{"id":46547,"date":"2023-09-07T14:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=46547"},"modified":"2023-09-07T14:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:13:11","slug":"holden-adopts-naming-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/09\/07\/holden-adopts-naming-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Holden adopts naming policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><em>By Ken Cleveland<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Landmark Correspondent<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">HOLDEN \u2014 After extensive discussion and many revisions, the town has a building naming policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adopted at the Aug. 21 Board of Selectmen\u2019s meeting, the policy details the criteria for honoring a person by naming a town building after them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The effort began after a proposal to name the senior center was brought forward by the Council on Aging, which sought to name the building after a former director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Selectmen at that time wanted to develop a process that would ensure a name applied to a building would be one worthy of recognition over time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board members agreed that anyone honored should meet at least one of several criteria, but must meet a key one: \u201cThe honoree must meet compelling and exceptional facts that justify permanent recognition and at least one other,\u201d Chair Stephanie Mulroy said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board also added an eighth criterion that requires a three-year wait before a person can be reconsidered for such an honor if they are proposed and fail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Selectman Anthony Renzoni noted that that way, a person could not be nominated repeatedly for different buildings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The board members agreed on the policy, noting that the process should be difficult.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe purpose is to keep a building name that is almost sacred,\u201d Mulroy said. \u201cThe vetting will be important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt should be almost impossible; you have to do a lot to get a building named after you,\u201d Renzoni said. \u201cIt should come up infrequently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI know all the folks on the COA will be happy to hear there\u2019s a policy,\u201d Mulroy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ken Cleveland Landmark Correspondent HOLDEN \u2014 After extensive discussion and many revisions, the town has a building naming policy. Adopted at the Aug. 21 Board of Selectmen\u2019s meeting, the policy details the criteria for honoring a person by naming a town building after them. The effort began after a proposal to name the senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}