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City Council Meeting 3 -13 -07
Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NUMBER 10202 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
GOVERNING THE PLACEMENT OF MEMORIALS AND TRIBUTES IN CITY PARKS
WHEREAS, the City's parks promote the general health and welfare by providing
opportunities for active recreation and the passive enjoyment of nature and its
restorative powers; and
WHEREAS, the City's parks are scarce and shared resources which must be
preserved and enhanced in ways that benefit the entire community; and
WHEREAS, members of the public wish to commemorate or pay tribute to loved
ones by supporting parks and open spaces and by memorializing their loved ones in
parks and open spaces; and
WHEREAS, the Recreation and Parks Commission has recommended a policy
which will permit members of the public to fulfill these wishes, protect shared use and
enjoyment of the parks, and generate revenue for park, beach and open space
improvements which will benefit the entire community; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to adopt the policy which will facilitate
commemorations and thereby generate revenue but also protect the aesthetics of parks
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and open spaces and ensure that they, and the amenities they include, serve the
general welfare; and
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. A commemoration program is hereby established whereby
members of the public may pay tribute to others through donations used to support the
enhancement of public open spaces in Santa Monica.
SECTION 2. The program shall include the provision of special tribute
certificates to all persons who make a minimum contribution of $25 to the City for use in
funding open space improvements.
SECTION 3. The commemoration program shall include the opportunity for
community members to donate the total cost of the City acquiring and installing open
space amenities, such as benches or water fountains, which the City has previously
identified and listed as necessary or desirable. Donors who contribute the total cost of
acquiring and installing an amenity of significant value will be acknowledged with a
plaque; other donors will receive a special tribute certificate. For purposes of this
program, a significant amenity shall be one valued at more than $750.00. This amount
effectuates the goals of facilitating commemorations, protecting and enhancing open
space aesthetics, and generating revenue for needed open space amenities.
SECTION 4.The commemoration program shall also include the opportunity for
community members to donate the total cost of acquiring, planting and caring for a new
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tree in a public open space. Donations of trees will be acknowledged with a special
tribute certificate. Donations of trees planted in streetscapes or park improvements
specifically designed for plaque holders will be acknowledged with plaques.
SECTION 5. In order to implement this program, City staff shall formulate
regulations Those regulations shall, among other things: (a) insure that the selection
and placement of all public improvements, including trees and park amenities, is made
solely at the City's discretion and solely for the purpose of promoting the general health
and welfare rather than individual preferences; (b) make clear that plaques are
available on a limited basis and only in conjunction with the total funding of either a tree
in an area designed for plaques or an open space amenity which meets the threshold of
"significant" and which the City has determined, in its sole discretion, will enhance a
public space by benefiting the public; (c) establish standard designs for plaques and
standardized options for the language appearing on them; (d) require City staff to
maintain and publicize a list of needed open space amenities which may be funded
through the commemoration program and specify which items on the list have a
significant value; and (e) ensure that the City maintains complete discretion and control
over the selection and placement of all plantings and other amenities in its open spaces,
including the right to relocate or remove any amenity.
SECTION 6. City Council Resolution Number 8758 (CCS) is hereby repealed.
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SECTION 73he City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and
thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
MARSHA JO1E
Cit MOUTRIE
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Adopted and approved this 20th day of March, 2007.
Richard Bloom, Mayor
I, Denise Anderson - Warren, Acting City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 10202 (CCS) was duly adopted at a
meeting of the Santa Monica City Council held on the 20th day of March, 2007, by the
following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Holbrook, McKeown, O'Connor, Shriver
Mayor Pro Tern Katz, Mayor Bloom,
Noes: Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: Genser
ATTEST:
Denise Anderson - Warren, Acting City Clerk