Renaming Avenida Cesar Chavez

Asked the city to choose names that inspire the community and to seek public input, supported removing the Chavez name, and suggested 'Avenida Comunidad.' She also cautioned that street renames affect tax rolls, voter records, and insurance based on her own street's experience.

A San Juan Bautista council member speaking for herself, she said she believes survivors and that Chavez's alleged actions overshadow the good he did; supported removing the name.

Read a statement from an anonymous survivor, honored the broader farmworker movement leaders, and said the name should be removed — 'acknowledging the truth is not erasing history.'

CEO of Youth Alliance, she stood with Dolores Huerta and survivors and recommended immediately renaming the street for Dolores Huerta with community input, noting no federal or California holiday honors a woman.

A lifelong campesino, he strongly opposed changing the name, saying Chavez liberated farmworkers and that removing the name 'de-historifies' the community.

An educator, he supported removing the name but opposed naming the street after another individual, favoring names that uplift the movement and community rather than putting people on pedestals.

Daughter of the labor camp manager on South Side Road, she described a childhood encounter in which Chavez touched her inappropriately, said her family's camp kitchen burned after they ejected him, and said seeing his name on streets makes her cringe.

Said a lot of good and a lot of bad was done, supported taking the name off the road, suggested reverting to Union Road because of its union-district history, and recommended staying away from naming roads after people.

A legal process server whose family worked the fields, she expressed sympathy for all involved and asked Councilmember Resendiz to recuse himself from the vote, citing a restraining order situation.