 Tompkins
County Administrative Policy Manual |
Section : 01-32 ADMINISTRATION |
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DESIGNATION NAME OF COUNTY SPACE/ITEM
| Objective: | Naming County owned buildings, rooms, roads and other facilities and material items. | Policy Number | 01-32 | |
| Reference:(Laws both state and local) | Effective Date | November 8, 2000, Res 236 Modified: December 2004; May 2005 |
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| Policy Statement: | The authority for officially naming County-owned buildings, rooms, roads, and other facilities and material items (e.g., podium, gavel, bench, garden, collection) rests with the County Legislature. County property shall generally be named in a manner that identifies the ownership and/or the intended use of the property. The gesture of honoring a specific individual at a certain point in time by naming something for him/her is a natural impulse, but as time passes the significance of/reason for such naming becomes forgotten; therefore such naming shall be the exception rather than the rule. County spaces/items already named are considered "grandfathered". |
Resolution # | 81 | |
| Procedure: | Department | Administration |
1. Requests for naming designation shall be made to the County Administrator and shall be referred to and reviewed by the committee of the County Legislature that deals with governmental operations/administration, which will be responsible for making a recommendation to the full County Legislature. The committee may request input from the appropriate program committee during the consideration of the naming request.
2. The following guidelines/standards will be used to consider naming requests.
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Only under exceptional circumstances will the County consider permanently naming a room or other County space to honor an individual or other entity. (This is a continuation of an unwritten policy.) The County Legislature is not obliged to act favorably on any such request, but only after due deliberation and consideration.
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Building names will be related to the service(s) provided therein, the function(s) the building serves, and/or the historical nature of the building insofar as possible.
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Facilities will not normally be named for commercial enterprises.
3. When considering the naming of a facility, space, or material item, the committee and full Legislature will utilize the following criteria:
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The significance of the individual's contribution to Tompkins County;
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The relationship between the individual's contribution and the nature of the facility/item to be named;
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Any naming shall contain a review provision and be reexamined after 10 years at which time the name may be continued or changed.
Note: If the request
comes from staff or a department and the committee decides the request
does not meet the criterion of countywide importance, the staff of the
affected department may informally name something for its own internal
use.
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