Dunedin's Municipal Chambers and Dunedin Centre should soon have three newly named rooms, as spaces in the complex are transformed or created as part of an upgrade.
Councillors have been given ideas from Dunedin's sister cities, past mayors, Maori names and the city's heritage features to consider for the names.
Work on the renovation of the Municipal Chambers was completed earlier this year and is part of a wider $45.8 million Dunedin Centre and town hall upgrade.
Council property manager Robert Clark said yesterday the rest of the work on those buildings was still on track for completion on December 15 next year, and for operation in February 2013.
The town hall complex subcommittee will meet today to consider a report from council policy analyst Tami Sargeant.
The report recommended the names of eight rooms, including the Glenroy Auditorium and the Clifford Skeggs Gallery, remain as they were.
Three rooms, though, required new names.
The former city property office in the Municipal Chambers is now a conference room, and the former Hungry Frenchman restaurant space on the floor below is an extended part of the Glenroy foyer.
On the third floor of the Dunedin Centre, the council is building a function area on what was roof space.
Sister city names included Edinburgh in Scotland, Otaru in Japan, Shanghai in China and Portsmouth in the United States. The first two were already used, though the latter two were not.
Mayors could include anyone from the first mayor of Dunedin, William Mason, who served from 1865 to 1867, to the recently deceased Richard Walls, who was mayor from 1989 to 1995 and was involved more recently in the decision-making on the upgrade of the buildings.
Maori names included Araiteuru, the canoe that bought the Ngai Tahu people south; Owheo, the Maori word for the Water of Leith; or Whakaari, the Maori word for Flagstaff, the report said.
Heritage features that could be used included the Water of Leith, the albatross or William Chambers, who was reportedly responsible for naming Dunedin.
