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Review City Facility Naming Policy and Discuss Process for Renaming Jackson Park (20 minutes)
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To: Honorable Chair and Members of the Recreation and Park Commission
From: Amy Wooldridge, Recreation and Parks Director
Re: Review City Facility Naming Policy and Discuss Process for Renaming Jackson Park.
BACKGROUND
At its April 12, 2018 meeting, the Recreation and Parks Commission received two Written Communications related to naming or re-naming parks. One was a request to rename Jackson Park to Justice Park. The second was to name a new, yet-to-be-built park at Alameda Landing Waterfront, to Bohol Circle Park.
The Commission directed staff to bring a review of the existing City Facility Naming Policy and clarifications on the policy's direction to rename a facility.
Exhibit 1 is the City Council adopted 2016 policy for Naming City Property Facilities. The sections that are pertinent to parks are highlighted. This policy was updated from the 2007 policy recently provided to the Commission and the differences are within the street naming section, which is unrelated and does not impact this discussion.
DISCUSSION
New Park Naming
Per the policy, it is the responsibility of the Recreation and Parks Commission, as the representative of Alameda residents in matters concerning parks, to review requests and considerations for naming a new park. The Recreation and Parks Commission is responsible for naming of all city parks, swim centers, boat ramps and other associated recreation facilities. The Commission's recommendation for a name is then made to the City Council for final approval. The most recently named park was Jean Sweeney Open Space Park.
Regarding the request to name the Alameda Landing Waterfront Park, Bohol Circle Park, the Commission has at least three options for its next steps:
1) Select a subcommittee, or delegate to staff, to solicit additional information from Bohol Circle regarding their organization and the reasons for...
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