R2024-337 Resolution Designating Honorary Street Name in Honor of Jerry Pelz

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Honorary Street Designation Application As a means to honor individuals, organizations, entities and events that have had a significant lineage to the City or a significant cultural, historical, or humanitarian impact on the community, the City of Decatur shall establish an Honorary Street Naming Sign program as described below. All honorary street name signs shall comply with the guidelines of this program and honorary street name signs shall not have the effect of changing platted street names or official addresses. 1. Policy: • Criteria required for an honorary street name designation: o Honorary street name designations should be limited to individuals, organizations, entities, and events that either had a significant lineage to the City or had a significant cultural, historical, or humanitarian impact on the City as determined by the Decatur City Council. o An honoree must have a geographical relationship to the requested sign location, having either lived or worked or performed other actions or activities in the area deemed to have been important to the City of Decatur. o Applicants shall be required to submit an application form to the City of Decatur's Economic & Community Development providing details as to the proposed honoree's lineage or cultural, historical or humanitarian impact on the city and an explanation of the honoree's relationship to the requested honorary street sign location as part of the application process. Individual letters of support are encouraged and should be attached to the application. o Applications shall be reviewed by a five (5) member panel consisting of one(1) member of the Decatur City Council, one(1) member from the Economic & Community Development Department, one (1)member from an authorized city neighborhood organization, one(1) member from the Decatur Police Department and one(1)member appointed from the community at large. Applications will be forwarded to the Mayor and Decatur City Council and scheduled for a vote only upon an affirmative panel recommendation or if a majority of the Decatur City Council calls for it. The request will be considered"denied pon a negative panel recommendation or if the majority of the Decatur City Council does not call for an application to be brought forward within 30 days of said panel recommendation being issued. o Current city employees are not eligible for an honorary street naming designation. o The City shall cause letters to be sent to residents and/or businesses in the vicinity of the proposed honorary designation in advance notifying them that an honorary April 2022