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Chris Swope H
Lansing City Clerk
MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor Andy Schor and Jim Smiertka, City Attorney
FROM: Chris Swope, City Clerk
SUBJECT: Dissolution Recommendations for the Memorial Review Board
DATE: APRIL 26, 2018
For your consideration, I have a few recommendations regarding how the function of the
Memorial Review Board could effectively be delegated amongst other existing City
boards and commissions and a process to receive and review requests.
With my office having staffed the board for over a decade and having been involved
with these challenging issues, I want to share a proposal.
Memorial Review Board Summary of Applications
Going back to 2007, approximately 73% of memorial applications were to name or
rename public spaces, primarily parks and park accessories such as benches,
dugouts, and memorial markers.
The other 27% of applications have been to change the names of streets, bridges
and buildings.
Proposed Process for Application Review
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5
Application Clerk refers Board/ Mayor makes City Council
for Naming to appropriate Commission recommendation to Approval or
and City board/ studies and Council for streets, Denial of
Renaming commission makes parks, buildings. streets,
submitted to recommendation Mayor Approval or parks,
Clerk's Office to Mayor. Denial of other buildings.
items.*
The new process would assign the application to the appropriate board to review
depending on the city property to be named. Lansing City Clerk would be responsible
for that referral.
Property under the purview of the Parks Board such as parks, park benches, athletic
fields, playground equipment would be referred to the Park Board.
Most other city property such as streets and bridges would be referred to the Board
of Public Service.
Whether these referrals would already be preset into the new ordinance is up for
Mayor and Council consideration.
Thank you for your consideration. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me
know.
* Other items which would be approved or denied by the Mayor without Council action
may include bridges, rooms, ballfields within parks, etc.