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Council asks staff to study scholarship and naming options; directs criteria research
Summary
After months of ad hoc honors and seat dedications, the council directed staff to research a city-linked scholarship option and to return with policy options and qualifying criteria for rare, ad hoc honors and naming recognition, including consideration of council comments and existing naming policies.
The Thousand Oaks City Council unanimously directed staff to research and evaluate a possible scholarship program and to return with suggested policy options and qualifying criteria for limited naming recognitions and honors.
Deputy Cultural and Community Services Director Melissa Hurtado reviewed existing recognition mechanisms: seat dedications in the council chamber (a practice dating to 1984), philanthropic naming opportunities at the Civic Arts Plaza that fund the plaza endowment, certificates and commendations issued by the mayor and the city’s street-renaming process (which requires an application fee and signatures from 80 percent of…
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