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City manager proposes honorarium policy to handle requests to rename streets; council to consider later
Summary
City Manager Rosalind Oglesby presented a draft policy for honorary street naming after a resident petition to rename E Street for Bishop Stephen Douglas Willis Sr.; the proposed policy would create a five-year honorarium plaque option with a $400 fee and lay out petition and notice requirements for full renaming requests.
City Manager Rosalind Oglesby told the Franklin City Council on Jan. 13 she had drafted a policy to guide requests to rename streets or create honorary designations after the city received a resident petition to honor Bishop Stephen Douglas Willis Sr.
Oglesby said the city lacks a current code provision or comprehensive-plan language governing street renaming and that a memorandum from 2019 recommended adding a code chapter but no change was enacted. As an interim approach,…
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