. >> i am peter warfield, executive director of library users association. we have been working for months to save a worthy and wonderful city asset, the bernal heights branch library mural, featuring a range of working women and musicians. scaffolding went up to prepare for a paint out that was supposed to start yesterday. luckily, we have found and alerted the city to a legal issue that we hope will provide at least a temporary stop. here is the merrill as it was a few weeks ago. this is before the scaffolding went up. this is the famous and chilean singer-songwriter. what is that going to be replaced by? no people. no words. on the side is a panel honoring working women. friendship and unity is to be replaced by this. on the back side, there has not been a decision made. we have heard a great deal about a community process that supposedly made a good decision about what would happen to the mural. when we asked supervisor composts for his files, we got heavily redacted material. none of it should have been redacted. the task force found that this was a vio

. >> good afternoon, i'm peter warfield, executive director of library users association and i will be asking for overhead. president chiu: the tv, please. >> beg your pardon? president chiu: i just called and asked for sfgov tv so you can use the overhead. >> thank you. president chiu: there it is. >> thanks to the efforts of the library users association research into the law and facts. the bernl heights library in mural has got an temporary that is a 90-day reprieve from being painted out. our research found that a law is in existence, the california art preservation act, and that requires that the artist, or if he or she has died for 50 years, the heirs and personal representives must be given the opportunity to remove the work and take it from where it stands. in the city's haste to destroy this mural and to get rid of it, it has not only neglected it and had a trail of illegalities in the process of having approvals and getting rid of it, but in this instance, it was ready the next day to remove this mural without having made the proper notification. and i certainly hope that sup

. >> i am peter warfield, executive director of library users association. we have been working for months to save a worthy and wonderful city asset, the bernal heights branch library mural, featuring a range of working women and musicians. scaffolding went up to prepare for a paint out that was supposed to start yesterday. luckily, we have found and alerted the city to a