SPS Policy Manual - Saginaw Public Schools

Section 4000 – Business Management/Facilities Management
4750 Naming of Facilities 4750
Whenever a new District facility is approved by the Board, immediate steps will be taken
to name the facility. The Board may name existing facilities after a staff or community member
after one year following a person’s leaving the District through retirement or the person’s death.
The person being nominated should be someone who had dedicated themselves to a lifelong
pursuit of advancing educational excellence through their dedication to the students of the school
District.
Naming a New Facility
The naming of a new school facility is to be handled through the Board appointment of a
committee consisting of at least one Board member, two members from the community, a
student, a teacher, and an administrator. The committee shall solicit and consider names for the
facility and submit a list of not less than three recommended names to the full Board for their
consideration. The Board should make the final selection from a list submitted by the committee.
Every effort should be made to name a new facility prior to the beginning of construction. That
timetable should be established in at attempt to accomplish this objective. In general, the Board
should refrain from naming a facility after an individual who is living or who has been deceased
less than one year. The Board should not be influenced in its decision by personal bias or
favoritism, political pressure, temporary popularity, or highly emotional situations in choosing
names for school facilities or portions thereof.
Naming a Space in Honor of a Past Employee or Community Member
When naming portions of a facility or a specific room after a former staff member who is
retired a minimum of one year from District service or a distinguished community member, the
Board will receive proposals from interested staff or community members. The proposal would
need to outline the individual’s accomplishments in promoting educational excellence in their
career or contact with students of Saginaw Public Schools. The Board Buildings and Grounds
committee is to receive the proposals and to review said proposals and deliberate over the naming
of a space within a facility or a specific room a minimum of three times before the committee
makes a final decision to make a recommendation to the full Board for adoption.
The Board of Education reserves the right to remove an individual’s name for the space
designation for anyone who might be found to have disgraced or in any way brought unnecessary
adverse criticism to the District due to their actions. Such action would be taken by the
committee in recommending such action to the full Board in public session. The Board is to
receive the recommendation from the committee and must deliberate the committee’s
recommendation over a minimum of two separate meetings before said action would be finalized.
Approved:
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF SAGINAW