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Meeting Date:
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5/25/2017 - 6:00 PM
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Category:
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New Business and Reports to the Board
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Type:
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Info/Action
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Subject:
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Request to Name ACPS Central Office Finance Conference Room in Honor of Linda Diaz-Paz
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Objective 2.3 Community Engagement ACPS will actively engage families, students, staff, and community members regarding school programs and activities, volunteer opportunities, and events.
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Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
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File Attachment:
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Agenda Item Summary:
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Linda Diaz-Paz was a beloved budget analyst in the ACPS Department of Financial Services for fifteen (15) years. Always cheerful and welcoming, Linda’s work and dedication to ACPS consistently exceeded expectations. She went the extra mile for ACPS and its students, and was a friend to all who knew her. She was also an ACPS parent, avid volunteer, team manager for Alexandria Soccer Association, Cub Scout Den Leader, and enthusiastic fundraiser for the “Pennies for Patients” spare change donation drive through MacArthur Elementary School.
Although Linda passed away suddenly in October 2016, she has not been forgotten. Her impact is still felt throughout ACPS, from Central Office where she worked with a wide array of staff on their departmental budgets, to the many school buildings where she assisted principals and staff in managing their operating, school nutrition, and grants and special projects funds. Her colleagues, including residents and non-residents of Alexandria City alike, feel that it is right and proper to permanently honor her by naming the Central Office finance conference room the Linda Diaz-Paz Conference Room and request that the School Board form an ad hoc facilities naming committee to consider their request.
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Background:
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The School Board may, at its discretion, entertain requests from one or more residents of the City of Alexandria to name existing “school facilities,” defined by School Board Policy FF: Public Dedication of Facilities as “schools, school administration buildings, rooms, fields, grounds, or any portions or areas thereof.” To do so, 100 signatures of Alexandria City residents must be collected (see attached). The School Board may then appoint an ad hoc facilities naming committee to consider the merits of the request. The committee will forward its recommendation through the Superintendent to the Board for consideration and action.
Policy FF allows existing school facilities to be named “in honor of any person, business, or corporation that has made an exceptional and extraordinary contribution to a particular school, school program, or to the school division as a whole; provided, however, that any individual person or persons for whom an existing school or school facility is to be named or renamed shall no longer be actively serving Alexandria City Public Schools.” As a long-time, dedicated ACPS employee and parent whose intelligence, generosity of spirit and dedication have left an indelible mark on the ACPS community, Linda Diaz-Paz had precisely the kind of impact that the school division, through Policy FF, seeks to honor.
Unlike the clearly defined ad hoc committee required when naming new facilities, Policy FF does not specify the composition of the ad hoc committee when naming an existing facility. It merely requires “significant representation from residents of the attendance zone for the facility being considered for renaming.” ACPS enrolls students from across the division in its adult education program and at its T.C. Williams satellite campus, both located at Central Office. The facility does not have an assigned attendance zone. Therefore, the Superintendent proposes the following roster of nine (9) citizens and staff to make up an ad hoc committee for this request, the majority of whom reside in the same zip code as Central Office (22314). The remainder reside in the adjoining zip codes (22301 and 22302).
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Recommendation:
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The Superintendent recommends that the School Board consider naming the ACPS Central Office finance conference room as the Linda Diaz-Paz Conference Room by approving the Superintendent’s proposed roster of citizens and staff to form an ad hoc facilities naming committee as required by Policy FF.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Final-Clerk of the Board - Proxy
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Vote Results:
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| Original Motion | | Member Karen Graf Moved, Member Cindy Anderson seconded to approve the Original motion 'The Superintendent recommends that the School Board consider naming the ACPS Central Office finance conference room as the Linda Diaz-Paz Conference Room by approving the Superintendent’s proposed roster of citizens and staff to form an ad hoc facilities naming committee as required by Policy FF.'. Upon a Roll-Call Vote being taken, the vote was: Aye: 9 Nay: 0. | | The motion Carried 9 - 0 | | | | | Ronnie Campbell | Yes | | William E. Campbell | Yes | | Karen Graf | Yes | | Christopher J. Lewis | Yes | | Ramee A. Gentry | Yes | | Henry E. Cardwell | Yes | | Margaret Lorber | Yes | | Cindy Anderson | Yes | | Veronica R. Nolan | Yes | |
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