i am the executive director of the library users association. i am pleased to concern that thanks to efforts including research and assistance from attorneys, we were able to stop the paint out of the historic burkle heights -- bernal heights mural. it is a stay of execution good for 90 days and we ask that you do when you can to help make that stay permanent. the city in its haste to get rid of the mural, it is a wonderful merrill and i have shown pictures here before, simply did not follow the law which requires notice to be given to the artist or if the artist has died, to his heirs or personal representatives said they might have an opportunity to remove and save the work of fine arts. in speaking with people about this mural, people will say, was there not a process? that led to the decision? with regard to getting rid of the mural and replacing it with two murals that are brand new. we say yes, there was a process. it was not democratic and riddled with illegalities. the sunshine task force has found in six hearings on six separate complain

i am the executive director of the library users association. ased to say the library has now discovered it is subject to the california art preservation act, and has formally sent a letter, dated june 29, to the sister of the muralist, williams, who is his executor, and under the law is to be given written notice of the planned removal, so that she can arrange to have its save by removing it or herself removing it. there was a passionate believer in keeping all three sites of the branch library merrill, which the library and the city want to point out. it features working women, children, the u.n. at symbol, and history, all of which will be gone from the planned replacement. that was originally part of the community process that supervisor campos set up jointly in a letter with the mayor, and which we have had serious problems with. when we tried to find agendas, minutes, public meeting announcements, or recorded votes, we found none. when we asked for the supervisor pedophile, we got hundreds of pages that looked like this -- supervisor's mura

i am the executive director of library users association. i have two main points. the first is what the supervisors have done to the sunshine ordinance task force, and that is essentially to paralyze it, is really quite shameful, and it is something you should be moving most rapidly to repair. i want to talk about the library and using the overhead. in particular, i will talk about a specific misinformation that is outright misrepresentation with respect to how this got move forward. we talked about illegalities that the task force has found with the process in six separate hearings. now, i would like to just comment on the application that of the art project, jointly with the friends made for a community challenge grant only $50,000. what they did was, they presented a proposal for the library art project that contained a major and a substantive misrepresentation. after the very first sentence, it says, or originally painted in the early 1980's as a youth project. then it goes on to say, the existing year-old could not be restored -- existing mural could not be res

library users association. there is a train of plan destruction of a mural coming down the track, and library users along with manythis mural is the bernal heights branch library mural. i am going to be using some projecting, please. this mural has been up since 1980 to 1982 when a community process put it up, headed by arch williams, who was also a member of the haight-ashbury muralists. words are in spanish and english from songs on two sides. on the right side of the front are featured three pyramids -- a mexican pyramid, an egyptian pyramid, and the transamerica pyramid, with images of the united nations, children on the globe, and so on. the site features working women and hands clasped in friendship as well as a hot rod that the kids particularly wanted included. on the back wall is a history of the neighborhood, starting with native americans. all of this is scheduled for destruction october 1, and replacement by a very sanitized, bland product, which i am showing here. just whorl's and swirls on the left. nothing on the right front, and on the side, bits and pieces reminiscent. they should not happen, and