The Charleston City Council Tuesday will dedicate the amphitheater of Kiwanis Park, located at the corner of Division Street and Jackson Avenue, in the name of local leader and community member John Daum.

The council will meet at 5:15 p.m. to allow council members time to attend Red, White & Blue Days celebrations and will also discuss a resolution to approve prevailing wage rates for contracted city employees.

The Kiwanis Park amphitheater will be renamed “Daum Amphitheater” in honor of 83-year-old John Daum, Mayor John Inyart said.

Daum served on the Charleston Parks and Recreation Advisory Board from Aug. 21, 1990, to June 20, 2012, resigning due to health reasons, said Brian Jones, recreation director of the Charleston Parks and Recreation Advisory Board.

Daum also directed the Charleston High School band and taught music from 1962 to 1988. He established the Charleston community band in 1977 and led and directed the band until April 2012, said Susan Bartling, Daum’s daughter.

The community band is a group of area residents from junior high through adulthood who practice together and perform regularly at Kiwanis Park during the summer, said Ginger Stanfield, current director of the Charleston community band.

A dedication ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. July 5 at the Kiwanis Park amphitheater prior to the Charleston community band’s last performance of the season at 7:30 p.m., said Jones. Daum and family members will be in attendance.

“He’s a sweet guy who deserves all the accolades that we can give him,” said Stanfield, who was assistant director of the Charleston community band from 1978 until Daum stepped down this year.

Bartling said her father and her family are honored that Daum’s accomplishments in trying to bring music into the community will be honored.

“It means a lot to our family,” she said. “He has kicked butt and given everything.”

The council will also discuss a resolution to approve prevailing wage rates for Fiscal Year 2013.

Prevailing wage rates are the hourly pay rates Charleston must pay to workers the city contracts, Inyart said.

“When we have a public job which public dollars are used on, people we hire to do that work…have to pay their people based on this prevailing wage,” he explained.

Prevailing wages are determined for each trade and occupation the city might contract workers for based on the pay rates set by local unions, Inyart said.

“We have to, as a matter of record, put that dollar amount on file for each job classification once a year,” Inyart said.

Tim Deters can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].