AGENDA REPORT
REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL ACTION
DATE: 8/15/2018
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Library and Recreation Services Department
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City Council consideration to adopt Resolution No. 2018-103 dedicating the ballfield at Eagle Glen Park as "Remembrance Field" and authorizing the placement of a plaque near the field commemorating members of the Corona community who lost their lives at the Route 91 Harvest Musical Festival in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017.
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
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That the City Council consideration to adopt Resolution No. 2018-103 dedicating the ballfield at Eagle Glen Park as "Remembrance Field" and authorizing the placement of a plaque near the field commemorating members of the Corona community who lost their lives at the Route 91 Harvest Musical Festival in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017.
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ANALYSIS:
The Library and Recreation Services Department received a request to name the ball field at Eagle Glen Park in honor of two community members killed as a result of the worst mass shooting in American history, which occurred on October 1st at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival in Las Vegas. This request does not meet the criteria set forth in Administrative Policy 06400.0001 (City Property Naming Rights and Honorary Naming). Specifically, honorees under the Honorary Naming policy must be deceased for a minimum of five years.
However, given the national scope of the tragedy and its local impact-more than 800 people injured and 58 killed, including four members of the Corona community-the Public Services Committee approved for consideration by the full City Council dedication of the Eagle Glen Ballfield in honor of all those who died on October 1, 2017.
Since the ballfield will be dedicated as "Remembrance Field" it will not be named after an individual, family, business, non-profit organization, or other community group or organization as provided for in AP 06400....
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