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San Francisco committee backs Bernal Heights memorial for Alex Nieto, adds maintenance requirement
Summary
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee voted to forward an ordinance directing Recreation and Park to install a memorial to Alex Nieto in Bernal Heights Park, adding language that the department will be responsible for maintenance; the full Board of Supervisors will consider the item on Dec. 13.
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee on Dec. 1 voted to send an ordinance to the full San Francisco Board of Supervisors that would direct the Recreation and Park Department to install a memorial to Alex Nieto at Bernal Heights Park and waive permit and inspection fees for the installation.
The measure, introduced by committee leadership with several cosponsors, was framed as a community request to acknowledge Nieto’s life and the family’s enduring trauma after he was shot and killed by San Francisco police on March 21, 2016. Committee members said the memorial is intended to support healing and community education while further work on the memorial’s design and fundraising proceeds.
Supervisor Campos, who…
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