Number
060656
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN
Title
An ordinance relating to official street renamings and honorary street namings involving the names of crime victims.
Analysis
This ordinance suspends the procedures for officially renaming a street or assigning an honorary street name whenever the proposed name is the name of a crime victim. A request to rename a street or assign an honorary street name to honor or memorialize a crime victim shall receive no further consideration. This ordinance shall be in effect until such time as the City has developed and adopted a policy on the use of crime victim names in official street renamings or honorary street namings.
Body
Whereas, Section 113-3 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinance provides procedures for changing official street names and for assigning honorary street names; and
Whereas, Section 113-3 does not address the possibility that the intent of an official street renaming or an honorary street naming may be to honor or memorialize a crime victim; and
Whereas, Each request for an official street renaming or an honorary street naming requires a significant commitment of City resources, particularly time spent by City staff, the Citizen Advisory Committee on the Naming of Public Buildings, Facilities and Streets, and the Common Council and its Public Works Committee in reviewing such request; and
Whereas, The Common Council finds that, because of the potential for a large number of requests to rename streets or assign honorary street names to honor or memorialize crime victims, it is prudent to suspend consideration of all street renaming or honorary street naming requests involving the names of crime victims until such time as the City has developed and adopted a policy on the use of crime victim names in official street renamings or honorary street namings; now, therefore
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. The provisions of s. 113-3 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances shall be suspended whenever the city clerk receives a request to rename a street or assign an honorary street name to honor or memorialize the victim of a crime. A request of this type shall receive no further consideration under s. 113-3.
Part 2. This ordinance shall be in effect until such time as the Common Council passes an ordinance amending s. 113-3 to establish a policy on the use of crime victim names in official street renamings or honorary street namings.
LRB
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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Legislative Reference Bureau
Date:______________________
Attorney
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE
IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE
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Office of the City Attorney
Date:______________________
Requestor
Drafter
LRB06457-1
JOD
09/06/2006