facilities utilized as recreation or open space sites and trail
areas. Park sites included developed and undeveloped park areas, designated
open space areas and park amenities.
D. Recreation Facilities and Amenities: City -owned facilities used primarily for
sports, recreation and leisure activities, including, without limitation, the
Joslyn Center, swim stadium, aquatic facilities, teen center, roller hockey rink,
skate park, beach property, athletic fields, tennis/basketball/handball courts,
lawn bowling space, community centers, gazebos and meeting rooms.
SECTION 3: City facilities will be named pursuant to the following guidelines:
A. Names given to facilities will provide easy and recognizable references for
City residents, corporate citizens and other visitors. Such names should
generally reflect the facility's geographic location (such as a major street,
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location, neighborhood) or the City's name if the facility serves the entire
population.
B. hi certain, unusual, circumstances, where names reflecting the geographical
location or the City are unworkable, names may reflect topography, notable
flora, or historical precedent. Under extraordinary circumstances,
consideration may be given to naming facilities after significant personages
who made prominent contributions to the City's community.
SECTION 4: Facilities will be dedicated as follows:
A. After a recommendation from the Recreation & Parks Commission on the
name for a particular facility, the City Council will take action to dedicate that
facility at a regularly scheduled meeting.
B. Following the City Council's action, the City Manager, or designee, will
install a plaque on the facility which includes the following:
1. Facility name;
2. Dedication date;
3. Names of all city councilmembers at the time of the conception design
and dedication;
4. Names of the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tern at the time of the conception
design and dedication;
5. Name of the City Manager at the time of the dedication and the name
of the City Manager in office when the project was budgeted;
6. Name of the Department Head primarily responsible for operating the
facility at the time of the dedication; and
7. Additional information determined by City Council action at the time
of naming the facility.
C. If a plaque currently exists on a building or facility being named or dedicated,
that plaque will be retained and appropriately displayed.
SECTION 5: The City may name facilities using private funding on the following basis:
A. The Recreation & Parks Commission may consider requests by residents or
business enterprises located within the City to name public facility.
B. The Recreation & Parks Commission will consider these requests as follows:
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1. The request will specifically state how such naming complies with
Section 3 of this Resolution;
2. The proposal will include a funding mechanism to offset the City's
cost of installing and maintaining a plaque or other form of naming the
facility;
C. The costs of installing and maintaining the plaque, or other form of memorial,
will be established by the City Manager, or designee.
SECTION 6: The City Manager, or designee, is directed to implement this Resolution
through administrative policies and procedures.
SECTION 7: The City Clerk is directed to certify the passage and adoption of this
Resolution; enter same in the book of original Resolutions; and make a Minute of its
adoption in the City's records and in the Minutes of the meeting when it was adopted.
SECTION 8: This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption and
will remain effective unless repealed or superseded.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of March 2002.
MikcYGJrdon, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Cindy MorUsen, City Clerk
APPROVED
Mark D. Hen
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Karl H. Berger,
Assistant City
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said
City is five; that the foregoing resolution, being RESOLUTION NO. 4247 was duly
passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said
City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said
Council held on the 6th day of March 2002, and the same was so passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Gordon, Jacobs, Gaines, McDowell, Wernick
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTENTION: None
NOT PARTICIPATING: None
WITNESS MY HAND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this
March .2002.
Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk
Of the City of El Segundo,
California
(SEAL)
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