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File Number: 18-012 African American Business Council, and approval of the South Area Development Plan. Subsequent to her service on the City Council, Ms. Grant has remained deeply involved in San Leandro in a volunteer capacity. Highlights of this work include serving as chairperson of a working group that produced the 2013 Local Inclusion Policy, actively participating in the Unity in the Community effort, assisting with the public outreach component of the City’s most recent General Plan update, serving on the Board of Directors of the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce, and serving as a community representative on various recruitment panels. Ms. Grant has also served on the City’s Redevelopment Successor Agency Oversight Board since 2012. Previous City Council, Committee, and Commission Actions At the October 17, 2016 City Council meeting, former councilmember Ursula Reed made a motion that the City Council consider naming a City-owned entity after Surlene Grant. At the December 19, 2016 meeting, Councilmember Reed made a subsequent motion that City Council consider renaming Joaquin Plaza to Surlene Grant Plaza. As required by the Administrative Code, former councilmember Reed’s motion was approved by the full council to consider renaming a public facility or structure after Surlene Grant, and the matter was referred to the Rules Committee. Staff subsequently conducted a review of the Administrative Code to determine the appropriate procedures for naming a City facility in her honor. At the September 25, 2017 Rules Committee meeting, staff provided background information on San Leandro’s history of naming or renaming structures and facilities after a former elected or prominent San Leandro citizen. In 2002, the City Council adopted an administrative policy which established formal procedures to name or rename facilities in San Leandro. Chapter 10 of the San Leandro Administrative Code (“the Code”), requires the City Council to make a motion directing the Rules Committee to review any requested name change. Upon review and determination of the Rules Committee, the request moves forward to the appropriate Board or Commission for further review and thereafter the Board or Commission recommendation is reported to the full City Council. The Code does not specify which Board or Commission should review these proposals; however, staff and the Rules Committee determined that the Library-Historical Commission was the most appropriate body in this instance given that the naming serves as a reflection of the historical significance of an individual. The Code recognizes that requests for the naming or renaming of facilities most often occur after the death of a prominent citizen; however, the Code does not preclude the naming or renaming of facilities or structures ante mortem. As such, the Code allows recognition be provided to a prominent living citizen whose accomplishments and contributions to the community clearly demonstrate a commitment over and beyond what would be normally associated with the performance of their work. Per Section 1.10.110 of the Code, the individual for whom a facility is to be named (or renamed) must have been one of the following: 1. Long term resident of the community or owner of a business in the community who has made significant, notable and tangible contributions to the facility or property in question or to the San Leandro community at large; or 2. Elected official or employee of the City whose accomplishments and contributions to the community clearly demonstrate a commitment over and beyond that which would otherwise Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 1/9/2018